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Mother drowns son on Bat Yam beach By Igal Hai and Roni Singer-Heruti A Rishon Letzion woman suspected in the drowning death late Thursday night of her 4-year-old son was arraigned on Friday and ordered to remain in custody for 10 days. Olga Borisov, 42, allegedly drowned Alon Borisov at a beach in Bat Yam. Ilan Yehuda, 40, Borisov's husband and the boy's father, was released from custody yesterday afternoon although the investigation against him is continuing. He is suspected of failure to prevent a crime, negligent homicide and being an accessory after the fact. He may be charged for leaving the boy with his mother despite a previous attempt to harm him some two months ago. Advertisement At about 9:30 P.M. Thursday, Yehuda called police and reported his wife and son were missing. The two had spent the day at Tel Aviv's Azrieli Mall, and in the evening they went to the beach in Bat Yam. The boy's body was recovered from the water by police officers and civilians who heard Borisov shouting that she had drowned her son. According to police, a letter written by Borisov and recovered from a bag she left on the beach read: "Ilan forgive me. I love Alon very much." They added that in the letter Borisov indicated that she did not want to die with her son. Borisov reenacted the incident for police yesterday morning. She told investigators that her son's death was a mercy killing, and also claimed that she tried drowning herself. "My client, who is mentally ill, decided to commit suicide and took her son with her," Borisov's court-appointed attorney, Tali Gottlieb, told the court Friday. "She was motivated to remove the burden from her husband, because according to her the child had severe emotional and behavioral problems, and she felt sorry for him. In her condition she thought the solution was to bring about his death and her own." Borisov was ordered to undergo psychiatric testing. The police say that Alon underwent surgery and was hospitalized for about a month in Moscow just two months ago, after being severely, and inexplicably, injured during a family trip to Russia. 'I drowned my son' Yossi Yaakov, 18, of Tel Aviv, was unable to sleep Friday night after pulling Alon Borisov's body out of the water Thursday night. "I was with friends at Tayo Beach, when we saw an ambulance stop," Yaakov told Haaretz yesterday. "A medic asked us if we saw a mother drowning her child, but before we could answer we heard someone a few meters away shouting. We all ran over, and sitting on the sand near the waterline was a woman mumbling in Russian. She didn't answer when we asked where her son was, until my friend yelled, 'If you don't tell us where he is, I'll kill you now.'" "She started saying, 'I drowned my son, he's four-and-a-half,' and repeated it a few times," Yaakov continued. "My two friends and I ran into the water. I was chest-deep and suddenly saw the boy floating next to me - his head was in the water and he wore a shirt, shorts and shoes. I lifted him and headed for shore, shouting, 'the boy's here,' then an officer ran over and helped me, and together we laid him on the sand. The Magen David Adom medic tried to resuscitate him but failed. The whole time the mother was nearby, but she didn't cry or look. It was very tough - I couldn't get to sleep last night." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Palin and Buchanan McCain's VP pick's ties to Pat Buchanan rankles Jewish Democrats. A diplomat's foray into politics Ex-Ambassador to U.S.: Arabs in the Galilee are a secessionist threat.

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