A family court judge has said a Jewish father who left an ultra-orthodox community when separating from his wife was accused of allowing their two young children ride their bikes on the Sabbath and watch TV.
Judge Judith Rowe was told by the estranged wife of her concerns about what the kids were allowed to do when they visited their father.
She said she was afraid of them being “exposed to an alien way of life” and of religious rules being broken, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.
Also, they had been allowed to eat non-kosher food, she said. The woman also accused her estranged husband of removing his kippah on Sundays.
Details of the case came to the fore in a ruling by Judge Rowe following family court hearings in London. No one involved has been identified.
