Northern Resident Charged With Brutally Beating Daughter, 15, Over Tank Top

A 48-year-old resident of northern Israel has been indicted for brutally assaulting his 15-year-old daughter because she was wearing a tank top. The indictment, filed Sunday in the Nazareth Magistrate's Court, charges him with aggravated assault of a minor by a guardian, assault under aggravating circumstances, and intentional property damage. The incident occurred last month after the father returned home to the family's residence in the Jezreel Valley. Upon seeing his daughter in a tank top, the father became enraged, entered the house, yelled at her, threw objects and glassware, and broke a kitchen cabinet door. When the girl attempted to change clothes and close her room door, he forcibly opened it, breaking the handle. According to the prosecution, the girl tried to resist her father, who kicked her, pinched her arms, and pulled at her clothes. Her brother, hearing the screams, attempted to intervene but was unsuccessful. The girl left the room to call the police, but her father snatched her phone and smashed it. The brother then went to get help while the father continued to assault his daughter. The girl and her brother went to the Afula police station that night to file a complaint. Head of the Domestic Violence Team at the station, Sergeant Major Orit Turgeman, stated that the girl was crying, agitated, very sad, and had severe signs of injury on her body. In the interrogation room, she began to recount years of severe violence and cruelty from her father, claiming that she and her younger siblings had been victims of his abuse.