"A cult leader convicted of the starvation death of a toddler in Baltimore has been sentenced to 50 years in prison by a judge who called her a manipulator of lost souls....
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FLASHBACK:
"Mother in starvation death gets probation" by Associated Press | April 22, 2010
BALTIMORE — A woman who starved her 1-year-old son to death at the behest of a religious cult leader was given a sentence yesterday that won’t require her to serve any more jail time.
Ria Ramkissoon, 23, pleaded guilty last year to child abuse resulting in the death of Javon Thompson. She admitted denying food and water to the 16-month-old child when he did not say “Amen’’ before a meal. Javon wasted away over the course of a week before his heart stopped.
That is a horrible way to die, and it is torture.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy J. Doory suspended the balance of Ramkissoon’s 20-year sentence and ordered her to report to a residential treatment facility for young women. The treatment program includes Bible study, and Ramkissoon will be required to complete the program, which doesn’t have a specified length, before she can live on her own....
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At the time of Javon’s death, Ramkissoon was living with a small religious cult led by a woman who calls herself Queen Antoinette. She told Ramkissoon that the child had “a spirit of rebellion’’ inside him and that denying him food would cure him.
THEY ALL DO!
That is what BEING a KID is until adults drum it out of them and make them GROW UP!
That is why I am JEALOUS of KIDS NOW!
A jury convicted Antoinette, her daughter Trevia Williams, and another follower, Marcus A. Cobbs, of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.
But NO MORE JAIL?
Ramkissoon’s attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said the swift verdict against Antoinette, Williams, and Cobbs helped his client understand what the cult had done to her and her son.
I don't know what to say. Just shaking my head.
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