Guatemalan Officials Raid Compound of Jewish Sect and Remove 160 kids and 40 women

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Guatemalan Officials Raid Compound of Jewish Sect and Remove Dozens of Minors
The authorities said at least 160 children and teenagers might have been the victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox sect.






Guatemalan officials raided a compound on Friday belonging to Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect with past links to child exploitation. Prosecutors said they had removed at least 160 children and teenagers from the site who they believed were the victims of human trafficking and other offenses.

A regional prosecutor, Dimas Jiménez y Jiménez, told reporters in a news conference that the authorities were considering charges including human trafficking, forced pregnancy, mistreatment of minors and rape.

“We suspect these crimes were committed by a member of the community,” Mr. Jiménez y Jiménez said.

Officials also said that a deputy commissioner of the National Civil Police, Manuel Salvador Aldana Monzón, was arrested on Friday night in relation to the case. He was arrested on charges of leaking confidential information to one of the leaders of Lev Tahor, they said, possibly acting as an informant about police operations.

The authorities had attempted to raid the community before, but they were always obstructed in some way, Lucrecia Prera, the head of the Attorney General’s Office for Children and Adolescents, said in an interview.

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The raid is the latest effort by Guatemalan authorities to investigate the reclusive Lev Tahor community, made up of about 500 members living on a farm surrounded by walls and a padlocked gate in the Santa Rosa department, close to Guatemala’s border with El Salvador.

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Guatemalan authorities rescued 160 children this Friday from a property belonging to the Lev Tahor sect, an ultra-orthodox Jewish group under investigation for alleged sexual abuse of minors, reported the Minister of Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office. “Operation allowed the rescue of 160 minors who were allegedly abused by a member of the Lev Tahor sect,” wrote Minister Francisco Jiménez on social network X after a raid on the property located in the municipality of Oratorio, about 60 km southwest of the capital, where the sect settled in 2016.

Prosecutor Dimas Jiménez stated in a press conference that the raid was conducted due to “suspicion” of human trafficking crimes “in the form of forced pregnancy, abuse against minors, and rape.” During the raid, alleged skeletal remains of a minor were found, added the prosecutor’s office.

“Zero tolerance for child abuse!” said the minister, who specified that they had support from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Jewish sect Lev Tahor was under scrutiny by Guatemalan authorities for complaints of child abuse, forced marriages, and teenage pregnancies.

https://ticotimes.net/2024/12/20/guatemala-rescues-160-children-from-religious-group-amid-abuse-claims

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3. Sounds like Utopia for the chosen few.

Did God/Jesus/Allah/Yahweh know how their teachings would get hijacked by nutty humans?

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5. It's interesting how...

They all want to enslave other people and they think their chosen entity is okay with it and it's their right or some bullshit.

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6. Religion and child abuse? I'm sure it's never been recorded in history before...

Except their Talmud, the xian bibble, the Quran.

Isn't that one of the purposes of religion - to control others? Especially the weaker ones?

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7. Ugh, poor kids.

Horrifying story. Hope these sickos will be dealt with as they deserve.