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    Some extradition targets don't have to be jailed Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on October 2, 2019, 12:02 pm

    apparently, especially when it's the "only democracy in the Middle East" protecting one of its own.

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/oct/02/alleged-child-abuser-malka-leifer-released-on-bail-in-israel

    An Israeli court has granted bail to Malka Leifer, a former Melbourne headteacher wanted on 74 charges of child sexual abuse in Australia.

    In a twist in the judicial saga that has dragged on for five years, Leifer is due to again be placed under house arrest. She was re-arrested just last year after police accused her of feigning mental illness.

    Judges ruled the prosecution had until Friday to appeal the decision, which would have Leifer live at her sister’s house near Tel Aviv.

    Re: the bolded part, via Wiki:

    The evening that the allegations came to light, the wife of a school board member rang a travel agent to say a flight to Israel was needed urgently. The school arranged, paid and booked tickets for Leifer and four of her eight children on an aircraft that departed at 1:20 am the same night, without having informed the police. The police later investigated the school. Following investigations by the police, a warrant was issued for 74 child sex offences concerning at least eight pupils, and an extradition request was placed with Israel. Leifer was then arrested in Israel in August 2014, and placed under house arrest in Bnei Brak where she was required to wear an electronic tag.

    At the extradition hearings, Leifer claimed that she suffered extreme anxiety and panic attacks in the lead up to the hearing, and she received a delay; she has since deferred the hearings numerous times claiming mental health issues, with one judge suggesting that the case could potentially be delayed up to a decade. In June 2016 an Israeli court suspended Leifer's extradition hearings and home detention altogether, requiring only six-monthly psychiatric reviews to determine whether she could attend court in Israel.

    In February 2018, Leifer was arrested by Israeli police after an investigation into whether she had systematically feigned mental illness to avoid extradition. The police investigation followed revelations by private investigators who captured over 200 hours of video of Leifer showing her leading a normal life, even though her defense team claimed that she was incapacitated due to her illness. Her legal team claimed that the arrest and the re-opening of the case was due to political pressure from Australia, and not a legal matter. A new assessment has shown her fit to stand trial in Australia, but the extradition has been held back temporarily to allow her legal team to review the new information. She is being kept in detention rather than house arrest.

    In March 7, 2018, the judge ruled that Leifer was to be released, while further investigation was to take place. She was released into the custody of Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, who gave testimony in her favor, claiming it was a "humiliation" for her to remain in custody. However, after Grossman withdrew his offer, she was ordered held in Israel's only women's prison until extradition proceedings are complete. The Jerusalem District Court then remanded the alleged perpetrator and ordered a second round of psychiatric testing to see she is fit to stand trial for extradition. The court's medical committee returned its ruling in July 2019, finding that the accused had faked mental illness to elude extradition.

    Just imagine if this was happening in, say, Russia or involved a white man connected to Trump, or a whistle-blowing journalist. Rachel Maddow and the fraudian would have lost their voices for all the screaming. Disgusting.

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