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“The defendants’ conduct—which included forced child marriages, physical beatings and family separations—is unthinkable,” stated the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.The post Three Lev Tahor leaders
All nine suspects in the case have been convicted, including Lev Tahor’s leader, Nachman Helbrans.
(New York Jewish Week) — Three members of the extremist Jewish Lev Tahor religious cult were convicted of kidnapping two children by a New York court on Wednesday.
Shimon Malka, now 24, detailed life inside Lev Tahor and a kidnapping plot by the group's leaders, as a key prosecution witness.
Screenshot from Youtube of the Lev Tahor sect in Guatemala US Federal authorities filed child exploitation and child abduction charges against leaders of an extremist Charedi sect that has been accused of forcing girls as young as 12 years old into marriages with much older men within the sect. Five leaders of the Lev Tahor group were charged by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and FBI Monday with crimes related to an alleged forced marriage in 2017 and a 2018 kidnapping. The charges include conspiring to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal ...