The toddler found dead in Amalia, New Mexico in tunnel with disabilities and 11 undernourished children almost a month before the Sunspot New Mexico closing for 11 days with allegations of pedophile charges.
This is a continuation of this story told at the end of this article here,
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According to USA Today,
The missing toddler's body was found buried in a 100-foot-long hand-dug dirt tunnel beneath the compound cobbled together by the group.
In court testimony Monday, an FBI agent said two of the oldest children rescued from the compound told him that one of the women believed the dead toddler would be reincarnated as Jesus to attack “corrupt institutions” like banks and schools. Police found multiple loaded rifles and handguns at the compound, which they said had been built to repel an armed attack.
Defense attorneys say the group members who built the compound near Amalia, New Mexico, were simply exercising their Constitutional rights to possess firearms and freely practice their religion. The adult group comprises two sisters and a brother, his wife, and a man who is married to one of the sisters. They are the children's parents or guardians.
What is interesting is it appears not much happened to the abusers.
Why do you suppose that was the case?
In this USA Today article titled,
New Mexico compound: Prosecutors delay charging family accused of causing boy's death
You will find the following,
New Mexico prosecutors delayed the case against five members of a family accused of causing the death of a toddler, saying they will let federal prosecutors temporarily take the lead.
A state grand jury had been scheduled to begin hearing child abuse and potential terrorism evidence against the group Thursday, but the decision by Taos District Attorney Donald Gallegos means federal prosecutors will proceed first with their weapons and conspiracy case against the group. Delaying the state case will avoid any confusion or potential complications, Gallegos said.
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Back to USA Today,
"We will present the cases to a grand jury at a later date, and we will not back down in our efforts to bring justice to the victims in these cases,” he said in a statement.
The five adults being prosecuted are accused of causing the chronically ill toddler's death and keeping 11 other children in squalor in a ramshackle compound near the Colorado-New Mexico border.
That's interesting because the Judge had this to say,
Backus on Monday night ruled that three women and a man could be released and tracked with GPS ankle monitors pending their trial on child-abuse charges in connection with the treatment of their 11 kids kept on the site. As of Tuesday evening, two of the women and one of the men remained jailed at the Taos County Detention Center; the third woman is a Haitian native was turned over to ICE agents, Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told Albuquerque's KOB-TV.
Police say the group members are Muslim extremists preparing an attack by teaching the older kids how to shoot and reload at their homemade firing range. Backus on Monday called the accusations disturbing, but said prosecutors failed to show enough evidence that the group posed a danger.
Isn't that interesting?
Does it seem like a distraction is being caused by the focus on an issue rather than the well being of children and the fact that a toddler was found dead in the alleged perpetrators' care?
Why would they put an Issue Above children? Do you find that odd or is that the norm in far too many cases?
The judge noted that prosecutors in particular failed to present any specific evidence about the children's health or welfare and instead focused on the group's heavy weaponry at the compound.
Prosecutors have not brought any terrorism-related charges against the group, which means Backus was deciding only on the child-abuse charges. Several police officers testified that they own similar hunting rifles and handguns for their personal use.
"The judge's responsibility is to fairly and impartially apply the law and make a decision based on the evidence presented to the court," court officials said in a statement. "A judge's responsibility is to follow the law — not popular sentiment that may develop from incomplete or misleading information."
Backus said much the same in making her ruling Monday night. Gov. Susana Martinez criticized her ruling, arguing that the group was too dangerous to release. Martinez appointed Backus to the bench in 2011.
**In court testimony Monday, an FBI agent said two of the oldest children rescued from the compound told him that one of the women believed the dead toddler would be reincarnated as Jesus to attack “corrupt institutions” like banks and schools. **
Police found multiple loaded rifles and handguns at the compound, which they said had been built to repel an armed attack.
"The state constitution provides that criminal defendants may be detained in jail pretrial only if prosecutors show by clear and convincing evidence that they are so dangerous that no release conditions will reasonably protect public safety," court administrators said in their statement. "People may disagree over what constitutes dangerousness in any given case, and the district attorney can appeal the judge’s decision.
If you go back and look at this article titled,
New Mexico compound: Prosecutors delay charging family accused of causing boy's death
It appears that the bickering back and forth has aided in causing not only a distraction, but has resulted in the case being placed in the hands of the Federal Government.
