Jerusalem District Court Judge Zvi Segal sentenced M., the mother of the children abused in the "abusive rabbi" case to five years in prison and two years on probation as part of a plea bargain.
The judge ruled, "Reading the indictment evokes a range of varied and powerful emotions, as well as shuddering and horror that the mother of eight small children abandoned them entirely to the care of (Elior) Chen, and carried out his will as if under a spell, absent of any capacity for judgment or distinguishing between permissible and forbidden."
