(23 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guatemala City, Guatemala – 23 December 2024
1. Woman yelling at police from bus carrying minors taken from Lev Tahor sect, UPSOUND (Spanish): "You are heartless"
2. Close of child’s hand on bus
3. Child on bus, seen from behind
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mikhail Goldman, 58, member of ultra-orthodox Jewish sect:
"The youngest girls, those who are 12, 15, 14, we arrange early weddings for them."
5. Various of women with children getting off bus outside government shelter
6. Police officers looking on; sect member filming on phone in background
7. People and police outside shelter; sign reading (Spanish), "Social Welfare Center" in background
8. Woman holding baby
9. Women with babies
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julio Saavedra, state attorney of Guatemala:
"The rescue operation (of the children) was impressive. Buses and vans (were used) to transfer them to the State Attorney’s Office. Reports and psychosocial studies were carried out to the extent possible in order to determine the best course of action in accordance with the law and the rights system."
11. Barbed wire on wall at government shelter
12. Sect members next to bus
13. Various of police and sect members next to buses
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Christian Osorio, member of ultra-orthodox Jewish sect:
"It’s horrible not to be able to be with my children in the peace of my home and to see so many children suffer."
15. Sect member giving interview as others walk away
16. Sect members taking taxi
STORYLINE:
Children from an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect in Guatemala were put again in protective custody Monday after police resisted their families’ efforts to recapture them.
Members of the Lev Tahor group managed Sunday night to take back some of the children and adolescents who had been rescued from the sect’s premises after reports of abuse, but the minors were later recovered by the authorities.
On Friday, Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of the group’s community, taking at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody following abuse allegations.
Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez said the National Civil Police and members of the military participated in the raid on the extremist sect about 55 miles (90 kilometers) southeast of the capital.
Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on the social platform X that suspected bones of one child were found.
The office said a complaint was made in November of possible crimes including forced pregnancies, mistreatment of minors and rape.
The sect has run into legal problems in various countries.
In 2022, Mexican authorities arrested a leader of the sect near the Guatemalan border and removed a number of women and children from their compound.
In 2021, two leaders of the group were convicted of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes in New York.
They allegedly kidnapped two children from their mother to return a 14-year-old girl to an illegal sexual relationship with an adult male.
The sect is known to have members in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala and Israel.
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