Four men get heavy sentences for rape, kidnap of 4 women, girls
The Haifa District Court on Monday handed down heavy sentences for four men from the village of Bir al-Maksour in the Galilee, convicted of raping and kidnapping four young hitchhikers from the north...The acts attributed to them took place between December 2005 and November 2006.
The harshest sentence handed down is for 20 years in prison and a three- year suspended sentence for Salem Hujeirat. His cousin, Ala Hujeirat, was given 15 years in jails and a three-year suspended sentence. Ruhi Hujeirat and Mohammed Radir received nine years in jail and a three-year suspended sentence each.
The court also ordered the men to pay a total of NIS 190,000 to the complainants.
The indictment against the men charges them with the rape of a female soldier kidnapped at knifepoint and three other kidnappings - of a 16-year-old girl in Kiryat Bialik, a 26-year-old woman from a bus station near Bir al-Maksour and a 13-year-old girl.
I am refering to the fact that neither the headline nor the body of the story mentioned that the guilty were, er, not Jews.
I only hope that the paper will not use the term "Hareidim", "settlers", et. al. in all their other stories. Others deserve the same protection.
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