A state grand jury had been scheduled to begin hearing child abuse and potential terrorism evidence against the group Thursday, but the decision by Taos District Attorney Donald Gallegos means federal prosecutors will proceed first with their weapons and conspiracy case against the group. Delaying the state case will avoid any confusion or potential complications, Gallegos said.
"We will present the cases to a grand jury at a later date, and we will not back down in our efforts to bring justice to the victims in these cases,” he said in a statement.
Gallegos' decision is the latest twist in a case that has drawn international attention.
One of the children told authorities the group’s leader believed the dead child would be reincarnated to launch an attack on banks, schools and other "corrupt" institutions.
The case resulted in an unusually public spat between Gallegos' office and New Mexico state prosecutors over how to proceed. The attorney general argued that his office should take over the child abuse case.
"This case is more complicated because the prosecutors have to use the children as evidence to show they were being turned into terrorists. That's going to be a very complicated issue throughout the court proceeding," New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said. "It puts prosecutors in a very difficult position."
The group from the remote town of Amalia was charged by a federal grand jury with weapons violations and conspiracy. That trial is set to begin in November. Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Lucas Morton, Jany Leveille, Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhannah Wahhaj all remain in federal custody, pending that trial.
The group led by Leveille is accused of keeping the children in horrific conditions without access to adequate food, water or sanitation while they lived in a smelly, hand-built compound surrounded by old tires and trash. The children, ranging in age from 1 to 15, were placed into the custody of the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department after a raid Aug. 4. The children's identities have been kept confidential because they are minors.
Police said the group members were preparing an attack by teaching the older kids how to shoot and reload at a homemade firing range. Defense attorneys said the group members were simply exercising their constitutional rights to possess firearms – all the guns found on the property were bought legally.
The boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, 3, died in the compound, his body cached in a tunnel, police said. An FBI agent who interviewed one of the older children said Leveille believed the boy would be reincarnated.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj is married to Leveille, who federal authorities said is a Haitian national who lacks permission to live in the USA.
The complicated case highlighted a rift between Gallegos and Balderas over who should handle the prosecution. Balderas said his office should have jurisdiction over cases of child abuse resulting in death. Gallegos took offense to the suggestion his office wasn't up to the challenge, and the two exchanged Facebook posts, letters and interviews criticizing each other.
Gallegos, who didn’t return requests for an interview, accused Balderas of grandstanding: "Your grab at headlines to seek more authority and resources for these cases is nothing short of a political stunt and does no good for the community," he wrote in a letter to the attorney general.
Balderas was unapologetic. He argued that Gallegos' office demonstrated that it could use more help. In a detention hearing Aug. 13, a judge ordered the adults freed from custody because prosecutors failed to demonstrate the group posed a risk. Federal prosecutors immediately secured their own indictment and kept all five jailed.
"I'm not afraid to ruffle feathers. We cannot as a community screw up these cases," Balderas said in an interview with USA TODAY. "We have to identify systemic failures along the way, and sometimes that puts agencies into the blame game. I don't make apologies. We're going to push agencies to do a better job."
He said, "Nobody wants a young child being buried in their community and then having the case fall through the cracks."
The federal trial on weapons and conspiracy charges is set to begin Nov. 5. The compound, which the group built on someone else's land, was destroyed.
Yet another article titled states,
Grisly find follows SWAT raid on New Mexico compound where 16 lived in buried RV, truck
AMALIA, N.M. – Tiny pairs of pants, broken-down bikes with training wheels and discarded children’s shoes haphazardly scattered among the homemade-brick walls and a half-buried RV hint at the tragedy and mystery unfolding in this remote community.
Here, down a dirt road scratched through the sagebrush, investigators are trying to piece together why a group of heavily armed Muslims took up residence on property they didn’t own and built a compound from wooden pallets, clear plastic tarps and dirt-filled tires. Investigators also are trying to understand the death of a 3-year-old child, whose body was found buried on the site about four hours south of Denver.
And they’re trying to unravel whether the group had sinister plans after one of the children told authorities he was taught how to fire a rifle in preparation for a school shooting.
All the while, a property owner who says he repeatedly reported the group to authorities is struggling with the guilt that maybe he could have done more – and anger that police didn’t.
