UPDATE:: As I noted information concerning this incident is going to be bandied about willy-nilly. Determining what is actually transpiring may be difficult. Case in point the following Three released from jail in New Mexico compound case BUT New Mexico compound gang arrested by FBI. So which is it?David McAfee has done a good job of sifting through what is known concerning this case. He has done a good job of keeping hyperbole to a minimum and only reporting what is known. Sadly, I have seen extremes for both ends of the political and religious spectrum making it difficult to sift through information.
Actually both,
The two men and three women, residents at a site where 11 starving children and the buried remains of a toddler were found, face conspiracy charges.This case is going be a bit difficult to track as there are many facets besides the death of a young boy possibly due to religious belief.
Child abuse charges against the five were dismissed after a 10-day limit for a hearing was missed by prosecutors.
They will now remain in custody pending a hearing in federal court on Tuesday.
The charges include unlawful possession of firearms by an illegal immigrant, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and aiding and abetting in the committing of an offence, the FBI said in a statement on Friday.
This story is still developing with some conflicting reports as to what was occurring at this "compound". Neglect of children appears obvious but beyond that it gets a bit murky.Authorities in New Mexico were looking for a missing three-year-old child, but they ended up discovering a Muslim extremist’s compound where he and others were training young kids to commit school shootings.
They ultimately found the boy… but only after he was killed in what they’re calling a “religious ritual.”
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This case includes elements of religious extremism, death by spiritual rite, cult seclusion, and even school shootings. If we’re playing Religious Fundamentalism Bingo, everyone just filled up their cards. Even when some Americans say they want to make it easier for people to get guns, this probably isn’t what they have in mind.It’s also worth noting that Muslim extremism, a violent philosophy justified by fundamentalist interpretations of the Qur’an, runs in Wahhaj’s family. He’s the son of a controversial Brooklyn imam once accused of conspiring to commit the tragic attacks on 9/11. His father also goes by Siraj Wahhaj, and he was named but not charged in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
UPDATE:: Man arrested at New Mexico compound was training children to commit school shootings, court documents show
Details are beginning to emerge since this original story,,,Court documents in the case of the children found living in a makeshift New Mexico compound say one of the men arrested on child abuse charges was training the children to commit school shootings, according to The Associated Press.
A raid on a New Mexico desert compound turned up 11 children wearing rags and living in filth, and also broke open a bizarre tale of guns, exorcism, and a search for a missing young boy who suffers from seizures and is nowhere to be found.Kids found in rags in New Mexico amid tale of guns, exorcism | Fox News
The boy's father was among five people arrested after the raid near the border with Colorado. Documents made public in a court filing Monday said the father told the boy's mother before fleeing Georgia that he wanted to perform an exorcism on the child because he believed he was possessed by the devil.
Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said deputies arrested the father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, and four other adults on child abuse charges after finding the 11 children Friday inside a makeshift compound in the tiny community of Amalia. It was littered with "odorous trash" and lacking clean water, authorities said.
See also:: Searching for Missing 3-Year-Old, Authorities Find His Dad with 11 Kids in 'Filthy' Compound
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