Canada and Lev Tahor

Lev Tahor: Of the nearly 200 members of the sect, a half-dozen families remain in Chatham, Ont., where the group has been based since November 2013. The members left in Canada include some of those who have been involved in a custody dispute with the region children services authorities for several months. the fifth estate: Lev Tahor leader Shlomo Helbran refugee case questioned Quebec officials say many more Lev Tahor children could be at risk Guatemalan judge rules Lev Tahor children can stay , according to CBC. The sect picked up and moved to Chatham from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que., last November after Quebec youth protective services known by its French acronym, the DPJ initiated steps to remove 14 of the children . One of the children was a mother to a young child herself. Most of the members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor have moved from Canada to Guatemala amid allegations of child abuse. Radio-Canada sources said the bulk of the families began leaving Canada one by one starting in June to join some of the members involved in the custody battle who had left for Guatemala in March. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.