Israeli police have arrested five people, including an American rabbi who heads a yeshiva, for allegedly running an international baby trafficking ring that targeted mentally disabled mothers:
The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday identified the rabbi as Shmuel Puretz, 44, a businessman who divides his time between New York and Jerusalem, according to The Times of Israel. He and at least four other suspects were arrested in February, but details of the three-year investigation against them had been subject to a gag order until the court lifted parts of it on Thursday.
All the suspects have been released pending an indictment and trial.
Puretz, who denies the allegations, is accused of sending Israeli expectant mothers in need or suffering from a mental disability from within haredi Orthodox communities to the United States so they would give birth there. The babies would be given to childless foster parents who allegedly paid Puretz and others for the babies.
Many details about the affair, including how much money the handlers allegedly charged, are still subject to a gag order.
Yediot Aharanot reported in a 2017 expose about the affair that they charged a $100,000 to $150,000 “handling fee” per child.
One alleged accomplice is Rivkah Segal, a rabbi’s wife from Migdal Haemek, a city in northern Israel. She is suspected of abusing her legal guardianship over an expectant mother with mental health problems. The mother said that Segal had her flown to New York highly pregnant, deliver a boy in a Caesarian procedure and had him taken from her.
Segal denied the charges. But an Israeli court last week ruled she should pay that mother $144,000 in damages.
Of course, the couples who are buying these black market babies are completely unaware that the mothers are suffering from mental illnesses. But then again, Jews in general suffer from much higher rates of mental illness that the general public, so perhaps the jewish adoptive parents won’t notice they’ve bought defective merchandise.
So-called ‘religious’ Jews have a long history with making illicit money off of human trafficking, so none of this should be surprising in the least, especially if you are familiar with The Talmud.
In another recent case, Israelis have been accused of trafficking babies from Nepal to sell to childless homosexual couples looking to adopt.
And let’s not forget that Jews have been caught repeatedly engaging in the trafficking of children in vast international prostitution rings. If you are starting to notice a pattern of behavior here, you are probably an ‘antisemite’ who should seek professional help.
A good question is how and why “mentally disabled” mothers are getting pregnant in the first place, but since this is within the jewish community I frankly don’t care.
A jew caught selling jew babies – born to mentally ill jews – to jewish couples…sounds like a win-win for us. This ‘rabbi’ couldn’t possibly get more than a slap on the wrist for this. Oh yeah, he didn’t do this to goyim. He may have to pay a penalty. Hopefully it’s only a fine that he can easily pay for out of his greasy earnings so he can get right back to work.
Well, when Jews victimize other Jews, a la Bernie Madoff, that’s a big no-no. Fleece the goyim all you want, and our well-place, sympathetic judges will give you a slap on the wrist with a wink and a nod.
Wherever there’s a dollar.