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FBI: US couple abducted Israeli to force divorce
NJ couple kidnaps man, beats him, threatens to bury him alive if he refuses to give wife religious divorce
The FBI says a New Jersey couple abducted an Israeli
man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn't give his wife a religious divorce.
Federal authorities say the victim had refused to give his wife a "get," or a divorce sanctioned by the Rabbinical Court, preventing her from remarrying.
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The victim left Israel for the United States. Authorities say David and Judy Wax kidnapped him, robbed him and forced him to say he would grant the divorce.
David Wax is also accused of threatening to have the victim's father killed if he didn't pay the wife $100,000.
A federal magistrate in Trenton, New Jersey released the couple on $500,000 bond. He ordered them to surrender their passports but declined a prosecution request that they wear electronic monitors while free.
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