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Tuesday, December 01, 2020 

How did a Lev Tahor cult leader manage to escape Israel back to Guatemala?

One of the most hateful members of the Islamized Haredi cult called Lev Tahor, several of whom were arrested for child abuse and other forms of violence, has somehow managed to flee Israel for Guatemala:
A member of the Hasidic Lev Tahor cult has escaped Israel and traveled to Guatemala, his lawyer said Tuesday, six months after he was indicted for abusive behavior against 9- and 10-year-old children.

Rabbi Elazar Rompler, 46, was charged in May at the Jerusalem District Court with assaulting and abusing children mentally and physically in 2009-2011
, when he served as the principal of a school belonging to the fringe community in Canada. [...]

Rompler left a 17-page letter with his lawyer, Gabriel Tronisoili, who updated the court on the development Tuesday, shortly before a hearing that had been scheduled in the case.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Rompler managed to leave Israel. [...]

Rompler was arrested in December 2019 after arriving in Israel for unspecified reasons.

But despite having an order against him barring him from leaving Israel, Rompler managed to travel to Guatemala, claiming he wouldn’t receive a fair trial and that he wanted to see his family.

“He emphasizes that this isn’t out of disrespect for the court, but due to his feeling that in light of pressure on him and on everything to do with Lev Tahor, he won’t receive a fair trial and will be forced to go through a prolonged legal proceeding while under restrictive conditions and unable to see his wife and kids,” Tronisoili wrote in a document handed to the court.

Tronisoili asked the court to delay the hearing. Prosecutors asked for 30 days to look into the matter.
It would seem the authorities took no proper enforcement steps to ensure he'd remain in prison without bail where he belongs, until his sentencing could come up. Although the airport authorities are surely to blame too, if they failed to check his status before he could board a plane. I hope the monster can be tracked down again and brought back. But if police didn't enforce restrictions against some child molesters in Mea Shearim, it figures this could've happened too. This is atrocious, and now, Israeli authorities are going to have to do what they can to minimize the damage caused by another case where lenient approaches are taken with Haredi offenders.

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