Shocking tragedy
"I Keep Pumping Milk in Case You Come Back": Mother’s Heartbreaking Farewell to Baby Killed in Daycare Disaster
The mother of Ari Katz, the infant who died in the Jerusalem daycare tragedy, shares a gut-wrenching eulogy. "You were the best thing that happened to me, and they snatched you away."
In a testimony that has broken hearts across the country, the mother of infant Ari Katz, one of two babies who died in the tragic daycare incident in Jerusalem, posted a gut-wrenching eulogy for her son on Wednesday.
Ari, along with infant Liya Goloventzitz, passed away at a Jerusalem daycare two days ago.
"Ari, where are you? What is going on?" the grieving mother wrote. "Right now is exactly the time we usually cuddle in bed together. Oh, how you loved to be pampered! And how I loved to pamper you."
She continued, describing the unique bond she shared with her fourth child. "I always told you that you were the best thing that ever happened to me, and specifically you, specifically you, they snatched from me. They simply took you, without asking me, without preparing me... you just went with them and disappeared."
In perhaps the most painful passage of the eulogy, Ari's mother described the physical reality of her grief.
"How can this be? I keep pumping and pouring out the milk because maybe, just maybe, you’ll be back soon. Ari, where are you? Someone wake me up from this black dream and give you back to me, and I will hug you tight and never let you go."
She described the support she is receiving as a fog designed to mask the pain. "People are trying to blur my senses so I don't grasp this disaster... But Ari, seriously, when are you coming back?"
The tragedy, which claimed the lives of both Katz and Goloventzitz, is currently under investigation. Police suspect the infants died of severe dehydration and heatstroke after the room's climate control was set to an extreme temperature.