Felony charges for Taos suspects (NM - Muslim Compound)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | August 25, 2018 | Edmundo Carrillo

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE – The Taos County Sheriff’s Office on Friday charged two adults who were arrested at a makeshift compound near the Colorado border earlier this month with child abuse resulting in death.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and Jany Leveille each were charged with child abuse resulting in death and conspiracy to commit child abuse, according to a news release from Taos County spokesman Steve Fuhlendorf. The charge is a first-degree felony that carries a possible life sentence.

Meanwhile, the Taos District Attorney’s Office has filed a motion to have Taos District Court Judge Sarah Backus reconsider her ruling to release all five adults arrested at the compound on an unsecured appearance bond.

The defendants are all still in the Taos County jail because they haven’t found a suitable place to live.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was being held on a Georgia warrant for allegedly abducting his son in December, but Georgia authorities have declined to extradite him.

Backus heard evidence that the adults, who are Muslim, were telling the children that Abdul-Ghani would be resurrected as Jesus and instruct them on what institutions to destroy.

But Backus explained in her written ruling that she has never considered a defendant’s faith when determining dangerousness.

The Taos DA’s Office asked her to reconsider based on their faith, among other factors.

“The Court in this case should have considered the evidence that these Defendants’ particular views concerning their faith required them to commit violent illegal acts at some unknown time in the future, to attack law enforcement personnel with firearms if such personnel came to their compound, and that they were currently taking active steps to train for that purpose,” Deputy District Attorney Timothy Hasson wrote.

[CedarDave]

Other related stories posted on FR:

Duo tied to New Mexico compound planned attack on Grady hospital, documents show

Two in New Mexico compound planned attack on Grady hospital, documents say

In New Mexico, where life off the grid is common, compound suspects struggled

CNN: Radical New Mexico Compound Family ‘Struggled’

New Mexico Jihadist Cult — We Now Know They Planned to Attack Atlanta Hospital

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[CedarDave]

Comment from this story linked above telling; CNN Fake News:

CNN: Radical New Mexico Compound Family ‘Struggled’

CNN is being slammed for running a less-than-critical headline about the radical New Mexico compound family being accused of training children to commit school shootings. CNN wrote on Sunday that the family “struggled with life off the grid,” and noted in the article that one neighbor of the family remembered seeing “one of the men tenderly wip[ing] the nose of a crying child.”

[AlaskaErik]

The defendants are all still in the Taos County jail because they haven’t found a suitable place to live.

What?! No liberals have stepped forward to offer the hospitality of their homes so these poor misunderstood downtrodden victims can be released from jail?! WTH liberals? Where is your humanity?

[vette6387]

“Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was being held on a Georgia warrant for allegedly abducting his son in December, but Georgia authorities have declined to extradite him.”

Inquiring minds would ask: WHY? But then I have become accustomed to the
“US Justice System” doing the opposite of what a rational human being would do!

[fishtank]

http://www.celebrityhousepictures.com/new-mexico/

[PGalt]

Thanks for the posts/links.

[PGalt]

“Mass shootings, and they’re worried about a chimerical backlash against innocent Muslims that seldom, if ever, materializes. This is why they call CNN fake news.”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/cnn-worries-that-new-mexico-jihad-compound-might-contribute-to-a-rise-in-racism-and-islamophobia

HOORAY Robert Spencer!

[Liberty Valance]

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