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Lev Tahor leaders attempted other kidnappings of the children in/around March 2019 and March 2021, according to the United States Department of Justice.
“As alleged, the defendants engaged in a brazen kidnapping of a minor girl in the middle of the night, taking her across the border to Mexico in order to reunite her with her adult ‘husband’ to continue their sexual relationship,” said Audrey Strauss, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. “These charges send a clear message that the sexual exploitation of children will not be tolerated.”
The United States Department of Justice says the group forces young girls to ‘marry’ older men in the goal of procreation (the marriages are not legitimate), forces them to hide their ‘marriages’ from non-members, to lie about their age, and to give birth in their homes instead of hospitals to hide their age from the public.