"Abuse Rabbi" Returns To Israel

Child victim held under a stream of water until he choked, burned his fingers with a cigarette lighter and would strip him, put him outside and poor hot and cold water over him.

'Abuse rabbi' returns to Israel
The leader of a Jewish sect has been extradited from Brazil to Israel to face charges of abusing children in a purification ritual to expel demons.
The BBC

Elior Chen fled in 2008 after two boys, aged 3 and 4, were taken to hospital with severe injuries. One is in a vegetative state with brain damage.

It is alleged young children were beaten, burned and made to eat faeces at his home in the occupied West Bank.

A lawyer for the self-styled rabbi denied the incidents happened.

Mr Chen was arrested in June 2008 in Sao Paolo and his since been battling Israeli extradition requests in the Brazilian courts.

The Israeli Justice Ministry said the allegations relate "primarily to violence and severe physical and emotional abuse" on two brothers carried out by four followers of Mr Chen.

It said the abuse took place over a "prolonged period" mostly at Mr Chen's house in the Beitar Illit settlement, which has a large ultra-orthodox Jewish population.
The mother of the two boys is serving a five-year prison term under a plea bargain.

Mother's indictment

The charges laid against the mother, M, described a series of abuses in which she failed to intervene: shaking the children with "great force"; tying up their hands and legs with ropes, forcing them to drink alcohol until they vomited and beating them with a wooden hammer.

According to the charge sheet, the members of the group held the younger boy, A, under a stream of water until he choked, burned his fingers with a cigarette lighter and would strip him, put him outside and poor hot and cold water over him.

It said the older boy, N, then aged four, was put next to a heater until he was severely burned and his skin was starting to peel, and then poured alcohol and salt on the wounds.

An investigation was opened after the boys were brought for medical treatment in March 2008.

Mr Chen's lawyer Ariel Atari said on Wednesday that the incidents in question "never happened", the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahranot reported.

"He will look at them during the probe, listen to them, and that's it. He will say whatever he has to say at court," he was quoted as saying.

Last year, Mr Atari said his client denied any intent to injure children, and fled Israel because he did not trust its legal system, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The trial of the four followers is continuing in Israel.

Comments

[reuven sabel]

if elior chen's lawyer says that this didnt happen, how the ---- does he account for the injuries that happened to both brothers and how does he account for one of the brothers being brain dead?

[reuven sabel]

the mother of these boys is not responsible for abusing her children and should not be held responsibble for what happened. her 5 year sentence should be suspended and should be added to the cult leader's sentence because he is responsible for all haredi israeli child abuse that has taken place ever since he started advising parents to abuse their children.

[effie]

Parent's are under both a legal and moral duty to protect their children. She should have gotten more than 5 years.

[shmuel]

"The mother of these boys is not responsible for abusing her children and should not be held responsibble [sic] for what happened."

That's crazy talk. Of course she's responsible: she was their MOTHER. And yes, Effie has it right: 10-15 would have been much better.

[alternative childcare]

Shmarya: the repeated statement by RS that all haredi child abuse in Israel is due to this person is another reflection of mr sabel's delusional illness, and he really shouldn't be posting here without moderation.

[Shmarya]

Reuven,

Please cut back the number of your comments a bit more, okay?

You can still comment, just not dozens of comments.

[reuven sabel]

j have said many times allready that the internet is not the proper forum to discuss my sanity of lack thereof. if anybody wants to discuss my sanity please call me. my number is 845-659-9162.

[reuven sabel]

how is it possible for a gullible mother to not be brainwashed by this charismatic cult leader? this mother was brainwashed by an extremely charismatic extremely dangerous cult leader. the crimes that she committed were not her fault because she committed these crimes under hypnoses. she was not responsible for the crimes that she committed. sure she should be sentenced to 15 years in prison, but her sentence should be suspended and added on to cult leader elior chen's sentence.

[Pablo Faird]

RS:
If this mother can be so easily swayed or brainwashed she should at least be locked up in a mental institution. She should not be free to roam the public.

[reuven sabel]

we are all so gullible to charismatic cult leaders like mr chen. maybe we should all be locked up in mental institutions
because of our gullibility and non-gullible nazis like elior chen should control our minds in the mental institutions with whatever anti-psychotic drugs and electroshock treaments they want to use to control and destroy us. after all, they are the only people in the world who are not gullible. all the rest of us are gullible.

[reuven sabel]

to stop being sarcastic as i was in my last comment, this mother has allready learned her lesson the hard way. one of her chilren is allready brain dead because of elior chen, ymach shmo vzichro. since she has allready learned her lesson the hard way, the only reason to keep her in jail or a mental hospital is because the secularists want to see haredim in jails and mental hospitals.