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Recently unveiled court documents claim that children in a conservative Jewish sect were beaten with sticks and metal hangers and forced to urinate in Ziploc bags. Details of a disturbing testimony recorded during a youth-court hearing on Nov. 27 into the Lev Tahor sect surfaced on Thursday after a judge north of Montreal lifted a publication ban.
A total 40 Lev Tahor members escaped their compound in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que. on Nov. 17 while officials were arranging to seize their children. The group has since gathered in Chatham, Ont, where a judge will be deciding on Feb. 3 whether or not to honour the Quebec court order. Lev Tahor, founded by Rabbi Schlomo Helbrans, opposes Zionism and the state of Israel. According to the group’s believes, the Torah instructs Jews to remain in exile until the coming of the Messiah.
According to the court documents released publicly on Thursday, the witnessed portrayed a terrifying world of corporal punishment, bullying and forced teen marriages. The court heard from an unidentified former Lev Tahor member that “hitting was a common practice” to punish young people in the community. According to him, he was made responsible to enforce behaviour among unmarried young men during prayers and confessed having had struck the youths with a metal hanger if they got out of line. Additionally, the court was also told that a wooden stick was commonly placed in every classroom in the community’s homeschool.
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