{"id":3871,"date":"2014-03-10T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2014-03-10T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:42:30","slug":"two-lev-tahor-children-stopped-at-calgary-airport-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/10\/two-lev-tahor-children-stopped-at-calgary-airport-media-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lev Tahor children stopped at Calgary airport: media reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9055_10151706975272889_1164994842_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3872\" alt=\"9055_10151706975272889_1164994842_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9055_10151706975272889_1164994842_n-300x110.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9055_10151706975272889_1164994842_n-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9055_10151706975272889_1164994842_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Calgary International Airport<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY &#8211; Media reports say two more children belonging to a fringe Jewish sect will be placed in the care of children&#8217;s aid after being stopped at Calgary International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Published reports say a 17-year-old girl and her infant daughter \u2014 both members of Lev Tahor \u2014were met by police Sunday afternoon and will be returned to Ontario at an unspecified time.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police would only tell The Canadian Press they had assisted in the apprehension of two people for Chatham-Kent Children&#8217;s Services.<\/p>\n<p>The children&#8217;s aid agency could not be reached for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At least two Lev Tahor families left Canada for Guatemala last week amid child custody proceedings, but some of them were stopped in Trinidad.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of them were brought back to Canada late Saturday, including six children who were then placed in the care of the Children&#8217;s Aid Society.<\/p>\n<p>Peel Police Sgt. Dave Housdon said the three adults were being processed by the Canada Border Services Agency.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the agency said CBSA &#8220;continues to work closely with local law enforcement agencies on this case,&#8221; but wouldn&#8217;t say whether the three had been released.<\/p>\n<p>The families had filed an appeal in Trinidad against the decision denying them entry but it was rejected because it was made outside the allowable time frame, the country&#8217;s attorney general, Anand Ramlogan, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that decision came after he advised immigration officials on the statutory time limits for appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Early last week, an Ontario judge issued an emergency order that 14 Lev Tahor children be placed in the care of children&#8217;s aid but police said Thursday that most of the children had left the country.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 members of the sect \u2014 114 of them children \u2014 settled in Chatham, Ont., last year after suddenly uprooting from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que.<\/p>\n<p>Child-welfare authorities in Quebec spent a year investigating issues related to hygiene, health, and allegations that the children weren&#8217;t learning according to the provincial curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, a Quebec court ordered that 14 Lev Tahor children be placed in foster care.<\/p>\n<p>The group has denied all allegations of mistreatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Calgary International Airport CALGARY &#8211; Media reports say two more children belonging to a fringe Jewish &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}