Accused Sadistic Child Abuser Elior Chen On Plane To Israel

'Rabbi' Chen had to be restrained by police as he shouted extradition illegal.

Harsh indictment awaits 'abusive rabbi'
Elior Chen, suspected of ordering his followers to abuse children, to land in Israel on Wednesday afternoon after being extradited from Brazil. Upon boarding plane he shouts, 'This is illegal'
Guy Ronen • Ynet

A year and a half after fleeing Israel, faux rabbi Elior Chen will land at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Chen, who is suspected of ordering his followers to abuse toddlers and children, boarded a flight Israel on Tuesday night after being turned over to Israel Police representatives in Brazil.

The State Prosecutor's Office is already preparing a harsh indictment against him.

About two weeks ago, Ynet revealed the upcoming extradition process. Chen, who was arrested in Brazil in June 2008, boarded a direct 14-hour El Al flight from San Paolo to Tel Aviv, together with the Israeli policemen sent to Brazil. He was to be guarded throughout the flight by a Brazilian police officer as well.

Ynet has learned that Chen was put on the plane before all other passengers, accompanied by an Israeli detective. At a certain stage, he began ranting and screaming that the extradition was illegal, forcing local policemen to forcefully sit him down in the plane's economy class cabin.

Upon landing in Israel, he will be transferred in a squad car to the police station in Jerusalem's Russian Compound, where he will be questioned. He will later be brought before the Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing.

The Jerusalem Prosecutor's Office is ready for his arrival, and is already preparing an indictment following the police interrogation. Prosecution officials have said that the evidence against Chen is solid, and that even if he remains silent during the interrogation, there is sufficient evidence to file charges against him and even to convict him.

According to prosecution sources, they have testimonies from two of the children who spoke against Chen, as well as their mother who framed the faux rabbi in her police interrogation.

The woman is expected to testify against him as part of a plea bargain she signed, which states that she will be sentenced to five years in prison for abusing her children.

Chen is expected to be charged with severe intentional sabotage, assaulting a minor and abusing a minor in a large number of incidents.

'Fertile cooperation with Brazil'  
The prosecution's international department is extremely satisfied with the extradition. According to a senior official, "After a battle lasting a year and a half, we have managed to bring Chen to Israel and see him in court."

The international department handled the entire extradition process with Brazil and defined the cooperation between the sides as fertile.

In March 2008, when the affair was revealed, Chen fled Israel to Canada and then to Brazil. Israel issued an international arrest warrant against him in April. His wife was arrested in May in Brazil, and he was arrested several days later.

In December 2008, the Brazilian authorities asked Israel for an opinion on its authority to press charges against Chen, after the "rabbi" had claimed that some of his actions were carried out in the settlement of Beitar Illit, which is beyond the Green Line.
 
In May 2009, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that he could be extradited to Israel, but a week later Chen asked the Brazilian authorities for a political shelter and a refugee status, claiming that Israel was persecuting him for religious reasons.

A Brazilian committee denied his request, and about three weeks ago the Brazilian justice minister signed the extradition order.

Aviad Glickman contributed to this report.

Comments

[steve]

Anything less than a life sentence without parole for this murderer is unacceptable. Shem Reshaim Yirkav.

[shmuel]

Watch his supporters (yes, he'll have some) come out of the ditches and claim that the Zionist Nazi Gestapo state is persecuting him because he's a charedi.

[effie]

A year and a half to send his sorry butt back is way too long. I love his defense: Extradition is illegal! Pathetic.

[Asa]

A soulless soul-murdering child-abuser has the gall to protest illegalities and injustices. Some balls he's got on him. Which, were there any real justice should be cut off with an blunt, rusty butter knife by a child with underdeveloped motor-skills.

[Nurse Yachne]

Extradition is illegal

So is burning little children, especially bashing them on the head and turning then in to vegetables for the rest of their lives.

[Isa]

Unfortunately, Israel has this section of prison where he would get to study in a Yeshiva. I don't know but I think 'Life in [Israeli] Prison' means 18 years only.

Today, another low life got the 'needle' in Texas- just a small article in the paper.

[Wolfie in Oz]

If the allegations are found to be true (and there appears to be nothing to the contrary) he should be found jailed for life with hard labour and no prospect of parole.

I have no sympathy for child molesters and abusers and even less for those who hide behind the cloak of their religiousness.

[Nachum]

So that's why El Al started a South American route... :-)

I don't think they meant to say "framed," by the way.

