After girl, 14, gives birth, Lev Tahor member admits cult marries off children
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Cult member Michael Goldman admits in interview that in the compound, from which about 200 children and boys were rescued, girls are being married off; ‘We are marrying off minors, for sure’; Release of interview comes as 14-year-old girl gives birth to baby boy days after being rescuedGirls and young women are being married off in the closed compound of the Lev Tahor sect, a member of the cult told Guatemalan media. Michael Goldman shamelessly told the interviewer: “We are marrying off 14-year-old girls.” The interview was released on Wednesday at the same time as it was reported that a 14-year-old girl who was rescued from the sect earlier this week gave birth to a baby boy. She is in a hospital under the care of social services, according to reports.If we didn’t have enough evidence of forced marriage at a very young age in the extreme ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor then the member provided it on Wednesday night. Goldman spoke outside the facility, where about 200 children, teenagers and women who were rescued from the sect’s compound last weekend were transferred . According to testimonies, the children suffered from physical and mental abuse, starvation, severe violence, harsh punishments and malnutrition and lack of medical care.Michael Goldman admitted on camera that the sect also has underage grooms. When asked how old the oldest married woman is he replied: “I think she’s 50.” He was then asked how old the youngest married member of the sect was, and he replied “14 or 15.” He noted: “We have underage grooms, for sure.”
At the same time, one of the veteran activists against the Lev Tahor sect, who suffered severe beatings and violence from the sect’s leaders who were furious at the police officers who rescued the children, arrived in the past 24 hours with food and additional critical equipment for the children and teenagers who are in a police detention facility.New York activist Yaakov Flitchkin wrote on his X account alongside a photo of himself carrying food and clothes for children: “Providing essential food support to victims of the Lev Tahor cult. I wish them comfort, strength and hope for a brighter future.”
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