Members of Lev Tahor Chasidic Cult on trial for Kidnapping and child exploitation plot

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Chasidic cult life on trial, read Life inside Lev Tahor, leaders' alleged plot to kidnap 2 children detailed by witness (link). Excerpts below:

But two months later, the Monsey native said he agreed to take part in a plot by Lev Tahor leaders to kidnap the 14-year-old granddaughter and 12-year-old grandson of the group's founder. Their mother, Sara Helbrans, had fled Lev Tahor with several of her kids after disapproving of the forced marriage of the underage girl.
Malka, now 24, was a key prosecution witness last week in White Plains federal court at the trial of Shmiel, Yoil and Yakov Weingarten, brothers and Rockland County natives who are the last of nine Lev Tahor members charged in the kidnapping and child exploitation plot.

I suppose some like to live life as it was in medieval Poland. This is supposed to be a country where people are free.