Man sentenced to 20 years for killing 2-month-old daughter
Tel Aviv court issues maximum penalty for suspect, convicted of manslaughter for killing infant in 2004.
By Nir HassonA Tel Aviv man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for killing his 2-month old daughter in 2004.
The three judges of Tel Aviv District Court ruled on the maximum sentence for Levy Lalik, despite the fact that the conviction for manslaughter was made in the framework of a plea bargain.
According to the indictment, on December 23, 2004, Lalik - a 29-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet Union - was left home alone with the infant for several hours.
During that time, Lalik allegedly drank to the point of intoxication. When the baby began to cry he pinched her, he applied pressure to various parts of her body, crushed her head and forcibly twisted her legs.
As a result, the baby suffered several injuries and died of her wounds.
Lalik was initially charged with murder. At first he tried to claim that the death was the result of an accident, saying he fell on the infant.
Later, he changed his plea to manslaughter, but judges rejected his testimony on two occasions.
In the first instance, Lalik pleaded insanity, and in the second, that the baby's death was the result of an accident.
Last September, Lalik confessed to manslaughter. The judges accepted the plea and issued a conviction.
The state asked for the maximum penalty, although defense attorney Yaakov Shklar asked to consider the fact that Lalik was intoxicated at the time of the incident and was experiencing difficulty integrating into Israeli society. He also noted that Lalik has no prior criminal record, and emphasized that he confessed to his own actions.
The judges rejected the attorney's claims, saying they were dwarfed by Lalik's deeds.
"The abusive actions of the accused towards the infant came in response to her crying and they became worse over time. The killing was not carried out in one thrust. Who knows and who can imagine the terrible physical and emotional suffering the infant underwent until her death. Instead of extending help and trying to save her, the accused expressed no remorse and abused her body, even though he knew she was dead," their statement said.
"The incident before us belongs to those serious incidents which justify and demand the issue of maximum punishment," it said.
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Levy Lalik attending his sentencing hearing at Tel Aviv District Court on Monday. (Motti Kimche) |
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Not only should the Haredi who battered his malformed infant son to death and this scum from Russia who murdered his tiny daughter be put to death, but also the wife assassin, Professor Rafael Robb, an Israeli teaching in Pennsylvania who brutally battered his wife to death on 22 December, then was filmed bearing his wife's coffin while dressed casually and sipping on a drink with one hand. In all societies, men are violent towards the defenseless women and children. Do not target the Muslims, all are capable of violence towards the most innocent.
So if the Haridi was not drunk then his crime is 10 times worse and should be punished accordingly!
I am glad this man is being punished. It should be longer. You tell me what country does not have this type of crime. Ley us talk about honor killings. Let us talk about Muslim killing Muslim. Yes Israel is a Garden of Eden for people that must escape from their homes leaving their property because they are Jewish.
Hannah has a fascination for what he claims to find most repellent and probably suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Dear Larry you are correct.i took the bate. actually i do not thing that clickfool is one person. i believe it is a group of people who have found a Forum via Haaretz. too many answers comes with that name it can not be one person only. or may be he is paid by terrorist organizations to seat at the computer and email these stupid remarks. thanks anyway.
No !! ( read the article again ) The Hareidi did not drink to the point of intoxication as quoted by this article. This guy tortured his infant to die from multiple wounds,and continued to torture it even after it was dead.
yes i have posted a comment like yours, but you know the propaganda contaminate weak mind like Hannah or Click etc.., did you see the film Borat? the sequence where Borat rent a room for the night a the house of a couple of old jews, this show you how propaganda works..
Didnt an ultra orthodox do the same thing a year ago and get away with a warning?
The story is absolutely horrible. A small helpless baby or child at the mercy of an intoxicated parent, behaving out-of-control, is unfortunately a more common phenomenon than admitted. - HERE: When new immigrants arrive in Israel, it would be hoped that the authorities acknowledge that some immigrants arrive from "problem-societies" and carry their problem-behaviour or bad habits along; therefore social workers would be needed to assist and support them through their first years with their adjustment into the new society and not be left alone to find out everything by themselves. Any symptom of dysfunctionality within an immigrant family like alcoholism or depression need to be helped and children of such families protected from violence or likely abuse, so that they will not culminate into tragedies like this. Through immediate involvement the accumulation of such severe social issues into generational evils can be prevented and a healthy development of the society assured.
Oh, dear Manijeh, I dare to say what I said, because I read and I research and I know what I say is based upon facts. What would you know about facts, Manijeh, by the way that you throw Muslim women and families into the ditch, by the way you speak? What is your basis for saying what you have said?
Don't take Hannah's words as anything other than propaganda. Hannah is not a woman. It is a boy that goes by the name of clickfool most of the time. He posts inflammatory anti-semetic statements on most topics, no matter the subject. He is a serious waste of time and energy, so don't let him get to you.
Hanna are you able to read? the article said Russian emmigrat? PLEASE PLEASE look at what muslem men all over the world are doing to their wifes and children!! they even encourage them to be suicide murderers? HA how dare you to voice such a opinion?
Lets hope the the Haridi awaiting his trial for a similar crime, gets the same sentence. There cannot be justice for one and not another just because he has powerful rabbis behind him.
As I often point out, this is just another sign of a society which belongs to Satan. Or, to put it another way, what a lovely Garden of Eden you zionists have created out of the lands which you have stolen from the Palestinians! Continue on: rape and kill your children! Disobey every commandment! Create your own Sodom! We others sit and watch your every psychopathic movement!