The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Wednesday that a federal court jury has convicted two leaders of the fundamentalist Jewish Lev Tahor sect on kidnapping and sexual exploitation charges:
The defendants, leaders of an extremist Jewish sect called Lev Tahor, masterminded a scheme to kidnap a 14-year-old girl (“Minor-1”) and a 12-year-old boy (“Minor-2”) from their mother in Woodridge, New York. The defendants then smuggled the children across the U.S. border to Mexico, where they reunited Minor-1 with her adult “husband” to allow him to continue his illegal sexual relationship with Minor-1.
The Forward reports on the convictions.
