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Monday November 9, 2009

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Indictment against rabbi Elior Chen: Shook, beat, fed children feces

The Jerusalem District Prosecution issued an indictment against Elior Chen, known as “the abusive rabbi,” for a series of grave abuse charges he allegedly committed against children in his care.

Chen was not charged with attempted murder, but the indictment claims that he abused and assaulted minors in eight separate cases. In addition, he allegedly encouraged members of the group he led to make “corrections” in their children by shaking, beating, binding, and burning them. He also instructed his followers to withhold food and drink from their children and to feed them excrement.
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Saturday October 17, 2009

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‘Abusive rabbi’ Elior Chen to be extradited to Israel

Chen is wanted in Israel for his involvement in a sadistic cult thought to have committed numerous counts of child abuse.

Chen, a self-styled rabbi, allegedly influenced members of his flock to abuse their children in order to “correct their corrupt souls.”

According to an indictment, the rabbi instructed one mother to conduct “tikkunim” on her children – “meaning, jolting, beating, tying, burning organs, feeding them with faeces, and more.
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Thursday June 5, 2008

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‘Rabbi’ Elior Chen arrested in Brazil

Chen, 29, and his followers are suspected of severely abusing two children, ages three and four, who were beaten with hammers, knives and other implements for months, until the younger child lost consciousness in March.
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Saturday April 19, 2008

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Mother in cult abuse case ordered held until end of trial

The mother reportedly belongs to an ultra-Orthodox group led by a charismatic leader, Elior Chen, who preaches “correcting” children by means of torture.
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Friday April 11, 2008

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Israel issues extradition order against sect leader over child abuse

The Jerusalem police on Friday issued an extradition order against Elior Chen, a spiritual leader who is suspected of orchestrating the worst case of systematic child abuse in Israel’s history.
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Wednesday April 9, 2008

Elior Chen • Shimon Gabai:

Suspect in Jerusalem child abuse arrested

A key suspect in a gruesome Jerusalem child abuse case was arrested Wednesday in a forest on the outskirts of the city, police said. Shimon Gabai was in police custody after the father of the abused children turned him in to police.
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Monday April 7, 2008

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Police to demand extradition of Rabbi believed behind child abuse sect

Israel Police said Monday they will begin extradition proceedings against Rabbi Elior Chen, who fled to Canada shortly after one of his followers was charged with systematic child abuse including burning her toddlers, making them eat feces, and putting them in a suitcase for days.
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Sunday April 6, 2008

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Jerusalem mother charged with child abuse

As her three-and-a-half-year-old comatose son continued to lie in his hospital bed, a Jerusalem woman was indicted Sunday by the Jerusalem District Court of abusing him and his four-and-a-half-year-old brother. The court also indicted a family friend accused of conducting a “tikkun” (exorcism) on the children under the influence of a rabbi who fled to Canada.
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Saturday March 15, 2008

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Parents held in case of Jerusalem child abuse

Police are still not sure who is responsible for the abuse of two small children hospitalized with severe burns and bruises. The boys’ mother admitted the abuse charges under interrogation Wednesday night, but later recanted.
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