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  Tot Starved to Death for Not Saying Amen

By Adrian Shaw
Mirror
February 24, 2010

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/24/tot-starved-to-death-for-not-saying-amen-115875-22065906/

BALTIMORE (MD) -- Cult leaders' murder rap

A boy aged one denied food by a cult for not saying "Amen" at meals slowly starved to death, a trial has heard.

The sect leader, who called herself Queen Antoinette, ordered followers not to feed Javon Thompson until he said the blessing, jurors heard. The baby's mum Ria Ramkissoon, part of the 1 Mind Ministries group, did nothing to help the tot as he slipped to a slow and agonising death.

She later bizarrely prayed for his resurrection. Attorney Julie Drake told the hearing in Baltimore, USA: "In full view of every member of that household, Javon wasted away.

"If this little boy ever had the capacity to say 'Amen', he surely lost it. He couldn't say anything." After the tot's death three years ago the cult destroyed all clues and dumped his body in a suitcase in a shed at their Philadelphia apartment HQ, Antoinette, daughter Trevia Williams, 22, and Marcus Cobbs, 23, deny murder.

Ramkissoon last year admitted child abuse and will testify against them. The case continues.

 
 

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