Don’t Tell Mum the Babysitter’s..Mum
January 27, 2005 | Aussie Dave | Comments 3
So, consider these facts: A married religious man diddles the babysitter, and subsequently impregnates her.
After the wife is informed, she agrees to adopt the child if it is a boy. If it is a girl, it is the babysitter’s sole problem.
The babysitter is passed off as the diddler’s about-to-be-divorced pregnant sister. She gives birth to a boy in the couple’s home, and the child is registered as belonging to the couple. The boy grows up believing his real mother is his aunt, who, incidentally, is allowed to see the boy on condition that she continues to have sex with the diddler. This arrangement is not known to the wife, who, upon finding out about the continuing sexual shananigans, promptly trashes the babysitter’s health food store.
After all of that, the Jerusalem Police Superintendent has this to say:
Jerusalem Police Superintendent Eli Cohen said yesterday that “our only surprise in this story is the fact that it’s not so hard to give birth to a child and present him as somebody else’s son, officially, in the State of Israel.”
I guess he has seen a lot weirder things in his life than I have.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
That is one of the saddest, sickest stories I have ever read! D, you are so spot on with your take on it! I almost laughed but… Haaretz just loves these stories… when they’re about religious Jews, don’t they!??
The thing I found most interesting in the story was how the adults involved (as twisted and sick as they might be) were most concerned about doing “right” by the child… a mamzer(?) … poor kid! My heart really goes out to him!
The child probably is not a mamzer. It would be a mamzer if the wife had been committing adultery and was its biological mother. But since according to biblical law, a man can have two wives, it’s not a mamzer. Just a scandal. The poor little boy. And I feel sorry for the couple’s other children too. Their parents are in jail, their dad’s been sleeping with their “aunt,” their mother went berserk . . .
Dave just out of curiosity: How come you exclude Smooth Stone from your “where credit is Jews” category? I am fairly certain he/she (remains a mystery) is Jewish, since I remember smooth to have been “sitting shiva” the other day.