[reuven sabel]

life in prison without possibility of parole is not a sufficient sentence for this nazi mother ----er son of a -----eloir chen who should rather be called elior rotzeach of maybe even adolph hitler.

[reuven sabel]

he masquerades as a rabbi and breslaver hasid and gives all rabbis, all haredim , all especially all breslaver hasidim an extremely bad name. he must be excommunicated for the horribly gross chilul hashem he has made.

[reuven sabel]

he is responsible for all israeli haredi child abuse that has taken place since he started to advise parents to abuse their children. he is responsible for yisrael valis having killed his son and for all other israeli haredi crimes of child abuse that have been commited and even those alleged crimes of falsely alleged child abuse that the evil zionist nazi gestapo government has accused other haredim, namely yenta markowitz and bruria keren, of.

[reuven sabel]

the government should set free immediately all other convicted haredi child abusers and should suspend their sentences. all of their sentences should be tacked on to elior chen's sentence.

[reuven sabel]

if it is true that an israeli life sentence means only 18 years in prison, elior chen should be sentenced to at least 18 life terms so that he should have to spend at least 324 years in prison. bernie madoff got 150 years for only stealing people's money. elior chen should be imprisoned for a lot more years than that because he didnt just steal people's money. he stole peoples lives. he stole people's children.

[reuven sabel]

if rubashkin is facing a possible 4900 plus years in jail for allegedly having cheated the government and nothing more serious than cheating the government, elior chen should be sentenced to a lot more than 4900 years in prison. he should be offered a plea bargin that if he remorsefully pleads guilty to all accusations against him before the end of the year 5770, he should be sentenced to only 5770 years in jail and should be eligible for release from prison 5770 years. otherwise he should be sentenced to at least 5771 years in prison and MAYBE death.

[reuven sabel]

rubashkin is facing over 4900 years for having allegedly done nothing worse than cheating the government. elior chen should be sentenced to a lot more than this.

[reuven sabel]

regarding the idea that elior chen should be able to attend yeshiva while in prison or go to a special prisoners yeshiva program, elior chen is not an ordinary prisoner who could be spiritually rehabilitated by learning torah. he is a rotzeach and according to jewish law a rotzeach is supposed to be killed even by vigilantes without benefit of a trail. his crime is not the crimes he commits himself but the crimes that he convinces other people to commit, using a charasmatic ultra religious personality to convince other people to abuse their children.

[reuven sabel]

if he were in a prison yeshiva program he would have interaction with other prisoners and could G-d forbid convince other prisoners that it is a mitzva to abuse ones children. this meshugene rasha rotzeach must be prevented from speaking to people for the rest of his life because he believes that it is a mitzva to abuse children and impressionable people might be G-d forbid impressed by is charismatic ultra religious personality and convinced by him that it is a mitzva to abuse children.

[reuven sabel]

the question remains how to prevent him from doing these things while he is in prison. there are 2 possible answers. one is solitary confinment for the rest of his life and the other is that he should be hung as eichmann was hung.

[reuven sabel]

i tend to favor for him solitary confinement without any visitors or telephone priveleges for him for the rest of his life over death because death involves the likelihood of reincarnation and we dont want evil souls like his to be reincarnated because we dont want more evil people to be born. if it is possible to trap his evil soul in his body, we should keep his evil soul trapped in his body as long as possible. hitler commited suicide to free his evil soul from his soon to be imprisoned body and be able to come back in a new body as soon as possible. elior chen is probably a reincarnation of hitler, ymach shmo vzichro.

[reuven sabel]

i used to be for the death penalty, but when i realized that it is a mitzva to keep evil people trapped in their bodies to prevent their evil souls from being reincarnated, i became against the death penalty.

[critical_minyan]

I knew the mother a long time ago, her family owns the Jewish Press, and I believe this is what happened: the mother and her kids were living in gaza, and they were evicted. They were such strong religious zionist settlers (crazies) that that she was sucked into Elior Chen's cult of personality in the disappointing aftermath of the eviction, attempting to make sense of God's betrayal of her cause.
Elior's attempt at avoiding extradition by claiming that the west bank is not part of Israel, highlights the waste of life, and the purposefulness of the death's of the these children. Now that he is caught, he will say anything to get away, even it mocks the cause and effect that started this unfortunate chain of events.

