The acts of abuse include violently throwing the children around by their arms and legs, leaving a child in an electric oven until his hair burned, placing a child in a suitcase for three days, feeding a child excrement and other extreme acts of abuse.
The cult leader’s trial is still ongoing.
A disciple of accused cult leader Elior Chen was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to shaking, burning and tying up her eight children.
The woman, identified only as M., received a lenient sentence in exchange for testifying against Chen and others.
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.
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.