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Last update - 13:17 27/08/2008 The Rose Pizem case / It can happen anywhere By Avirama Golan Tags: Israel, Rose Pizem, Crime The police this week had a hard time remembering a more deceiving subject of interrogation than Ronny Ron, who is suspected of killing his granddaughter Rose Pizem. Two weeks after the search at the Yarkon River began, it is no longer clear if her body was put there. Even after all the details are clarified, and if Ron's version of events that the child's mother, his wife, told him to "get rid of her" is verified, we still won't be able to come to terms with this story. Who knows what takes place behind closed doors? Everyone will delve into the morbid gossip and extract as much as possible, but we will never be able to understand how a little girl was murdered by her family or why no one heard her whimper and saved her. Because the worst crimes - though we already know it we still find it hard to believe - take place in the family. Parents rape their children, siblings fight each other and grandparents are beaten until they bleed. This truth is so threatening to human society that we have two main ways of denial and repression. The first is praising and celebrating motherly love. We are taught by fairy-tales and other stories that there is nothing more beautiful and pure than a mother's love. Look at the angelic images of Marie-Charlotte Renault and her daughter. Are they not the epitome of that ideal? Advertisement Then there is the tendency to call the abusers "monsters" and search for causes: They are poor, they are foreigners, they are immigrants, and they are not "part of us." They are different. But the naked truth is that parents, grandparents, uncles and siblings may hate their children, abuse them and even murder them. It happens everywhere among all classes and it happens to people that only yesterday seemed nice and normal. Frustrated, the press attacks the welfare authorities and police on behalf of the public: How didn't you know? How could you be so neglectful? When a crime is well hidden and perhaps premeditated with no one complaining, the police or welfare services cannot help. If someone is to blame or be held responsible in this case, it is the girl's family. Before the welfare services and police intervened, all they had to alert them was a hesitant letter to the National Council for the Child; a polite inquiry from a French lawyer. Now all the inattentive neighbors remember that tensions existed and that Rose was quiet and sad. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Hezbollah's surprise Al-Quds al-Arabi: Hezbollah has new missiles with a range 'Israel can't even fathom.' Hot 100 Tzipi Livni is featured in Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women.   1.   Lack of Torah 14:27  |  ScotGuy 27/08/08   2.   lack of torah??!! 16:13  |  dawn 27/08/08   3.   appearances deceiving 16:21  |  jerusalemite 27/08/08   4.   Dawn 16:27  |  ScotGuy 27/08/08   5.   Jerusalemite 16:44  |  ScotGuy 27/08/08   6.   Eye Opener 17:12  |  THK 27/08/08   7.   hatred in the family 17:14  |  No borders 27/08/08   8.   #7 No borders 18:02  |  THK 27/08/08   9.   evil has no nationality 18:40  |  gabe shakour 27/08/08   10.   Bringing children into the world need be licensed 19:56  |  AY 27/08/08   11.   Lack of Torah 15:11  |  Janet 29/08/08   12.   Lack of Torah 15:16  |  Janet 29/08/08

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