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Anonymous ID: 1c2951 Dec. 30, 2018, 7:12 p.m. No.4530033   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0288 >>0407

>>4530012

https://outline.com/EEnsL4

 

Three alleged leaders of extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor are charged with kidnapping two children in New York and moving them out of the country aboard a flight from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport.

 

The children have been found safe in Mexico, authorities said Friday.

 

Nachman Helbrans, Mayer Rosner and Jacob Rosner were arrested Thursday after they were deported from Mexico to New York. Their attorney did not return an email seeking comment.

 

The three plus a fourth man arrested earlier have been charged with abducting the victims — 14-year-old Yante Teller and her 12-year-old brother, Chaim Teller — on Dec. 8 from their home in upstate New York and taking them out of the country.

 

Defendant Aron Rosner, who was arrested in New York City on Dec. 23, worked with several people across the United States, Mexico and Guatemala to try to return the siblings to the Lev Tahor community in Guatemala, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains, New York.

 

The children were taken to the airport in Pittston Twp., where surveillance footage showed them being ushered through airport security by a man whom the complaint does not identify. Days later, the children were in Mexico, the complaint said.

 

The airport is sharing what it can with law enforcement, including surveillance footage, said airport Director Carl Beardsley Jr..

 

The FBI said in court filings that the children’s mother had been a “voluntary member” of Lev Tahor but fled the group in recent weeks after its leadership became increasingly extreme. Her father, Shlomo Helbrans, founded the sect and, in 1994, was convicted of kidnapping a 13-year-old in New York. Shlomo Helbrans was later deported to Israel. He drowned in Mexico in 2017.

 

Nachman Helbrans is the brother of the kidnapped children’s mother and the new leader of the sect, authorities said. The criminal complaint against the defendants includes reports of Lev Tahor subjecting children to “physical, sexual and emotional abuse.”

 

The kidnapped children were found Friday morning in the Mexican town of Tenango del Aire and will soon be reunited with their mother, the FBI said.

Anonymous ID: 1c2951 Dec. 30, 2018, 7:29 p.m. No.4530249   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0288 >>0407 >>0424

>>4530214

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario-child-welfare-agency-investigating-lev-tahor-1.1565985

 

A child welfare agency in southwestern Ontario confirmed it is conducting an investigation into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that fled Quebec before a court there ordered 14 children into foster care.

 

Members of Lev Tahor, a 200-member sect that relocated in Chatham, Ont., said Thursday they had met with local social services.

 

“We brought everybody to the office so it was very happy, no police needed, was very comfortable,” said community spokesperson Uriel Goldman.

 

The group has authorities on alert after their seemingly sudden move from their home in Ste. Agathe-Des-Monts, Que., last week, and the attention could mean a future jurisdictional battle.

 

On Wednesday, a Quebec judge ordered that 14 children from Lev Tahor be placed temporarily in foster care, undergo medical exams and receive psychological support.

 

The children cannot be identified under a publication ban.

 

Lev Tahor said while they respect the Quebec courts, it does not have jurisdiction now that the 14 children are officially residents of Ontario.

 

Social services in the Chatham-Kent area told CTV News they are working with Quebec officials and conducting their own investigation.

 

The ruling followed a months-long investigation by Quebec child protection workers.

 

The isolated community, comprising approximately 40 families, said they left Quebec for another reason.

 

“We’re not the first group to have to flee Quebec because of education problems,” Goldman told CTV News.

 

The group accuses authorities of targeting the community because of its anti-Israeli stance, conservative treatment of girls and women, and arranged marriages of teenagers as young as 16.

 

The group insists it is doing nothing illegal and that they moved to Ontario to practice its religion freely.

 

They made a point Thursday of demonstrating that their children are receiving education, though CTV’s Peter Akman reports only males were seen studying.

 

Lev Tahor came to Canada in 2005 when its leader, Israeli-born rabbi Shlomo Elbarnes, was granted refugee status. He claimed he would be persecuted in Israel for his anti-Zionist stance. Elbarnes had earlier served a two-year sentence in the United States for kidnapping a child.

Anonymous ID: 1c2951 Dec. 30, 2018, 7:37 p.m. No.4530348   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0393

Can someone verify legitimacy? I believe it, but don't have source.

 

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