BOGOTA, Colombia– Migration authorities in Colombia have actually taken 17 kids right into safety protection after they were saved from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose participants have actually been charged of sexually abusing and kidnapping minors in several countries.
Gloria Esperanza Arriero, the supervisor of Colombia’s nationwide migration solution, informed The Associated Continue Monday that her company is wondering about 9 participants of the Lev Tahor sect after they were apprehended on Sunday throughout a resort assessment.
” We will likely deport them,” Arriero claimed, “since there are no apprehension orders for them in Colombia.”
She claimed that the team of 17 kids and 9 grownups shown up in Colombia throughout the recently of October, and were remaining in a resort in the tiny northwestern city of Yarumal while they looked for a country home they might make use of to launch a brand-new website in the South American nation.
Arriero claimed that there were Interpol yellow notifications for 5 kids in the team, that have American and Guatemalan keys. The notifications are worldwide notifies provided for individuals that have actually been reported as missing out on, or are prospective targets of adult, or criminal kidnapping.
The authorities claimed that her company made a decision to act after citizens notified authorities regarding the visibility of participants of the sect in Yarumal.
” The favorable point in all of this is that we reached the kids prior to they had a substance,” Arriero claimed. “Since because instance, we would certainly have needed a search warrant.”
In Colombia, migration authorities can carry out searches in resorts and inspect whether immigrants remaining there have got in the nation legitimately, or are desired by police.
In 2014 authorities in Guatemala invaded a Lev Tahor substance in the Main American nation, complying with records of sexual assault, taking at the very least 160 minors and 40 females right into safety protection.
The sect has actually encountered lawful issues in other places.
In 2022, Mexican authorities arrested a leader of the sect near the Guatemalan boundary and eliminated a variety of females and kids from their substance. In 2021, 2 leaders of the team were founded guilty of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes in New York City.
Lev Tahor is recognized to have participants in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Guatemala and Israel.
