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Yeshua, Hineni!: February 2014
Posted by Yeshua Hineni at 13:02 8 comments:
“Lev Tahor boys receive much less secular education [than] the girls, because they have [a] bigger burden of Torah studies,” explained Nachman Helbrans, one of the group’s spokesmen.
On the 29th of January, Ontario police and provincial police raided the sect again for further information. source According to an officer from Sûreté Du Québec, search warrants were issued Wednesday night with assistance from Chatham-Kent police and OPP. source Shortly after 5 p.m., cars carrying eight Quebec police officers, and two Chatham-Kent cruisers, arrived at the Lev Tahor settlement with two warrants and no explanation about what they were looking for. source
Legal counsel for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect told The Canadian Press that investigators arrived at the residences in the evening, searching for computers and electronics in connection to an ongoing criminal investigation. source The raid comes days before an Ontario judge is set to decide whether 14 children ages several months old to 16 years old, can remain with their parents in Chatham, or be placed in foster care in Quebec... source
No information was provided by either Chatham-Kent police or the Quebec authorities due to the sealed warrant. source
The community denies any mistreatment of the children and says they were already planning to move out of Quebec. source “It is simply discrimination and we are screaming to the world, ‘SOS’ ” said Rosner. He said late Wednesday that the officers removed baseboards in the home. He said that officers told him an Ontario court approved the search order. source
Before the court case that was due to be heard on February 3rd, there was a great deal of talk about one of the issues being heard in the court case involving a child who had been seen at the doctor's office with bruising on her face.
Chatham-Kent Children's Services apprehended the children on Dec. 12, 2013 when one child was seen by an ER physician for what appeared to be a bruise on her face. source
The ruling was expected Feb. 3. Also last week, a mother from the group who had two of her children, both under five, removed for five days and returned, sent an open letter to media outlets decrying harassment by authorities.
In the meantime, the spokespeople for the community and their lawyer went on the offensive about the allegations of child abuse and educational neglect.
“There’s no reason why children have to be taken away from the parents if there’s no concerns, no evidence in an investigation that started two years ago. We’ve been under microscopes for six months. There’s no evidence at all, nothing, zero,” says Lev Tahor spokesperson Uriel Goldman. “Why should they take away children? Especially to send them back to a hostile organization that was really, really against us just because we’re not the same as them.”
“We do claim, again and again, all the allegations against us are false. We’re talking about an investigation of 18 months with very serious allegations,” says Lev Tahor spokesperson Uriel Goldman. “Allegations like this have to be proven on the first visit. After so many months of months, hundreds or thousands of hours spent by officials, why has nothing been found? Everybody is very angry. It was understood from the beginning that we have a fight.”
Social workers from Quebec's Youth Protection Department had also described how one of the children targeted to be removed was married at age 14, two years younger than the minimum legal age in Canada.
Evidence at a hearing spoke of feet funguses, beatings with sticks, mental illness, arranged marriages for girls as young as 14 and less-than-adequate education standards.
Then the news broke after the court decision was made.
An Ontario judge has upheld a Quebec ruling ordering 13 children in the Lev Tahor sect to be surrendered to child welfare authorities.
However, the children will remain in Chatham-Kent with their families pending a 30-day appeal period.
"It would be impractical at best and potentially harmful at worst if the society were now required, in the context of the need to protect the children, to conduct a separate and new investigation into all of the issues currently before the Court of Quebec...simply because the parents have decided as a tactical manoeuvre to absent themselves from Quebec in order to frustrate the process of justice that had started," Fuerth said in his decision.
The 13 children belong to three families. A publication ban prohibits identifying them. The community denies all allegations and has said it is the victim of a Zionist smear effort.
Knowles said he is not sure there are grounds for appeal at this point, but he said his clients will consider all of their options. "We just received the judgment, there’s a lot in there, so we need to decide whether there are any appealable issues," he said.
Posted by Yeshua Hineni at 13:03 1 comment:
...If a child disobeys these rules or fails to respond to an adult, he or she is hit on the bare bottom or hand with a 45-centimetre, reed-like stick, one of which is kept above the door ledge in every room.
Sydney Morning Herald, March 24, 2008 "Spare the rod and spoil the..."
In November, the authorities wanted to take the mothers concerned in the case into coercive detention for further talks. (I'm assuming due to the nature of the Tribes to bait and switch when it comes to this sort of thing) The authorities then decided to suspend the judicial hearing on the fines that were imposed on the families and forgive the debt.
I'm finding now via Focus and the Augsburger Allgemeine that the lawyer representing the Twelve Tribes wishes to prosecute him for breach of confidentiality and filming in secret. They claim that the investigation into these claims are already in progress and ready to prosecute. Secret film and sound recordings are forbidden by law and punishable under Section 201 of the Penal Code with a heavy fine or a prison sentence of up to three years.
I'll be crossing my fingers and saying my prayers that the judges see through this smoke screen and dismiss these charges as frivolous in the light of everything that they are finding out has occurred in the commune.
If you've not been following along on my blog, you will want to read part 1, part 2 , part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12 and part 13 to be better informed on this issue.
Posted by Yeshua Hineni at 01:27 12 comments: