A Six Year Old Boy

Ariel Lourie, 19 is an Israeli soldier was caught grabbing  a six-year-old boy from a St Kilda East park, and putting him in his car trunk.

The Mother Sees Him Putting Her Child In The Trunk

The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard that the boy ran screaming and crying across a road as his mother confronted an aggressive Lourie and demanded: "Are you crazy? What are you doing?"
 

The Israeli Stalked The Child

Lourie, who had arrived in Australia three days earlier on September 15. He was with his cousin as  he stalked the child and his younger brother. Next he pounced on the boy and ran for his car. It's a safe assumption he may have been on ecstasy.

 

His Cousin Panicked

The six year old said he heard the Israeli's other friend shouting "don't do it, don't do it"" before Ariel Lourie picked him up and cradled him "as you would carry a baby".

Mother Chases After Israeli

The mother saw him being "carried off" and had started chasing after them.  Lourie told the boy to get in his trunk.

 

Prosecutor Wants Jail Time

The prosecutor wanted the Israeli charged with kidnapping, but outside pressure allowed him to plead guilty to unlawful assault.  

Israeli Sees Psychiatrist

Ariel's lawyer, and the Judge, then agree to send the alleged molester/kidnapper to a friendly shrink.
 

Judge Issues Strange Decision

The Judge says he wasn't a kidnapper, but rather a decent man with an "over-friendly nature". She ordered her fellow Zionist to apologize to the mother, and fined him $1,000.

Lourie was now absent without leave from the army and would return to Israel where he "still has to be dealt with by his father for this stupidity", she said. She reluctantly agreed not to sentence him so as not to "interfere with (his) continued moral, ethical and employment obligations" and rehabilitation.