Closed Case: how the Bnei Baruch kindergarten story reached the police and was stopped

This image is related to a closed police case involving a kindergarten of Laitman’s organization, where a complaint of sexual abuse of children was dismissed at an early stage, and a key role in neutralizing the complaint points to police officer Ami Liberman, who is a student of Laitman.

The “Global Garden” story, connected to Bnei Baruch, turns on the childcare setting and on what happened when parents tried to move alarming reports out of internal correspondence and into the legal system. In the preserved parents’ correspondence, the subjects included violence, humiliation, unsanitary conditions, poor supervision, and possible sexual abuse among children in the kindergarten.

As long as the conversation stayed inside the community, the leadership could set the terms of the discussion. Once a parent went to the police, the story was no longer only an internal scandal. A family seeking outside review of a child’s safety collided with the reputation defense of a closed group.

What parents described inside the “Global Garden”

The first letter to parents described a setting where children could be left unsupervised, face rough treatment, and remain in unsafe physical conditions. The letter also referred to episodes that the writers connected to possible sexual abuse among children inside the kindergarten.

Before any legal classification, reports like that called for external review: interviews, document collection, risk assessment, and a clear answer to parents. Instead, the discussion quickly moved into arguments about loyalty, the correct reaction, and preserving unity around the group.

The correspondence also shows why outside review was hard to demand. Parents feared for their children and for their place in the surrounding community. The threat of expulsion from the “spiritual family,” the loss of ties, and social isolation turned a simple parental question - what happened to my child? - into a loyalty test.

How the crisis was translated into the language of a “spiritual test”

In the letters and parent responses, the language of spiritual work recurs: “correct intention,” “rising above the situation,” and not damaging unity. At the moment when concrete facts needed to be checked, that language shifted the conversation toward faith and obedience.

That vocabulary changes the question. When reports of fear, trauma, humiliation, and possible sexual abuse are described as a “test,” responsibility becomes vague. Instead of asking who allowed the risk and what had to be done immediately, the question becomes whether the parents are reacting spiritually enough.

A later letter from the Bnei Baruch directorate separated Laitman from the details of what happened: according to the letter, he was concerned about the state of the kindergarten but did not know the content of the points sent in his name. For the parents, that did not answer the main question: who was responsible for the children’s safety, and why were the warning signs not immediately sent to outside review?

How the complaint reached the police and why the case was closed

The turning point came when one of the parents, Benny Kogan, went to the Petah Tikva police. From that moment, the issue entered law enforcement. Under ordinary circumstances, reports of violence in a kindergarten should have triggered formal steps: interviews, document collection, identification of responsible people, and a review of how the administration had responded to early warning signs.

According to the version laid out in the project’s materials, a key role in quickly neutralizing the complaint was played by organization member and police employee Ami Liberman, who had connections inside the system. If that version is accurate, the police channel did not operate as outside review; it helped contain the complaint.

No publicly visible investigation followed. According to the project, police did not carry out the sequence of questioning and case development expected when reports of violence against children arise. The complaint was closed at an early stage.

Why this episode matters for the wider structure

The complaint was closed. The family that took the issue outside was cut off from the environment to which it had belonged.

Afterward, according to the Kogan family, the punishment came from the organization itself: they and their child were expelled from the Bnei Baruch environment for going to the police. The family says they were placed on internal blacklists, and group members were effectively told not to maintain contact with them. For the family, the request for outside protection ended in isolation.