Do you find this statement in USA Today interesting?
How did they lack evidence to intervene?
Did they also lack evidence to intervene in the Weiner laptop case?
How about the Hunter Biden laptop case?
Just what does the FBI do to help humanity?
Are they generally helping themselves and their careers?
Who do they Really work for?
Check this out from this same article here in USA Today,
Grisly find follows SWAT raid on New Mexico compound where 16 lived in buried RV, truck
All five of the adults from the compound are black, and the southern Colorado-northern New Mexico area is predominately white. That meant Morton and Wahhaj stuck out when they stopped in at the Costilla Gas & Grocery, the closest store, about as much as the suit-wearing FBI agents did when they came by in May, residents said. At the time, Wahhaj was wanted on the kidnapping warrant, but FBI agents told local law enforcement they lacked evidence to intervene at that time.
People who move to the area often are trying to escape something – the law, the military or a broken relationship, said Mary Helen Trujillo, who owns Garcia Liquors on the Colorado side of the border. Here, people tend to keep to themselves, although neighbors often lend a helping hand when asked. That's how Trujillo met Morton, who she said came in with a neighbor looking for an RV. Trujillo directed them to Preacher Paul.
Like many other area residents, Trujillo said she never saw the kids or the women. Although the Rio Costilla Elementary School is near the town's central crossroads, no one remembers the kids attending. Neighbors say they were also unaware three adult women lived on the site or that so many kids lived there.
Badger said he found the men easy to deal with, at least initially. They even agreed to pay to swap the land title with him so they could just stay on the site, he said. But after months of wrangling, Sirahhj said he couldn't pay the small title fee.
The 10-acre lot is worth less than $8,000, largely because there's no services or infrastructure. Some of the other houses scattered across the field appear to have outhouses, but there's no trash pickup or electrical power.
“Whenever I would go up there and talk to Lucas, he pretty much met me at the road every time. I never saw the living conditions," Badger said. “I never intruded on his privacy. I respected his privacy.”
ver time, Badger grew frustrated the group wasn't following through on its promise to fix the paperwork.
“At that point in time, I said you have to go. And they just didn’t leave," Badger said.
It was about that time Badger says he heard rumors some law enforcement agency was spying on the compound. His curiosity piqued, a quick bit of Googling revealed Sirahhj's outstanding kidnapping warrant and the increasingly anguished Facebook posts by the child's mother. Wahhaj's father is Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a prominent Muslim cleric from the Masjid At Taqwa, a well-known mosque in Brooklyn.
Badger said he alerted local law enforcement and authorities in Georgia who had issued the arrest warrant for Wahhaj. That was in May, he said, and nothing happened – even after he signed a consent form giving police permission to search what was, after all, his property.
Nothing apparently came of that, although that's around the same time a few people remember FBI agents briefly visiting the town.
While the group is detained, Badger has been escorting journalists to the site, which investigators have released back to him. A heavy stench of urine and old trash hangs over the compound. There's no apparent toilet on site. Several Qurans were left out, along with ammunition boxes. The sheriff’s office said Wahhaj was armed with an AR-15 rifle, four pistols and extra ammunition when he was “taken down” by the SWAT team.
From News 4JAX
Published April 7, 2022
Defendants protest trial delays in New Mexico compound raid
SANTA FE, N.M. – A second defendant is invoking the right to a speedy trial in the 2018 raid on a squalid family compound in northern New Mexico that uncovered the remains of a 3-year-old boy and led to charges of kidnapping, firearms and terrorism charges, defense attorneys confirmed Thursday.
Subhanah Wahhaj, one of five defendants who have been incarcerated since the raid, gave birth to a child during her initial months in federal custody. She denies the charges against her and this week notified federal prosecutors and a judge in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque of her right to a trial within a reasonable amount of time after arrest.
“We filed the speedy-trial notice because it’s been (nearly) four years, and based on the evidence in the case we don’t think our client belongs in jail any more,” said Ryan Villa, a court-appointed attorney for Wahhaj.
Sheriff’s deputies and state agents initially found 11 hungry children and a small arsenal of ammunition and guns. After days of searching, they recovered the decomposed remains of the 3-year-old in an underground tunnel.
