Quebec Court Ordered All 128 Lev Tahor Cult Children Into Protective Custody

A Quebec Provincial Court has issued apprehension orders for all 128 children in the haredi cult.

Lev Tahor children cry and pray earlier this month after their teacher was arrested on immigration charges (Blackburn News)

Blackburn News reports:

A Quebec Provincial Court has issued apprehension orders for all 128 Lev Tahor children.

Youth protection officials in Quebec tell BlackburnNews.com the orders were issued in November of 2013, after the group fled the province.

“Those orders have been transferred to the Chatham-Kent Children’s Services,” says Director of Communications for the Laurentian Youth Center Isabelle Dugre. “For the moment, we do not know what will be the action of CKCS regarding those orders.”

The youth centre declined to comment further as members of the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect await a judge’s decision in an on-going custody case involving 14 children.

The children and their parents fled Chatham-Kent after an Ontario judge upheld a Quebec court order forcing them into foster care. Six are in Guatemala where they are reportedly seeking refugee status, six were apprehended in Trinidad and Tobago and another two were discovered at the Calgary International Airport. A 17-year-old girl has since been released from custody, but her infant child remains in foster care with a Jewish family near Toronto, as do the other children.

A decision in that case is expected on Monday.

Leaders of the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect continue to deny all allegations of child brides, forced marriages, neglect and abuse.

[Hat Tip: The Fez.]

Comments

[ah-pee-chorus]

It's completely necessary but heartbreaking for these poor kids. I hope they can be temporarily placed with relatives, their parents de-programmed, and then re-united as a normal family.

[RWisler]

Quebec ordered this last November and Ontario didn't act upon it till now?! Boy, those two provinces must not get along very well.

[Eli R]

If I could only be convinced that they are doing it for the sake of these poor children. Somehow I'm convinced that they are doing this out of pure raw hatred. Blatant antisemitism. These holier than thou french catholics are well known f or their love of Jews. It is only proven by the fact that while they are fighting tooth and nail to control these kids to the extent of extradition them from any country that harbors them a at the same time they started proceedings against some of the group.

[S M L]

Eli:

And all of us French Catholic Jew-haters on this blog agree with their actions out of pure antisemitism too, right? This is a dangerous cult. Extreme, controlling, insular, totally out of sync with the 21st century. They should be permitted to marry off young teens and to keep everyone in subjugation and ignorance. Wake up.