Six Youths Taken from Adoptive Home After One Calls Into Podcast with Terrifying Story

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To the world, Hayim Cohen projected an image of a joyful, if unconventional, Texas family in which a single man takes in nine foster sons and raises them in a household filled with Jewish traditions.

New allegations paint that picture as a façade that hid a troubling story.

“This was a household of boys that were extremely abused and neglected, groomed. They were threatened. They were in fear of their safety, and he utilized a grooming of the community,” Harris County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Janna Oswald said in court Friday, according to KTRK-TV.

“His grooming was not just of a child, but also the people around the children in the most offensive way,” Oswald said.

Cohen was arrested earlier this month and charged with continuous sex abuse of a child and sexual assault of a child under 17 years old, according to KXXV.

KTRK reported that on Friday, eight new charges were filed against him.

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