Trial preparations have been largely suspended without a start date as the court addresses mental health concerns about four defendants. A new court filing indicates three defendants have been found mentally competent to stand trial — Subhanah Wahhaj, sister Hujrah Wahhaj and Haitian national Jany Leveille.
Evaluation and possible treatment is pending for Lucas Morton, the husband of Subhanah.
Subhanah also is the mother of four children taken into state custody during the 2018 raid.
Authorities have said the deceased child, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, suffered from untreated disabilities as father Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his partner Leveille performed daily prayer rituals over him — even as he cried and foamed at the mouth. Authorities also said Leveille believed medication suppressed the group’s Muslim beliefs.
Forensic specialists determined the child died several months prior to the recovery of his body.
A grand jury indictment alleges Leveille and her partner instructed people at the compound to be prepared to engage in jihad and die as martyrs, and that one more relative was invited to bring money and firearms.
All five defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and providing material support to each other as potential terrorists by crossing state lines with firearms and training at the New Mexico compound.
The defendants have denied all charges. Defense attorneys have said their clients would not be facing terrorism-related charges if they were not Muslim.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj also has protested trial delays.
Why is the trial in limbo?
As reported on April 7, 2022
New Mexico terror trial in limbo years after compound raid
Trial preparations have been largely suspended as the court addresses mental health concerns about four defendants. A new court filing indicates three defendants have been found mentally competent to stand trial — Subhanah Wahhaj, sister Hujrah Wahhaj and Haitian national Jany Leveille.
From USA Today on March 10, 2022
New Mexico Terror Trial in Limbo Years After Compound Raid
A federal judge is evaluating the mental health of a woman charged with kidnapping, firearms and terrorism-related counts nearly four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New Mexico compound while recovered the remains of a 3-year-old boy.
Courtroom deliberations about Haitian national Jany Leveille's mental health took place in Albuquerque at a hearing closed from public view, on the request of her lawyers, to consider whether she understand the criminal charges against her, which she has denied. No updates were provided by the court.
An FBI agent previously testified in a preliminary hearing that Leveille’s two teenage sons told authorities they were trained on how to use firearms and defensive tactics by adult relatives at the compound near the tiny community of Amalia not far from the Colorado state line.
The teens also reportedly said the training was taking place in preparation to launch attacks, linked to a future religious resurrection, against government institutions including federal law enforcement and schools, the agent testified.
The deliberations about Leveille’s mental competency took place more than three years after sheriff’s officials and state agents raided the ramshackle encampment in the remote desert surrounded by berms of used tires with an adjacent firing range. They were searching for a sickly 3-year-old who had been reported missing by his mother in Georgia.
Sheriff's deputies and state agents initially found 11 hungry children and a small arsenal of ammunition and guns. After days of searching, they recovered the decomposed remains of the 3-year-old in an underground tunnel.
Mental health concerns about Leveille and three other defendants have contributed to the delay in preparations for their trials, along with disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Prosecutors for the case at the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on recent developments, though they opposed the motion to prevent members of the public from attending Leveille's competency hearing.
She has been described in court documents as a leader of the group of extended family members who settled at the compound in late 2017, including her six children. Leveille has resided in the U.S. for more than 20 years after overstaying her nonimmigrant visitor visa, authorities have said.
She was arrested with four other adult defendants in the raid, days before the child’s body was recovered. All except the deceased boy’s father are charged in the child’s kidnapping. U.S. law generally does not allow authorities to charge parents with kidnapping their own children, except in international cases.
Authorities said the deceased child, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, suffered from untreated disabilities as Leveille and Siraj Ibn Wahhaj performed daily prayer rituals over him — even as he cried and foamed at the mouth.
Authorities also said Leveille believed medication suppressed the group’s Muslim beliefs. Forensic specialists determined the child died several months prior to the recovery of his body.
The FBI agent who interviewed Leveille’s two teenage sons also testified that Leveille expected Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj to be resurrected and provide instruction to get rid of institutions that involve teachers, law enforcement and banks.
Leveille is charged with possessing a firearm while living in the country illegally, while the other suspects have been accused of conspiring to provide her with firearms and ammunition.
A brother of Leveille, living in Haiti, has said the group sought to retreat from mainstream U.S. society and that its use of firearms has been misconstrued.
