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Lev Tahor cult director Mayer Rosner
Lev Tahor cult director Mayer Rosner
An Ontario judge has upheld a Quebec court’s ruling that 14 children from the Lev Tahor cult must be placed into temporary foster care, according to the JTA.

However, the judge put a 30-day stay in place to give the children’s families time to appeal, the website FailedMessiah.org reported.

Child protection officials in Quebec had previously presented the Quebec court with evidence of neglect, psychological abuse, poor dental hygiene, poor physical health, the lack of secular education and child marriages.

But the 250-member cult fled Quebec for rural Ontario in November just before the judge’s order removing the children was issued, according to the Associated Press.

Lev Tahor’s spokesmen have denied the allegations and claims Quebec officials are working with Israel in a Zionist plot to destroy Lev Tahor.

Last week, Quebec police and local Chatham, Ontario police raided two Lev Tahor homes and removed at least one box of evidence.

Rabbi Nachman Helbrans, son of Lev Tahor’s founder, convicted kidnapper Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, reportedly said the search could have been an attempt to find evidence of illegal child marriages.

In another Lev Tahor case of alleged child neglect, the case regarding two Lev Tahor children seized by Ontario social workers in December who were then returned to their parents has reportedly been adjourned until April.

The Jewish Voice wrote about the mass exodus of the cult from Ontario last fall when the group vanished prior to the visit of child-protection workers and looming court dates on child abuse and neglect.

In an earlier issue the JV had reported: “Members of the extremist Orthodox sect known as Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, were initially reported to be planning to relocate the entire sect to Iran. On the contrary, the JTA and the Canadian media reported over the weekend that the group has opted to settle in Ontario instead of Iran. About 200 people, including more than 130 children, traveled from Ste. Agathe, Quebec to Ontario by bus and were staying in a block of hotel rooms, according to a Canadian police source.”

Neighbors told authorities that three buses had arrived in the middle of the night to relocate the entire community. With some families facing court dates this week under Quebec’s Youth Protection Act, almost the entire community — including all of the 130 children — had abruptly decamped for Chatham, Ont.

“For sure we are worried by the fact that they fled Quebec to go to Ontario,” Denis Baraby, director of youth protection for the Laurentians region, said on Friday, November 22. His staff has been investigating the community since August, trying to help children suffering from poor hygiene, inadequate housing and unsatisfactory schooling, according to the National Post.

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