Following the Lev Tahor cult affair, the leaders of the extremist ultra-Orthodox sect are stopping at nothing to advance their goals, after more than 200 children, teenagers and women were rescued from the sect's compound in Guatemala.
Lev Tahor women crying upon command
In a video published on local television, Uriel Goldman, one of the sect leaders, is seen looking for a woman who could be interviewed in Spanish. One woman supposedly volunteered and during the interview she cried in front of the camera, as she was instructed.
Officials in Guatemala say that the women were ordered to cry in front of the cameras.
"No woman is happy to cry on camera live, they simply had no choice, they are in an unimaginable psychological captivity," the sources said.
In the video, Goldman can be heard saying: "Who can speak Spanish, come on, come on, please speak." Goldman explained to the women that many people were watching them and therefore it was important for them to speak. Naturally, they did not refuse the demand of one of the cult leaders.
Young mothers are starving their children to pressure the authorities to release them, after receiving explicit instructions to do so
The authorities in Guatemala are holding 160 children and teenagers and dozens of women in welfare facilities after it was discovered that they were being abused and starved. Young mothers are starving their children to pressure the authorities to release them, after receiving explicit instructions to do so.
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Recently, members of the cult have been demonstrating near the facility where the rescued people are being held. The aim of the demonstrations is to pressure the country's welfare authorities, who separated the mothers from their children.
According to the same sources: "They were told not to eat anything, to starve themselves, to harm themselves and all sorts of things, in order to pressure on the authorities."