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↑ HH613 ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 2:28 am

Mama Bear wrote:

he was never written up in mishpacha or ami.

He was written up in Aish and the Jewish press.

Ok I definitely remember reading from one of those 2 magazines (I don’t read Aish or the Jewish press) about a single chassidish man who adopted/fostered a bunch of boys. Is there another one??

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 2:49 am

Chickensoupprof wrote:

Just read this and OMG... What a story and thanks to mamabear I have more things.
Can't understand why these things can happen in the USA. Here in the NL, the CPS, law enforcement, and mental health organizations are involved when you are going to be a foster parent. Plus they will come to your house, you are obliged to certain training beforehand and you need to get coaching and go to coaching stuff if you don't do that you will be dismissed. No income, severe illness? You can't be a foster parent here, you have a criminal record? Forget it. And they will found out.
Do you want to adopt? Well, you need to go through so much more and do more screenings... Why is the US so behind these things? Is it like I can go from Alabama to Washington and start all over again?

I've seen these kids sometimes on TikTok and I found it a bit strange. They looked chassidish, but more like Purim chassidish... It was off to see peyos with a giant picture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe instead of something else and I met and I know chassidishe mummies from Antwerp, London, Manchester who are on WhatsApp/Instagram but no way they will expose their kids to that.

And the worst is, they look Jewish and are posing as Jews antisemites don't see a difference and don't care if they were Jews according to halacha.

Even in countries where laws are for more stringent for foster care it is well known that foster kids slip between the cracks.
I believe there's a lack of foster families in all counties in the western world.
Kids that are from dysfunctional homes and that very few wants to take care of. It's so sad.

Living Princess

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 2:53 am

Peyos from the dollar story - guaranteed they're fake just like everything else about him.

↑ HH613

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 3:00 am

What was the point of pretending to be Jewish if they stayed to themselves (didn’t go to shul etc)

freilich

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 3:50 am

BusyMom24/7 wrote:

How do we know the illness was just a hoax? Why would he go through surgery and need feeding tubes and wheelchair just for fake??
What did he gain by pretending he is ill??

Also how do they know so much about Judaism if they aren't even Jews?

He looks quite healthy. What a sicko. There are no words. I just hope the word will be out that he is not Jewish. I don't see any references in the articles posted that he was a fraudster about his religion.

ora_43

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:17 am

Chickensoupprof wrote:

Here in the NL, the CPS, law enforcement, and mental health organizations are involved when you are going to be a foster parent. Plus they will come to your house, you are obliged to certain training beforehand and you need to get coaching and go to coaching stuff if you don't do that you will be dismissed. No income, severe illness? You can't be a foster parent here, you have a criminal record? Forget it. And they will found out.
Do you want to adopt? Well, you need to go through so much more and do more screenings... Why is the US so behind these things?

All of those things are true in the US as well. The problems are elsewhere.

If I had to guess - overwhelming caseloads are a big issue. It makes it hard for the people who are in charge of supervision to adequately look at each and every family.

There also seems to have been a lack of adequate investigation/communication in everything involving the police. Yes, they questioned the kids in the home, but the kids were so isolated for so long, there need to be special procedures in place for that kind of thing.

↑ missknowitall ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:25 am

BusyMom24/7 wrote:

The kids said it was fake. And he did it to stay out of jail for his 2019 court case.

cransky ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 5:59 am

Gosh this is crazy. I came across their account on tik tok a few years ago and immediately felt something was very wrong. I wish there's some way we can help these poor children

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:02 am

Chickensoupprof wrote:

1) All of these things were being done in this case: the coaching and the visits from CPS . While they were visiting they looked totally wholesome and cared for. The moment they left, the abuse happened. Mostly at night. He has income, from real estate. The 'severe illness' only started a year ago. The criminal record? The judge inexplicably was on his side. Probably bc he was afraid of being labeled an antisemite!!!!!

2) Yes, that bothers me the most of all, that the people online (mostly young idiots), do not realize/want to admit that he is not Jewish, and are spewing all kinds of hatred on social media. "Abusing kids is the most Jewish thing you can do." "Raping non jewish kids is a holy thing for Jews" and other nonsense. Ugh.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:06 am

HH613 wrote:

What was the point of pretending to be Jewish if they stayed to themselves (didn’t go to shul etc)

For two reasons. One, the judges would be more wary to incriminate him, bc they would be afraid of the whole Jewish world coming to his defense and screaming anti semitism. Two, bc no one would suspect that this very very religious looking family is a pedo den.

Ironically, the publicity and faux Judaism is what made it way more suspicious, had he pretended to be a religious Christian.

I'm surprised his own family didnt turn him in. His siblings, cousins etc all know he is a complete hoax; the 2 youngest ones are his nephews. I dont understand how they didnt raise an outcry.

watergirl ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:12 am

Mama Bear wrote:

Also, Texas is a very religious state, it's the end of the Bible Belt, and he was able to get away with it there. Texans love Israel and Jews.

pause

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:25 am

I listened to the podcast linked. The kid doesn't get onto the line at all. Someone else is reading his messages.

