Guatemala City – Guatemalan Police Raid Lev Tahor Buildings As Allegations Of Child Abuse Surface

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    Guatemala City – Two years after members of the controversial Lev Tahor Chasidic group were expelled from a Guatemalan town located roughly midway between Guatemala City and the Pacific Ocean, the group has run into trouble yet again, as authorities executed a raid today, looking for evidence of child abuse.

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    According to Guatemalan news paper Prensa Libre, authorities at the Guatemala City Office of Children and Adolescents received a complaint that could involve as many as 50 to 60 children, ranging in age from babies to 17 years old.

    Authorities were investigating complaints that the children were living in conditions that were described as “subhuman.” Guatemala’s Publinews reported that some children may have been beaten while others may have been drugged.

    Another source said that the raid involved a minor child who was taken illegally out of Israel and had joined the Lev Tahor group.

    Six different buildings were raided by police in Guatemala City’s Zone 9. Some Lev Tahor members objected to the action, saying they were not allowed to contact their lawyers and were told they would be shot if they attempted to call anyone.

    Medical personnel have been called in to evaluate the children and if evidence of abuse is found, the children could be removed by the Attorney General’s Office to shelters.

    As previously reported on VIN News(http://bit.ly/2cpmoix), 230 members of the group who had been living in San Juan La Laguna were forced out of the Guatemalan-Indian village in August 2014 after being unable to resolve their differences with the local indigenous population. The Council of Indigenous Elders said that the Jewish community was guilty of discrimination and violating Mayan customs and Jewish leaders in the area said that they had been threatened with hangings.


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    7 years ago

    Klal yisroel has an achryaus to warn everyone and dissolve this cult once and for alll Helbrans is a dangerous man. Do we need to wait for a tragett lo alinu to occur?

    shmielglassman
    shmielglassman
    7 years ago

    these confused and brainwashed souls wont let anybody help them the children are “real modern day TINOK shenishbeu bein haakum- very questionable if these children can be rehabilitated ” yeder shmoiger far zich toig er” rachmanus helbrans is not even there

    CountryYossi
    CountryYossi
    7 years ago

    all who remember Jim Jones in the 70’s can understand what Helbrans is doing.
    The only place they survived till now is in very poor countries with no sufficent money to break them up, finally they breaking it all up.

    commonsense99
    commonsense99
    7 years ago

    wow! what a surprise, I am shocked to hear this, lets see Israel, us, Canada and now this, where is the next place he will run to? Venezuela? Uganda? North Korea?

    SeekingTruth2626
    SeekingTruth2626
    7 years ago

    As I watch again and again the news surrounding Lev Tahor I am disgusted how my neighbors and fellow commentera actually allow themselves to fullibly beleive and accept everything that’s written at face value

    What is more appalling, is the fact that thruout the generationa of violence against Jews there were no facts of blood taking from murdered christian children, yet time agaiam and again the allegations “resurfaced” and pogroms were common.

    When will wake up to defend a Jewish community that has done nothing wrong, and celebrate any negative report as facts, yet in the same time, any positive report, is considered a lie, and the author a ‘sick’ individual????

    How long will we allow for the same government entities to instigate an international manhunt and destroy families for no reason other than their dress code?

    Are we as an orthodox Jewish community immune to such scrutiny? Do we want for the government to interfere with our education and daily life? Isn’t there enough dissidents and angry individuals blaspheming the Orthodox community?

    Why, oh why, do we applaud and laugh when are indergping such torture???

    Why don’t we stand up against the injustice?

    Why don’t we bother getting the facts straight?

    Why don’t we bother to verify if these people are truly human as they claim???

    Why do we allow them by default to be guilty until proven innocent??

    עתידים אנו ליתן את הדין

    לא תעמוד על דם ריעך
    Since the holocaust, not a single Jewish community was persecuted as much as Lev Tahor.

    Since the holocaust, not a single community was subject to so many blood libels and uprooting from one place to another.

    It is deplorable how our math skills let us stoop so low as to allow our fellow brothers to be כצאן לטבח יובל למכה ולחרפה.

    Here is the formula that allows us to stand by idly – guilt free:

    Mosrim + rumors + news reports = Facts

    This vicious cycle allows us to lead our lives knowing that a group of G-D fearing Jews are constantly being hunted down by secular elements in the Jewish community, and feel we have the right to not only allow it, but also to encourage the persecution and strengthen the Machlokes and שפיכת דמים.

    Not once has their been a fair two-way conversation surrounding Lev Tahor, Mishpacha magazine did not even respect the journalistic norm of having the other side express their point.

    Many Rabbonim will not express their concerns for fear it will backfire and affect their support and fundraising efforts. This element of silence allows us to cowardly recommend the most sadistic measures and punishment against our fellow brothers and sisters.

    When a mattress store shuts down due to a viral ad due to frivolous mention of 9/11, a community is being dubbed by Israeli media as the “Taliban” and nobody says a word about the frivolous mention of term and what is represents.

    I urge my fellow yiden before Yom Hadin to please wake up and smell the coffee.

    This is the least I can do to declare:

    I WILL NOT FOLLOW KORACH’S WAY.

    7 years ago

    Keep your eyes on new square. Same thing happens there.

    AuthenticSatmar
    AuthenticSatmar
    7 years ago

    I bet these kids are living in better conditions than most kids in the county.

    7 years ago

    “Lev Tahor Chasidic group”??

    why slander chassidic groups by making a comparison?
    1. this isn’t a group that follows any chassidic teachings and
    2. it isn’t a group; it is a CULT.

    SRRLD
    SRRLD
    7 years ago

    Any cult is a mental deviation…with a demagogue at its head. Just investigate, it cannot come out clean