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Rehovot Boy Confesses to Choking 15-year-old Girl to Death
"Police arrested Saturday a 16-year-old boy, a ward of a special center for criminal youth, on suspicion of murdering on Friday night Ma'ayan Sapir, a Rehovot 15-year-old girl. Sapir's naked body was found bruised Friday in the yard of the Ort high school in the city. The youth suspect did not tell investigators why he murdered Sapir. Police said he appeared confused and only provided them with scattered bits of information. The suspect, the son of an immigrant family, is located in the center of the country. He murdered Sapir while on weekend leave from the center.
On the way to the mall. On Friday evening around 8 P.M., Ma'ayan Sapir left her Rehovot home and began walking in the direction of the city mall located just several hundred meters away. As Sapir was walking to the mall, she was met by the 16-year-old Rehovot resident who lured her into the grounds of a nearby abandoned school. In a dark corner under a large tree, the boy strangled Sapir to death. Police are also investigating whether the youth sexually assaulted the girl before killing her. A few hours later, several teenagers passed through the school grounds, noticed Sapir's body and called police. The policemen who arrived at the scene found the naked body laid on its back.
Suspect is 'confused'. Commander Yifrah Dukovni headed the police force investigating the case, looking for any bit of information that would lead them to the culprit. A juvenile crime investigator from Rehovot, Alon Ofir, thought of the 16-year-old as a possible suspect after having met him several times in the past in relation to violence and property offences. Ofir drove to the boy's home and detained him for investigation. The boy reeked of alcohol and contact glue, which he probably snuffed earlier in the evening. Several minutes before reaching the investigation room the boy confessed that he had murdered the girl by strangling her. The suspect did not say anything about the circumstances of meeting Sapir and also did not provide any explanation as to why he killed her. Police say the boy is confused and only provides snippets of information as he recalls the events very slowly. "We have patience, in a day or two we will know more about what took place before the murder," said a senior police officer.
The boy is a ward in a special center for criminal youth in the center of the country. He committed the horrible act while on vacation from the center. Police said that despite his young age, the suspect is a "veteran criminal" who has accumulated a multitude of drug, violence and property-related charges. He comes from an immigrant family that a police officer described as "disorganized and struggling financially." Detectives did not know clearly the girl's identity on the night between Friday and Saturday. Police identified the girl based on a picture provided by the girl's mother, who had reported her missing. Her body was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in south Tel Aviv. Results of the forensic examination are expected during the course of the day. Police sources expressed shock at the condition of Sapir's body.
Wanted to be a model. "[Ma'ayan] wanted to be a model," Sarah Sapir, the murder victim's mother, said Friday. "She wanted to be famous so much. Now, everyone knows who Ma'ayan Sapir is. We never dreamed that she would be known due to such circumstances." Sapir is survived by her parents, Uzi and Sarah, and two siblings, 11th grader Matan and 14-year-old Ranan. Sapir was an outstanding student, active on the student council and in volunteer activities. Director of the Rehovot schools, Tzipora Zaks, said that Sapir's mother led a parents' initiative last year to patrol the city's schoolyards."
Source: Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service. Rehovot boy, 16, confesses to choking 15-year-old girl to death. Haaretz.com (28 May 2005) [FullText]
On the way to the mall. On Friday evening around 8 P.M., Ma'ayan Sapir left her Rehovot home and began walking in the direction of the city mall located just several hundred meters away. As Sapir was walking to the mall, she was met by the 16-year-old Rehovot resident who lured her into the grounds of a nearby abandoned school. In a dark corner under a large tree, the boy strangled Sapir to death. Police are also investigating whether the youth sexually assaulted the girl before killing her. A few hours later, several teenagers passed through the school grounds, noticed Sapir's body and called police. The policemen who arrived at the scene found the naked body laid on its back.
Suspect is 'confused'. Commander Yifrah Dukovni headed the police force investigating the case, looking for any bit of information that would lead them to the culprit. A juvenile crime investigator from Rehovot, Alon Ofir, thought of the 16-year-old as a possible suspect after having met him several times in the past in relation to violence and property offences. Ofir drove to the boy's home and detained him for investigation. The boy reeked of alcohol and contact glue, which he probably snuffed earlier in the evening. Several minutes before reaching the investigation room the boy confessed that he had murdered the girl by strangling her. The suspect did not say anything about the circumstances of meeting Sapir and also did not provide any explanation as to why he killed her. Police say the boy is confused and only provides snippets of information as he recalls the events very slowly. "We have patience, in a day or two we will know more about what took place before the murder," said a senior police officer.
The boy is a ward in a special center for criminal youth in the center of the country. He committed the horrible act while on vacation from the center. Police said that despite his young age, the suspect is a "veteran criminal" who has accumulated a multitude of drug, violence and property-related charges. He comes from an immigrant family that a police officer described as "disorganized and struggling financially." Detectives did not know clearly the girl's identity on the night between Friday and Saturday. Police identified the girl based on a picture provided by the girl's mother, who had reported her missing. Her body was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in south Tel Aviv. Results of the forensic examination are expected during the course of the day. Police sources expressed shock at the condition of Sapir's body.
Wanted to be a model. "[Ma'ayan] wanted to be a model," Sarah Sapir, the murder victim's mother, said Friday. "She wanted to be famous so much. Now, everyone knows who Ma'ayan Sapir is. We never dreamed that she would be known due to such circumstances." Sapir is survived by her parents, Uzi and Sarah, and two siblings, 11th grader Matan and 14-year-old Ranan. Sapir was an outstanding student, active on the student council and in volunteer activities. Director of the Rehovot schools, Tzipora Zaks, said that Sapir's mother led a parents' initiative last year to patrol the city's schoolyards."
Source: Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service. Rehovot boy, 16, confesses to choking 15-year-old girl to death. Haaretz.com (28 May 2005) [FullText]
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