Community service for avrech who forgot child in vehicle causing death

Two years after the unfortunate incident where the 4 year old child Chanoch Henich Baumel z"l died, Ramle Magistrate's Court sentenced to six months of community service for the scholar Nachman Shtizer who had forgotten the boy in his car and that caused his death.

The scholar Nachman Shtizer, received six months of community service, and not the customary sentence for offenses of this type.

The court took into account the special circumstances of the case, in which the family of the deceased child had regular contact with the scholar. The grandfather and the avrech set up an organization dedicated to the encouragement with awareness and prevention to forgetting children in the car. These circumstances led the court not to send the young scholar to prison.

The child's family announced waiver of compensation under the settlement. At the opening of the discussion the boy's grandfather Rabbi Yisrael Leichter, asked to say a few words before sentencing. "We're not giving up on compensation; we do not want and are not interested. Why should we want? Does compensation return the life of a child? There is no compensation for that," the grandfather declared. "From whom will we take the compensation? From the avrech? My daughter is his wife's friend; they go together to the park with the children, when she talks about the economic situation of the defendant her eyes well up with tears. They not only have to make ends meet, they have no way to start the month.

"From his blood we will drink?" Asked the grandfather with pain, "he will not go steal to pay the compensation, he will have to suffer defeat, I went through this experience of what it looks like to collect money, not for me personally, but to open an association of a soup kitchen. I know how to knock on doors and ask for money. I give up this pleasure. If a person will be disgraced and humiliated to finance the compensation will that relieve us, what we deserve will come to us. Even if the compensation money will finance the organization we founded together that such things will not change, even if for such a purpose, may finance plantation overseer these funds? Heaven forbid. "

During his remarks Rabbi Leichter decided: "At this moment I decide to open another organization, Help for needy families as Nachman and others, and with God's help it will benefit my grandson, a kind of compensation for my grandson, we try to help especially in times like these, we need a lot of compassion. We need rights. Rights are achieved through righteousness. Nachman gave me the idea that each one at the Talmud Torah adopts a soldier. May Hashem help and may we hear good news. "

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