Former Satmar member commits suicide
A woman who once grew up in the Satmar clan and whose parents abused her with drugs sadly committed suicide:
A former member of the Satmar hassidic sect who publicly exposed the traumatic experience of being drugged by her parents to prevent her from leaving the sect or questioning her religious beliefs, took her own life at the age of 22 last week.The article goes on to indicate clans like Satmar have such a problem with anyone expressing sexual desire, they send them to "psychiatric experts" and such. It's truly disgusting, and now they've cost an innocent woman her sanity and life.
Only three months before her death, Chaya Weller had alleged that she was given anti-psychotic drugs not prescribed by a medical professional or psychiatrist, and was interviewed on Channel 12 about her experiences.
Weller recounted in the interview the trauma she felt at the hands of her family, which she says originated when she questioned her religious beliefs in a conversation with her mother, and matters devolved to the point that some time later she ran away from her home.
When she eventually returned home, she was taken to an haredi "businessman," who proceeded to give her anti-psychotic sedatives, which she thought were supposed to improve her mood.
"I didn't understand what was going on with the side effects,” Weller told Channel 12. “I didn't understand why I was depressed, crying all the time, couldn't move from my bed, sleeping all the time. I didn't even realize it had to do with the pills. Only when my mother realized [what was happening], she brought me back to the haredi 'businessman' – and he admitted he gave me the pills so I wouldn't run away from home."
Following the revelation, she left her home again and returned to both her home and her religion after about two years. Her parents immediately arranged a marriage for her. This convinced Weller to leave, saying it gave her the "courage to break up with the family and leave religion forever."
"Today I live in an apartment with roommates," she said in the interview with Channel 12, just three months before her death. "I'm going through an uneasy emotional process. I am dealing with all the traumas I went through as a child. I maintain contact with my family, but it is mostly technical. My relationship with them is not good, but there isn't a total disconnect."
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