Three adult members of the fringe ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect and six children were stopped in Trinidad and Tobago; the children are now with child-welfare services in Ontario.
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Nine members of the fringe Haredi Orthodox Lev Tahor sect who fled Canada last week were returned to the country.
On Saturday night, Toronto-area police and children’s aid officials greeted the plane carrying three Lev Tahor adults and six children from Trinidad and Tobago. The children were placed in the custody of Chatham-Kent Children’s Services, located about a three-hour drive southwest of Toronto, while border agents processed the adults, according to the Toronto Star.
Members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor fled the country this week with 13 children, days before they were to have appealed a judgement ordering them into foster care.
The children, ranging in age from six months to 15 years, were to having appeared in court Wednesday in Chatham-Kent, Ont., to appeal a Feb 3 order validating a Nov. 27 Quebec court ruling that the children be removed from the community and placed in foster care. That ruling was made after most members of the community had already left their Ste-Agathe-des-Monts homes for Chatham-Kent.
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