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Rehovot Tragedy: 16-year-old Confesses to Brutal Murder
"A 16-year-old youth admitted Saturday to the brutal strangling of 15-year-old Ma'ayan Sapir from Rehovot.
On the way to the local mall at 10:00 p.m. Friday evening, Ma'ayan took a shortcut through a park, where she was ambushed and attacked by the youth.After strangling her to death and stripping her of her clothing, the murderer left her naked body beneath a tree, where it was discovered hours later by a group of teens passing by, Channel 2 reported. The two did not know each other and the ruthless crime was apparently without motive, police said.Her mother learned of her tragic death early Saturday morning when, frantically concerned that Ma'ayan had failed to answer her phone all night and did not come home by morning, she called the police to report her daughter missing.
Police called her to the station to identify the body.
The young murderer had been released from a youth detention camp only two days before committing the cold-blooded crime. He was well-known to police for previous criminal offences, and it was only a short time after learning of the murder that police tracked down the suspect. He was arrested at his house early Saturday morning after witnesses reported having seen him in the area of the murder. Initial investigations revealed that the suspect was under the influence of drugs when he committed the crime, Army Radio reported.
Her grief-stricken family mourned the loss of the young girl, a ninth grader at the ORT school in Rehovot.
"I can't believe that she's gone," her aunt told Channel 2 interviewers. "I keep expecting that she's going to come running up any second." She wanted so badly to be a model but I discouraged her because I was worried, her grieving mother said. The Rishon Letzion district court held a remand hearing for the 16-year-old suspect Saturday evening."
Source: JPost Staff. 16-year-old confesses to brutal murderB. JPost.com (28 May 2005) [FullText]; Also see: YNet reports (in Hebrew) on this Rehovot tragedy: Report 1 Report 2
On the way to the local mall at 10:00 p.m. Friday evening, Ma'ayan took a shortcut through a park, where she was ambushed and attacked by the youth.After strangling her to death and stripping her of her clothing, the murderer left her naked body beneath a tree, where it was discovered hours later by a group of teens passing by, Channel 2 reported. The two did not know each other and the ruthless crime was apparently without motive, police said.Her mother learned of her tragic death early Saturday morning when, frantically concerned that Ma'ayan had failed to answer her phone all night and did not come home by morning, she called the police to report her daughter missing.
Police called her to the station to identify the body.
The young murderer had been released from a youth detention camp only two days before committing the cold-blooded crime. He was well-known to police for previous criminal offences, and it was only a short time after learning of the murder that police tracked down the suspect. He was arrested at his house early Saturday morning after witnesses reported having seen him in the area of the murder. Initial investigations revealed that the suspect was under the influence of drugs when he committed the crime, Army Radio reported.
Her grief-stricken family mourned the loss of the young girl, a ninth grader at the ORT school in Rehovot.
"I can't believe that she's gone," her aunt told Channel 2 interviewers. "I keep expecting that she's going to come running up any second." She wanted so badly to be a model but I discouraged her because I was worried, her grieving mother said. The Rishon Letzion district court held a remand hearing for the 16-year-old suspect Saturday evening."
Source: JPost Staff. 16-year-old confesses to brutal murderB. JPost.com (28 May 2005) [FullText]; Also see: YNet reports (in Hebrew) on this Rehovot tragedy: Report 1 Report 2
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