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3 alleged leaders of New York-linked Jewish sect arrested on charges of kidnapping 2 children
New York authorities said on Friday that three more alleged leaders of an extremist Jewish sect have been arrested on charges of kidnapping two children who were found safe in Mexico.
The three men brought the total arrested number to four, with Aron Rosner being arrested in New York on Dec. 23. Nachman Helbrans, Mayer Rosner and Jacob Rosner were arrested on Thursday following their deportation from Mexico to New York, the New York Daily News reported.
All four are being accused of abducting 14-year-old Yante Teller and her 12-year-old brother Chaim Teller, of Woodridge, N.Y., earlier this month and taking them out of the U.S.
“As alleged in the complaint, the defendants engaged in a terrifying kidnapping of two children in the middle of the night, taking the children across the border to Mexico,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.
“As alleged in the complaint, the defendants engaged in a terrifying kidnapping of two children in the middle of the night, taking the children across the border to Mexico.”
— U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman
“Thankfully, the kidnappers were no match for the perseverance of the FBI, the New York State Police and Mexican authorities, and the children were recovered this morning after a nearly three-week search,” Berman said.
The men are believed to be the leaders of Lev Tahor, described by the authorities as an “extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala” that in the past reportedly subjected children to physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
The authorities say that the mother of the children had been a “voluntary” member of the sect, which was founded by her father in 1994 – but decided to leave the group after the change of the leadership that made the sect more extreme.
Before her departure from the sect, she spoke out against the extremism within Lev Tahor and said that that children aren’t safe there.
Her father, Shlomo Helbrans, was previously convicted of kidnapping a 13-year-old in New York, according to the Daily News. He was later deported to Israel and died in 2017 in Mexico.
One of the defendants, Nachman Helbrans, is the new leader of the sect and the brother of the mother whose kids were abducted.
Authorities said the kids were located on Friday in the Mexican town of Tenango del Aire and there are plans to bring them back to the United States and reunite them with their mother.
Jewish Charity to Shut Down Facility Embroiled in Sex Trade
By David Israel– 6 Tevet 5779 – December 14, 2018
Nineteen individuals were charged on Thursday by federal prosecutors of participating in a sex-trafficking ring that exploited women and girls as young as 13 years old, residents of Hawthorne Cedar Knolls, a facility for emotionally disturbed teenagers in Westchester County, operated by the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, the NY Times reported.
Chris Giglio, a spokesman for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, told the Times that the agency, is cooperating with federal investigators.
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None of the defendants were staff members of Hawthorne. However, the facility, which is in the process of closing down, has been blamed for its failure to keep teenagers from running away, and falling prey to abusers.
The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services earlier this year announced it would close down Hawthorne, in response to growing complaints from residents of Mount Pleasant about teenagers wandering the town.
In 2016, Mount Pleasant started fining the charity $250 for every call local police received about residents gone AWOL.
Only six children remain on the grounds of Hawthorne, and they are expected to be moved to a new location by Tuesday, according to Monica Mahaffey, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Children and Family Services.
The agency’s website presents the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls (HCK) Residential Treatment Center as “a home that provides mental health, social, and therapeutic services. A variety of treatment programs includes recreation, vocational, writing, and art therapy as well as drug treatment and prevention for at-risk youth. Approximately 90 beds are available for girls age 13 to 18 and boys age 8 to 18 who exhibit a variety of emotional problems. These children have been referred by Local Departments of Social Services or the local Committee of Special Education or Social Services.
“At HCK, they’ll receive comprehensive treatment, education, vocational training, supervised living, and exposure to independent living skills. Family involvement is an important component of the treatment even, or especially when being removed from the family environment is part of the treatment. At HCK, children are given permission to dream, to hope for and achieve a better life.”
