Jerusalem, Israel - Israel's state prosecutors on Tuesday filed charges against an ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother suspected of starving her three-year-old son.
The prosecution charged the mother with child abuse by a guardian over suspicions she had deliberately misinformed welfare and health authorities about her son's condition.
She had also "sabotaged the nutritional treatment" given to her son in hospital in the months before her arrest, which "led to a significant drop in his weight that was at one point life-threatening," the indictment said.
The mother, a member of the radical Toldot Aharon sect, was arrested in mid-July, and her son -- the youngest of four children -- was taken to hospital weighing just seven kilos (15 pounds).
Her arrest triggered some of the worst Jewish riots the Holy City has known in years, with prominent ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, leaders accusing police and the state authorities of carrying out a "blood libel."
The ultra-Orthodox community has long been ambiguous towards the Jewish state created in 1948, whose laws may sometimes come second to rabbinical rulings. Its most extreme sects vehemently oppose Israel's very existence.