Even today, as 40 years ago, Justice Elon's words are not heard:
"We would like to express our grave concern about the conduct of an investigation against a suspect by a body that is not authorized to do so, by people who are not familiar with the law and who do not have proper and sufficient knowledge of what the basic civil rights are, that every person, including a suspect in an offense, is entitled not to be harmed or run over. The legislature entrusted the management of such investigations to the police and other authorized bodies, who are trained in this and responsible for it.
But whatever may be with regard to the authority and authority to conduct the investigation by television, it is clear that the broadcast caused the appellant, his wife, his children and his entire family such shame and humiliation that it causes almost unbearable suffering. The appellant says about this in his appeal – 'From the day my affair was broadcast... My wife and I and my two young children are being persecuted and hurt mentally in this act. Everywhere an accusing finger is pointed at us.' Such suffering is a very severe and very severe punishment – 'a punishment that is not written in any law' (as Justice Vitkon said in the matter of legal torture – Criminal Appeal 125/74, at p. 66), for the offender, his wife and the most difficult of all – for their children. And anyone who has not seen the suffering of children, whose friends harass them and withdraw from them in the wave of their father's sin, which was thus publicized, has never seen suffering.
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All of these must be taken into account in the degree of punishment imposed on the offender. Had this suffering not been taken into account, in a concrete way, by the learned judge, when he sentenced the appellant, we would not hesitate to intervene in the sentence" (Criminal Appeal 88/86 Zuckerman v. State of Israel, IsrSC 40(4) 209, 211 (1986)).
These things seem to have been written about the present case; And they apply to him as they are.