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Rav Shternbuch has a teshuvah in Teshuvos V’Hanhagos the other way around. A grown child who was chozer b’teshuvah and married and had a family asked the following question:
When they take their kids to visit their non-religious grandparents, the grandchildren watch TV (which the frum parents don’t approve of). The sheilah was can/should they break the TV so the kids can’t watch it?
Rav Shternbuch answers that you can’t break other people’s property, even though TV is a very bad thing. He suggests talking to the grandparents and asking them to make some accommodation.
Not to belabor this issue, but the Shulchan Aruch in Yoreh Deah poskens quite clearly like the Rambam mentioned above regarding Niddas holding or reading from a Sefer Torah. The Rema may be machmir, or he may actually disagree lhalacha. I’ll have to look into it further.
Englishman, while I agree in general that there is little kavod in selling a sefer to such a place, why do you keep harping on niddos? There’s no particular issur for a niddah to lein or even handle a sefer Torah.
I would venture to guess that the most common prohibition transgressed would be people handling it who aren’t dressed properly.