A magistrate’s court in Rehovot on Tuesday sentenced a police officer to eight months of community service and a suspended prison term after convicting him of assaulting his wife and causing actual bodily harm. The attack took place about two and a half years ago in the couple’s home, in front of their two young daughters.
According to the indictment filed by Attorney Bashi Einau of the Police Internal Investigations Department, the officer came home and saw that his wife had placed a utility cabinet outside the door after one of its legs broke. He was enraged, approached her while she was lying on the sofa near their daughters, kicked the mobile phone she was holding, pulled her hair, and then hit and kicked her. She suffered injuries to her head and arms.
The court accepted the internal affairs prosecutors’ position and convicted him of assault. In its ruling, the judges said the defendant never accepted responsibility at any stage of the criminal proceedings and did not express sorrow, remorse, or empathy toward his wife, but rather the opposite.
The officer served at the Ramla police station and worked as a police prosecutor in domestic violence cases. A gag order was placed on the victim’s identity and personal details.
