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The wife of "abusive rabbi" Elior Chen will sit behind bars for the next five years. Jerusalem District Court Judge Zvi Segal authorized Sunday the plea bargain between M., who is in the process of getting a divorce from Chen, and the State Prosecution, and sentenced her to five years in prison and two years on probation.

"The actions carried out against the children included shaking, beating, binding, burning, force-feeding them feces, and more, and reflect a loss of humanity on behalf of the perpetrators," the judge ruled.

In his sentence, Judge Segal wrote, "Reading the indictment evokes a range of varied and powerful emotions, as well as shuddering and horror that the mother of eight small children abandoned them entirely to the care of (Elior) Chen, and carried out his will as if under a spell, absent of any capacity for judgment or distinguishing between permissible and forbidden."

"Chen and his associates displayed monstrous 'creativity' and in their 'correctional work' with the defendant's children. These actions bring up difficult memories from with the darkest history of the human race in general and the Jewish People in particular," Segal added.

The judge also referred to the children's mother, who served as a state witness, and wrote, "The warning bells and emergency of the childrens' screams and cries, which would have penetrated the most hardened heart, were not heart by the victims' mother, of all people."

The mother of the children whom Elior Chen abused served as a state witness. In this framework, she tearily described two weeks ago what her children had endured. "There are not enough words in the world to describe and express the enormity of the pain, sorrow, and anxiety in my heart for what I went through and what I put my children through," she said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3883692,00.html