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SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio (WJW FOX 8, April 13, 2014)- An unusual sentence for an unusual bullying case in South Euclid.
“This was not a garden variety neighbor dispute,” said Judge Gayle Williams-Byers, South Euclid Municipal Court judge. Williams-Byers ordered Edmond Aviv, 62, to stand outside on Sunday with a sign.
“It will read, ‘I am a bully! I pick on children that are disabled, and I am intolerant of those that are different from myself,” said the judge. Aviv was recently convicted of harassing his neighbors on Trebisky Road. “It started when my parents bought the house, roughly 15 years ago,” said Scott Prugh, who lives next door to Aviv. Prugh says his parents adopted two black children with developmental disabilities. “There’s seven of us total. I never thought that anyone would have to go through something like this,” said Prugh.
Things like when Aviv once set up his dryer in his garage so that he could pour kerosene into it. “He did it so the flames would blow into our house. It smelled like gas, it filled the entire home,” said Prugh. “Aviv also spat on the mother on two different occasions,” added Williams-Byers.
Aviv plead no contest to the charges.
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