When Miriam left the Hasidic Jewish community she had to say goodbye to her parents, siblings and children.
The night she fled she knew she would be ostracised. But she didn’t realise that six years on, she would still be untangling herself from a series of complex financial arrangements which risk her going to prison.
In this File on 4 investigation from the BBC, you’ll hear the story of an extraordinary woman whose case puts the financial affairs of one of the most guarded and insular religious communities under the spotlight.
The program appeared on ABC Sunday Extra but as stated there,
“For copyright reasons there will be no podcast or streaming of this program. “
However the episode is available directly from the BBC where it first appeared last November. It can be downloaded there to your heart’s content and there is a full transcript.
When will we hear a report by the ABC of a true scandal of far greater proportions in Britain where police have “recklessly ignored” decades of sexual abuse by predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs on British Sikh women because of “political correctness”, as reported in a bombshell report. Of course never.