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:26 am

Mama Bear wrote:

I dont think he has a feeding tube or had surgeries. Mostly it's just the wheelchair and looking out of it.
They know a lot about judaism by reading and studying. some of the older boys actually did a homeschool program in Judaism. The oldest is particularly learned; he once put up a video of baking challah, and he took challah and said the bracha perfectly under his breath, without even a siddur. I often wonder if the oldest 2 arent jewish. Who knows.

THe whole story, as they say in yiddish, shtinkt fin kup.

btw, I did not find the comment that was posted here on facebook. I searched that post and didnt find it.
I can bet it was Hayim JEffrey himself who posted it, pretending to be Avichai.

I also heard that Avshalom and Avichai might be held liable for aiding and abetting the abuse once they were no longer minors. I hope that won't 'come to pass, as they are victims too.

I'm amazed that what the oldest 3 didnt manage to do - blow the whistle hard enough to get jeffrey arrested - Shmariyahu managed to do. He is extremely smart, shrewd, and has his wits about. Jeffrey was angry at him a lot, bc he kept hinting to ppl about the abuse, and kept making escape plans.

I am SO HAPPY they are finally out of there.

Hopefully we'll have new information on the 2/23 hearing.
;
What a crazy story. It sounds like a fiction movie.

So the kids knew they weren't Jewish but they faked it? Why would they do that?

↑ missknowitall ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:26 am

Anyone else think it’s bigger than just him? He had a lawyer and psychiatrist covering for him. Maybe someone in cps too. Smells like a pedophile ring to me. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was filming and selling it. I hope they look into all those people and search for p-rn.

↑ missknowitall ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:27 am

pause wrote:

I listened to the podcast linked. The kid doesn't get onto the line at all. Someone else is reading his messages.

He comes on after a few minutes

↑ missknowitall ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:28 am

Blessing1 wrote:

So the kids knew they weren't Jewish but they faked it? Why would they do that?

They didn’t have a choice. And they might not know what being a real Jew is. They were broken kids from the foster system and he medicated all of them.

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:43 am

missknowitall wrote:

They didn’t have a choice. And they might not know what being a real Jew is. They were broken kids from the foster system and he medicated all of them.

I hope it will come out in court that they're not really jewish.
I hope the older kids won't be charged as accomplices.
This whole situation is so horrific and tragic.

↑ watergirl ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:45 am

Funny story. I once lived in a very small town. There were two men in the back of the shul who looked like they googled "orthodox Jew" and dressed like whatever popped up. They got the nuance of the hats wrong, etc. And our shul was MO and not a vacation spot, so anyone coming in with a black hat was already suspect. The rabbi called me over (I worked for the shul) and pointed them out to me and asked me to find out more about them. So, I went over and shmoozed with them and dropped a bunch of heimish terms that someone in a black hat should know, like cholent. They were missionaries, and not very good ones. They gave it away quickly, and we got them out.

But this family kept to themselves, so anyone who saw them on Tiktok (like me) and knew they were fake just by the look of them, most likely felt like I did - they are isolated and not bothering anyone. So I can see how they would not get on people's radar.

Considering they came up around the same time the whole Josh Duggar thing became a known thing... I can see how they would be missed.

↑ Chickensoupprof ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 7:07 am

Mama Bear wrote:

watergirl wrote:

Also, Texas is a very religious state, it's the end of the Bible Belt, and he was able to get away with it there. Texans love Israel and Jews.

Think there is a ring of truth here. How I witness especially the American Jewish world reacting on antisemitism is pretty harsh. There are lots of frum antisemitism advocates, even things that from my European perspective are not antisemitism according to American advocacies the smallest things are almost considered a razzia. I'm exaggerating though but there are things that I only read here from a more American perspective which is not even close to the UK/European narrative. It is even that in The Netherlands antisemitism advocacy is more a thing for the secular, reform, and conservative Jews or Israelis who are not frum plus Xtians.

Plus, I totally can understand that a far Xtian place who loves Israel and Jews are having this man on a pedestal and throw money at this person. That is what some of xtians do.

Some Xtians are really happy to have a Jew out of the open. And as Watergirl said there are people who dress up wrongly as Jews. Missionaries or not. They are there I think the family cut ties with them apperently...
Also never forget dressing as a devout religious person helps, everyone will distrust a hobo, or someone who does 'strange' out of the open. How do you think there was so much s-xual abuse in the Roman Catholic church?

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 7:39 am

missknowitall wrote:

Please please please there is no need to speculate. I hope police investigation is thorough but frankly there is no need and no toelet in speculation.
How would *you* feel if someone close to your or family was involved in something illegal or unpleasant and people started to speculate??
Speculation doesn't help victims *at all*!

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