Israeli Court Blocks Boy’s Visit to Uncle Stricken With AIDS
An Israeli court, responding to a request from a frightened father, ordered a 12-year-old boy not to visit an uncle stricken with AIDS, a newspaper reported Thursday.
A Tel Aviv court issued the injunction after the father pleaded that his son’s continued visits were “suicide,” the Jerusalem Post reported without giving names.
“This is our only son, and I feared for his life,” the father, an Orthodox Jew, was quoted as saying. “Therefore I had to ask the court to help me save him.”
The court barred visits for a week to await testimony from medical experts about dangers of the disease.
The paper said the uncle is a well-known fashion designer who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome while in the United States.
According to local news reports, 36 Israelis have been diagnosed as having AIDS.
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