New York’s FBI and US Attorney’s offices on Monday announced charges against five leaders of the haredi Lev Tahor sect related to child exploitation, after the men kidnapped a 14-year-old girl in 2018, The Forward reports.
Nachman Helbrans, Mayer Rosner, Yakov Weingarten, Shmiel Weingarten and Yoil Weingarten are accused of having brought the girl from New York to Mexico with the intention of returning her to Guatemala, where Lev Tahor is now based, after the girl and her mother escaped the cult in 2018.
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