Canadian Press NewsAlert:Ontario judge orders Lev Tahor kids be returned to Quebec

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Lev Tahor community spokesman Uriel Goldman walks to the courthouse for the child custody case decision in Chatham, Ont. Monday, Feb. 3, 2014.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley

CHATHAM, Ont. – An Ontario judge has ruled that children from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, who left Quebec while the community was being investigated by social services, should be returned to that province.

Members of the Lev Tahor community, in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que., were under investigation late last year for issues including hygiene, children’s health and allegations that the children weren’t learning according to the provincial curriculum.

The judge has put a 30-day stay on the order to give the families a chance to appeal.

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