Police detectives trying to investigate human trafficking and forgery in the Lev Tahor haredi cult
in 2013, then located in rural Quebec, Canada, blocked province child
protection workers from removing children from the cult – children who
were allegedly being sexually, physically and emotionally abused, forced
into child marriage, and otherwise hurt by cult leaders.
Cops wanted to get enough information from inside the closed cult (and through discovery of forged visas, etc.) to prosecute cult leaders. The decision to wait was especially bizarre because the cult had a history of fleeing and because the cult's leader, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, is a convicted kidnapper of a child.
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2015/07/report-cops-blocked-child-protection-workers-from-protecting-lev-tahor-haredi-cult-kids-789.html
Cops wanted to get enough information from inside the closed cult (and through discovery of forged visas, etc.) to prosecute cult leaders. The decision to wait was especially bizarre because the cult had a history of fleeing and because the cult's leader, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, is a convicted kidnapper of a child.
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2015/07/report-cops-blocked-child-protection-workers-from-protecting-lev-tahor-haredi-cult-kids-789.html