[critical_minyan]

I think to understand Elior Chen's personal psychology you have to put his acts in the perspective of hardline religious cults in Israel.
I think activity of his type exists in many places in Israel, without the element of extreme child abuse.
Cult-like Charedi leaders, most notably in Gur, use medieval barbaric methods to restrict peoples personal lives and control their souls. They both try to take pleasure out of peoples lives, whether it's preventing children from playing through vicious beatings or restricting normal sexual interaction between husbands and wives.

[Isa]

Dear Critical Minyan:
Do you think Elior Chen BELIEVED in his cult?
Or perhaps was he a huckster and just did it to scam money out of suckers?
From your second post, I am led to think he believed in his cult.
Isa

[alternative childcare]

I have no doubt that he believes in his own "powers". I don't think he's in the category critical minyan is referring to, I think he's in the more dangerous category of pseudo-messiahs found all over poorer communities in Israel, along the lines of Uzi Meshullam, Nir Ben-Artzi, etc, based not on keeping people in line (as with the organized groups that CM mentions) but rather on the charismatic antinomian (and antisocial) behaviours of a "mystical" leader, in these groups frequently in part motivated by resentment of, and hatred for, the groups in power (in this case, modern society, education, etc).

[reuven sabel]

it was a big mistake to extradite himto israel where he will get kosher food in a jewish jail. he should have been left to rot away till he dropped dead in a goishe jail in brazil.

[reuven sabel]

the problem with elior chen being in a israeli jail is that he could G-d forbid run his child abuse cult from an israeli jail by telling his visitors to abuse their children and by telling other prisoners to tell their wives and other visitors who come to visit them in jail to abuse their children. if he were in a goishe jail in brazil we wouldnt have to worry so much about his being able to run his child abuse cult from jail. since he is in a israeli jail now, we have to worry about how to keep him from running his cult from jail by advising visitors and other prisoners to abuse their children. the only ways to accomplish this is to either kill him or sentence him to many life sentences of solitary confinement.

[reuven sabel]

elior chen reminds me of what people were like before akedas yitzchak.

[reuven sabel]

before akedas yitzchak people sacrificed their children to false gods in order to find favor with the gods. this nitwit ---hole mother ----er son of a ----- is telling people to sacrifice their children to the false gods of -----ety -----.

[reuven sabel]

to the false gods of the mayan indians who believed that if they would cut out their children's hearts while the children were still alive and throw their children,s still beating heart on an alter, it would cause their gods to find favor with them.

[alternative childcare]

"elior chen reminds me of what people were like before akedas yitzchak."

So tell us, what were people like then? You must be a very old dude...

[reuven sabel]

elior chen is guily of avoda zara idol worship. he believes in and worships the false gods of the mayan indians, who practice child sacrafice, instead of worshiping the one true G-d.
He who makes peace in the heavens,may he make peace unto us and unto all israel and say amen. may it be Your Divine will, o L-rd our G-d that the holy temple be rebuilt speedily in our days. and there we will serve You with awe like in former good days by sacraficing animals instead of people.

[reuven sabel]

before akedas yitzchak people sacfificed their children on alters dedicated to their false gods. the reason that G-d told abraham to sacrifice his son isaac on an alter was so that G-d could dramatically say to abraham just as abraham was about to slit issac's throat with a knife, NO ABRAHAM. DONT DO IT. DONT KILL YOU SON LIKE THE IDOL WORSHIPPERS KILL THEIR CHILDREN. KILLING CHILDREN IS AN ACT OF IDOL WORSHIP. SACRAFICE ANIMALS INSTEAD OF HUMAN CHILDREN.

[reuven sabel]

this is why we need a beth hamikdash. we need that the holy temple should be rebuilt on G-d's holy mountain, mount moriah in the holy city of jerusalem. we need a place to make animal sacafices to G-d so that we should be saved from sacraficing our children to false gods.

[Shmarya]

Reuven,

You need to get a grip.

Please cut the number of your comments down to half of what you now leave.

[maven]

Shmarya, RS is clearly ill and his comments should be moderated if allowed at all.

[Guillermo DaGoy]

Sometimes it's funny to watch criminals cornered. I hope the detective managed to slap him around on the flight a bit.

[Seek]

Haredi take the pleasure out of peoples' lives and call it "moral obligation." Their hyper-ritualized existence, based on delusion and cruelty, makes me sick and ashamed to be Jewish.

[reuven sabel]

most haredim are not like this.

[reuven sabel]

haredim dont take pleasure out of peoples lives. those of us whose religion is based on cruelty to others are making a big chilul hashem.