Three Lev Tahor members were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the kidnapping of children in 2018.
“This was a horrific, horrendous, crime that was committed,” Judge Nelson Roman said on Friday during the sentencing of one of the defendants, Mordechai Malka.
Prior to the sentencing, Malka apologized for his role in the kidnapping but the judge dismissed his remarks, noting his lack of remorse during the trial itself, and sentenced him to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Earlier last week, the judge sentenced Matisyahu Moshe Malka (Mordechai’s brother) and Yaakov Rosner for their roles in the kidnapping. Rosner also expressed remorse for his role in the kidnapping as well as his newfound enlightenment about the cult’s toxicity. His words were apparently perceived as sincere by the judge who released Rosner on account of the time he has served since March 2021.
In contrast, Malka was sentenced to 66 months in prison.
Mordechai Malka’s brothers-in-law, the Weingarten brothers, will be facing trial in the near future. Two of them have already been extradited to the United States from Guatemala in order to face trial.
“I feel bad though,” said Lev Tahor survivor Mendy Levy, who escaped the cult several years ago. “Because Mordechai Malka was not really a bad guy. He was just forced to do what he did by the Weingartens, Nachman Helbrans, and Mayer Rosner.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Another win for the World against This MONSTERS!!
Removes excuses
A Jewish person is only kidnapped when taken, enslaved, and sold by a Jew, nothing else.
So the goy judges are capitalizing on their anti-semitism, giving perverted judgments to innocent people.
A father may take his own child, it is not kidnapping!
it is unfathomable what Mendy levy went through!! and what other boys are still going through!!
Can they at least be placed in general population!!!
This cult needs to be broken up. The poor children are suffering.
It’s not a cult. They are very nice people. Stop attacking them.
Why haven’t these miscreants also been charged with the egregious crime of חילול שבת? Total lack of sense prosecuting & sentencing them for violation of the 8th Commandment of “Thou shalt Not Kidnap” but letting them of the hook for violation of the 4th Commandment of “Thou Shalt Observe the Sabbath”; After all:- Don’t all 10 Commandments have to held up to the same standards & expectations?
@ready
there’s always a open cell next to this monsters for people like you who stick up for them.
We are all brothers from same father. Do you really think hashem likes when you badmouth his beloved children? Stop it now before punishment will reach you from heaven
lets hope that they have a Refiuh Sheleima Bekoorov, sounds very sick………………, whats these Garb for , OH
@ JayD
How much are they paying you, or are you a pedophile yourself?