Montreal – All 13 Lev Tahor Children Ordered To Foster Care Located Overseas

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    FILE - A handful of young girls belonging to the Lev Tahor Jewish group stop to stare curiously at the camera before carrying on to each other's homes in a small community near Chatham, Ont., on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. Diana Martin/Chatham Daily News/QMI Agency Courtesy to VINnews.com Montreal – Authorities have located all 13 Lev Tahor children who fled Canada to avoid another court hearing. All of the children ordered to foster care are in the Caribbean and Central America.

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    As reported in The Montreal Gazette (http://bit.ly/1cFFGYU) the children were due in Chatham-Kent court in Ontario, Canada, on Thursday to appeal the ruling that ordered them into foster care, but they did not show up. A community member told reporters they had gone on a trip.

    Nine members of the community were found Wednesday morning at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago. They had flown there from Toronto and were attempting to travel to Guatemala. Six children in the group were part of the court order to be placed into foster care.

    Quebec’s Department of Youth Protection stated that six other children are already in Guatemala, and a six-month-old baby is with her 17-year-old mother in an unknown location in New York.

    This is the second time the group has run from child protection authorities. Two-hundred members left Ste-Agathe-des-Monts in November and travelled to Chatham-Kent to avoid their first court date. A judge ruled then that 14 children should be placed in foster care. That order was upheld on Feb. 3. It was not put into place because the judge allowed one month for the family to appeal.

    That appeal was to be held on March 5, but was cancelled because the children were not in the country, violating a court order requiring the children to stay in the area.

    Denis Baraby, the director of the Department of Youth Protection for the Laurentians region, said he and his colleagues are working with Ontario police forces to try to bring the children back. Police are looking into criminal charges against the parents.

    The Canada Star (http://bit.ly/1dwsxVH) reports that at the time of the appeal, there were 13 children in the order instead of the 14 subject to the Quebec order because the 17-year-old mother is now considered an adult under Ontario law. It is not yet known if she is a part of the emergency order.

    According to Chatham Daily News (http://bit.ly/MRD3fA) Superior Court Justice Lynda Templeton is ordering the temporary apprehension of the children. The order calls for all the children to be put into the temporary care of Chatham-Kent Children’s Services.

    The court order also offered various resources to Chatham-Kent Children’s Services to apprehend the children, including the Chatham-Kent Police Service, OPP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Border Services and the Peel Regional Police.


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    mustsay
    mustsay
    10 years ago

    These women & poor children need our prayers. They are in seriouys danger…

    Timmy
    Timmy
    10 years ago

    Do all those agencies put in half as much time & effort into locating everyone ? Or is this about ripping jewish kids away.

    Aron1
    Active Member
    Aron1
    10 years ago

    Be mindful: Living an usual lifestyle is not necessarily abuse. If it were, ALL frum Jews (& other religious parents) would have legal issues.

    berelw
    berelw
    10 years ago

    purim is over these chevra need to take off their ridicules shmates and become part of society. go to a chasideshe kehila get a real job and face reality….

    hashomer
    hashomer
    10 years ago

    Hopefully the Quebec authorities are working with NY State police on locating the 17 year old and her child before more harm comes to them. Good luck to those in Guatemala, its a lawless place…

    jg0909
    jg0909
    10 years ago

    Maybe they should hire a few VIN members to locate the rest of this “CULT”.
    It is very obvious from Reading VIN and its comments that evrybody overhere 1 — knows without a doubt that these kids were abused and need to be ripped away from their parents, 2 –bunch of phsycologists that understand what goes through the child or baby or teenagers mind while being ripped away from a LOVING MOTHER…..(AND FATHER)

    YES I’M 100% SURE THAT THESE KIDS LOVE THEIR PARENTS AND THE PARENTS LOVE THEIR KIDS AND THAT RIPPING KIDS AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AINT SO POSHUT!

    jg0909
    jg0909
    10 years ago

    Watched public school teachers scream at kids. Also a level of CULTism.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    10 years ago

    What do these people do about kosher food and minyonim in Trinidad, Tobago and Guatemala? Shabbos at the airports?

    OscarMadison
    OscarMadison
    10 years ago

    Some Haredim would throw their children into an active volcano if it meant protecting their rabbi an the image of their cult.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    10 years ago

    what a chillul haShem! what a crappy nutty group that runs around getting into trouble in every country.
    Is it not bad enough that the women dress like nuns but they have to dress their little ones also like nuns. HaShem Ya’azor!!

    BLONDI
    BLONDI
    10 years ago

    Is the clothing a way to hide the bruising and beatings? Do these kids smile or laugh at all?

    Aron1
    Active Member
    Aron1
    10 years ago

    Well, here’s a good plan to avoid scrutiny: Let’s all assimilate &.blend in with our host country. Then they’ll accept us and let us live in peace.
    I can give you Six Million reasons why that won’t work.

    Anonymous1111
    Anonymous1111
    10 years ago

    There are some commentators that fall on that slippery slope between yiddishkeit and cult. Chassidishkeit is not a cult- it’s a way of life. Problem with these Lev tahor’s they have no way of life. Their belief is that gashmius is in a conflict with yiddishkeit. We Yidden believe that it’s actually not at all like that. Everything in this world is here to serve us Yidden and all we have to do is use it in the right way. For us to know the right way is by having guidance. Who exactly is guiding those Lev tahor’s? A one and only person. I’m waiting for the day that he’ll call himself mashiach!

    HeshyEkes
    HeshyEkes
    10 years ago

    While getting the attention of Child protective Services (or whatever they’re called in different countries) is unpleasant and a real pain; no one loses their children if they are “strange” or different. If these children were not abused they’ll eventually be given back to their parents 930 to 60 days). But if they really were abused, Hashem Yerachem on allowing their continued abuse by their parents and ther leader. Would you want that on your conscience? There seems to be sufficient grounds for suspecting that these people are under the influence of an individual who has some type of compelling charisma and may be mentally ill (think Charles Manson, Jonestown, Guyana, etc.) Eventually, it will be resolved; better to inconvenience this community who are innocent, than giving them the benefit of the doubt and allowing these children to be physically and mentally abused to be turned into misfits who will continue the cycle for another generation.