NEW YORK (UPI) Nine members of a religious sect were arraignedyesterday on charges of beating children with wooden rods andreligious statues and forcing them to beg for money on the streets.
Five children, ages 9 months to 8 years, were in the custody ofthe city's special services office.
Police in pre-dawn raids on two Queens homes rounded up thechildren and their parents, who are members of the Yahweh Temple,also known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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