Baby who failed to say 'Amen' starved by cult: court
The leader of a US religious cult was "outraged" when a one-year-old boy did not say "Amen" before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
Three members of the now-defunct cult known as 1 Mind Ministries are on trial for murder in the death of Javon Thompson, who was around 16-months-old when he died of starvation and dehydration in either December 2006 or January 2007, according to authorities.
After the boy died, the cult members prayed for his resurrection, then destroyed all evidence of his death and stuffed his body in a suitcase, which they hid in a shed behind a home in Philadelphia, Assistant State's Attorney Julie Drake told jurors.
Spare the rod and spoil the child, eh? More like, using religion as a weapon against a child, and then trying to cover their own behinds because they knew it was wrong.
(An epic battle of wills with a one year old? A one year old religious heretic? At one year old! The child could just about talk in the first place at that age--that's hard-core delusion, right there.)
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