Haredi parents of infant who died in illegal daycare defend the culprit

Considering what kind of socialist-collective mindset ultra-Orthodox communities like this can go by, it's devastating but not surprising the parents of one of the 2 dead children would defend the operator of the illegal daycare no matter how much she and her colleagues broke the law:

Chani and Yaakov Katz, the parents of Ari Katz, one of the infants who died this week at a daycare in Jerusalem, discussed the sequence of events on Kan Reshet Bet radio and rejected criticism against the haredi public and the daycare management.

"We've known her for seven years. I have three children, and she has raised them all," Chani said about the daycare director. "To me, it's not a daycare. She's an aunt, a second mother to my children. I know her well, and we are like family. I would only send my children to her."

In other words, they're okay with the daycare center being illegal, and quite possibly consider "secular" daycares illegitimate by sharp contrast to the point they won't even send their children there? What an embarrassment.

One of the worst things about this tragedy is that it underlines a problem certain parents have, of abdicating their responsibilities and letting 3rd parties raise their children for them, no matter what the levels of trust and responsibility are. And that irresponsibility's now cost the lives of 2 innocents, yet the parents of one won't even admit it was wrong to send their child there, even if the center lacked operational permission from the city.

Update: the following article is even more disgusting:

Chani Katz, the mother of one of the two infants found dead in an unlicensed ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem daycare earlier this week, spoke out against legal proceedings against the caregivers held responsible and said the death of her 6-month-old son Ari was preordained.

“Miriam and Mali also buried a child. It’ll never leave them. They’re innocent,” said Katz, referring to caregivers Miriam Friedman and Mali Shmuel Eliyahu, whom the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court released to house arrest on Thursday.

The caregivers will be kept under house arrest for nine days, barred from working for 45 days, and prevented from contacting the families of the deceased for 30 days. Speaking to the press ahead of the court hearing, Katz said, “What’s being done to them is an injustice.”

She added that her son Ari had died by “divine decree.”

“My Ari had to die on the very day, at the very hour that he passed,” she said, refusing to speculate on his cause of death. “If he had to pass away, it had to be with Miriam Friedman, and I chose Miriam.”

This doesn't sound like someone with much love for her own children. Her defense is sick, and it's exactly why more tragedies like this will continue. What she says is also a violation of the Commandment that one shouldn't use God's name in vain. Utterly shameful.