All five defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and providing material support to each other as potential terrorists by crossing state lines with firearms and training at the New Mexico compound.
The defendants have denied all charges.
Albuquerque-based Chief U.S. District Court Judge William Johnson on Wednesday approved a request from Leveille's lawyer to close public access to the mental competency hearing for Leveille, saying it involves details of medical treatment and sensitive personal and psychological matters.
“The defendant’s interest in keeping these medical and personal matters private and confidential outweigh the public’s interest” in having an open hearing, the judge wrote.
Johnson initially ordered Leveille hospitalized in October 2019 for mental health treatment for up to four months in response to concerns about mental illness.
As reported by the Star Advertiser claimed Associated Press,
Questions raised about timing of New Mexico compound search for missing boy
AMALIA, N.M. >> A property owner questioned Friday why authorities did not search a squalid New Mexico compound sooner for a missing boy, saying he told them in late spring that he had met the child’s father at the site and that the man was wanted in Georgia for kidnapping his own son.
While touring the ramshackle living quarters littered with ammunition, diesel cans, used diapers, household garbage and Qurans on his property, Jason Badger also said he believed he saw the searched-for boy by his father’s side in January, wearing a hooded jacket.
Badger said in an interview that he learned through an online search this spring that Wahhaj was wanted in the disappearance of son Abdul-ghani Wahhaj and reported his earlier encounter to law enforcement authorities in New Mexico and Georgia — and eventually to the FBI.
Authorities did not search the compound for the severely disabled boy until last week in a raid that resulted in the arrest of Wahhaj and four other adults on child neglect charges after 11 other children were found at the compound.
A second search on Monday uncovered a child’s body that hasn’t been positively identified by a state medical examiner, although Wahhaj’s father, also named Siraj Wahhaj, said this week that the body found is his grandson.
“If they knew about it, and then that kid died in that time frame, when they knew, somebody has to be held accountable,” Badger said.
Taos County Sheriff’s Department Steve Fullendorf spokesman downplayed Badger’s criticism of the investigation, saying Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe did everything he could possible under the law and had to follow certain restrictions.
Hogrefe has said the FBI put the New Mexico compound under surveillance in recent months and took photographs, but he could not initially get a warrant to enter because collected did not show the boy or his father.
That changed when a note was forwarded to Georgia authorities saying children inside the compound were starving, Hogrefe said.
The missing boy’s grandfather, who leads a well-known mosque in New York, said his adult daughter, who was in the compound, sent the note to a man in Georgia. That man then notified the grandfather, who said he contacted police.
The five adults, including the imam’s two children and a second adult daughter, have been charged with child abuse stemming from the alleged neglect of the 11 children found living in filth in the compound on the outskirts of tiny Amalia, New Mexico.
Prosecutors also have accused them in court documents of training children to use firearms in preparation for future school shootings, although no charges have been filed in response to the accusation that came from a new foster parent of one of the 11 children removed from the compound.
Wahhaj’s son, Abdul-ghani, was 3 years old when he was abducted from his mother in December in Jonesboro, near Atlanta, authorities said. He has been described as having health problems that require constant attention because of a lack of oxygen and blood flow at birth.
A warrant said the father at some point told his wife he wanted to perform an exorcism on the boy, who suffers seizures and requires constant attention because of a lack of oxygen and blood flow at birth.
The elder Wahhaj said he did not know anything about his son wanting to perform an exorcism on the boy. But he said his son and one of his daughters had become “overly concerned” with the idea of people becoming possessed.
In an interview with WSB-TV in Atlanta, the boy’s mother called for “justice” on Thursday as she described how her life had been taken from her after her son was abducted by his father. She said that was out of character for him.
She and Siraj Ibn Wahhaj had been married almost 14 years, and she said he disappeared after saying he was taking the boy to a park.
“I wasn’t able to save my son,” she said.
Badger owns the property where the Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and the others constructed the makeshift compound around a half-buried camper, walled off by walls of used tires and adobe topped with broken glass. An underground tunnel — big enough to crawl through — led in and out of the compound, which was flanked by an apparent target range. Dozens of spent casings were left behind.
If the allegations of training for shootings is true. . .reminiscent of. . .
William Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse.
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