Three brothers formerly from Monsey face up to 30 years in prison after being convicted in Federal Court Wednesday in the 2018 kidnapping of two children. They were part of a fringe sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism called Lev Tahor. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams says Yoil, Yakov, and Shmiel Weingarten were found guilty of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl and taking the girl outside the United States to continue a sexual relationship with her adult male ‘husband.’ Williams said they helped foster forced child marriages, physical beatings, and family separations, causing “irreparable harm to children in their formative years.” Sentencing is scheduled for July 9th.