CANADA
Global News
[with video]
By Anna Mehler Paperny Global News
Quebec police first started hearing the allegations two years ago – of drugged and confined children; corporal punishment, sexual abuse, psychological control, immigration fraud and underage marriage. Social workers found children in piteous states of health.
But it wasn’t until November, 2013 that the Surete du Quebec moved to take some of these children, on a provisional basis, away from the ultra-orthodox haredi Jewish sect, Lev Tahor.
By then, dozens of families had skipped town on a trio of buses bound for Chatham-Kent, Ontario, where they lived in motels and in units of a rural compound called Spurgeon’s Villa. (the bus driver, asked to leave at 1 a.m., said it was his policy not to drive at night. But this customer offered to pay cash)
Documents supporting a police warrant to search those homes were released to reporters Friday after multiple media organizations – Global News among them – fought to make them public.
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