US arrests Jewish sect members for kidnapping children
Four members of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala have been arrested in New York on charges of kidnapping two children, federal prosecutors have said.
According to a statement issued Friday by the US Attorney's Office from the Southern District of New York, the four men are members of Lev Ahor, which practices a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism with teachings that include veiling women from head to toe in black tunics.
One of the men, Aron Rosner, 45, who lives in Brooklyn, was arrested on December 23.
The other three -- Nachman Helbrans, 36, alleged to be the leader of the sect, and Mayer Rosner and Jacob Rosner, aged 42 and 20 respectively, all living in Guatemala -- were deported on Thursday from Mexico, where they had taken the children, and arrested on their arrival in New York the same day.
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