http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23850/one-mind-ministries-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23850/one-mind-ministries-3#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:48:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23850 A former member of a religious cult backed out of a plea deal Friday and will face trial on charges that he and others starved a toddler to death because the boy refused to say "Amen" after meals.

Marcus A. Cobbs, 22, had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea after a dispute with prosecutors over the conditions of his release.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23850/one-mind-ministries-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23845/one-mind-ministries-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23845/one-mind-ministries-2#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:21:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23845 A member of the now defunct religious cult One Mind Ministries is planning to plead guilty to a reduced charge related to the starvation death of 1-year-old Javon Thompson.

The attorney for Marcus Cobbs says he will plead guilty Friday to accessory after the fact, according to the Associated Press.

The boy's mother and several other members of the cult were charged in connection with the boy's death, who was allegedly starved because he would not say 'Amen' after meals.

A trial for the other members has been postponed until January 27.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23845/one-mind-ministries-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23513/one-mind-ministries-trial http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23513/one-mind-ministries-trial#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:51:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23513 Two cult of four cult members scheduled to stand trial in the starvation death of a child have yet to hire lawyers.

The 1-year-old boy was starved because he refused to say 'Amen' after meals.

The boy's mother is to testify against the other cult members.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23513/one-mind-ministries-trial/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23383/1-mind-ministries-7 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23383/1-mind-ministries-7#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:04:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23383 A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane.

The boy died more than two years ago when cult members stopped feeding him because he refused to say "Amen" after a meal, according to a statement of facts.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23383/1-mind-ministries-7/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23377/1-mind-ministries-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23377/1-mind-ministries-6#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:31:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23377 Members of One Mind Ministries drew little notice in the working-class Baltimore neighborhood where they lived in a nondescript brick rowhouse.

But inside, prosecutors say, horrors were unfolding: Answering to a leader called Queen Antoinette, they denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say "Amen" at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection, then packed it into a suitcase with mothballs. They left it in a shed in Philadelphia, where it remained for a year before detectives found it last spring.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23377/1-mind-ministries-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22939/1-mind-ministries-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22939/1-mind-ministries-5#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:15:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22939 In an unusual development for a murder case, an alleged member of a religious cult accused in the starvation death of a toddler was released from custody Monday and will remain free with minimal supervision until trial.

Four other members of the now-defunct 1 Mind Ministries remain held without bail.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22939/1-mind-ministries-5/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22056/2-women-in-cult-related-death-case-denied-bail http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22056/2-women-in-cult-related-death-case-denied-bail#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:24:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22056 Two women were ordered held without bail yesterday on charges that they participated in the starvation death of a child whom they considered a "demon" because he wouldn't say amen after his meals, according to police charging documents.

Police say Antoinette was the leader of a cult and that Williams was one of her followers; each is charged with first-degree murder.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22056/2-women-in-cult-related-death-case-denied-bail/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22016/1-mind-ministries-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22016/1-mind-ministries-3#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:34:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22016 Court documents say cult members starved the toddler to death and kept his remains in a suitcase for more than a year, until Baltimore homicide detectives found the body in Philadelphia.

The leader of 1 Mind Ministries, who identifies herself as Queen Antoinette, had a problem with Javon, who a police source in court papers said would not comply with the group's ritual of saying "amen" after meals.

Court papers say that the more Queen Antoinette pressed the toddler, the more resistant he became and that he was subsequently deprived of food and water as punishment.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22016/1-mind-ministries-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21500/bail-denied-for-2-held-in-missing-child-case http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21500/bail-denied-for-2-held-in-missing-child-case#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 09:02:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21500 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21500/bail-denied-for-2-held-in-missing-child-case/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21425/1-mind-ministries-cult-kills-baby http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21425/1-mind-ministries-cult-kills-baby#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 10:04:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21425 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21425/1-mind-ministries-cult-kills-baby/feed 0