€¢ The name of this group has been reported in the media as “1 Mind Ministries” or “One Mind Ministries”.
A judge praised a young mother for great strides in her treatment after she starved her 1-year-old son to death while part of the 1 Mind Ministries religious cult.
The woman’s attorney said Wednesday she is breaking free of the belief that her son will be resurrected.
A young mother who starved her 1-year-old son to death while she a member of religious cult 1 Mind Ministries will be back in a Baltimore courtroom.
Ria Ramkissoon, who pled guilty in a plea deal, will appear at a hearing Wednesday to determine how she’s faring in treatment and when she can be assimilated back into the community.
Prosecutors agreed to suspend her sentence after determining that she had been brainwashed by cult leader Queen Antoinette. The cult leader was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Three cult members have been sentenced for the death of a toddler starved for not saying “Amen” after meals.
Authorities say they manipulated 23-year-old Ria Ramkissoon, who believed her baby would be resurrected through the dead through prayer. When that didn’t happen one member stuffed the body in a suit cases and left it in a storage shed in Philadelphia.
A woman who starved her 1-year-old son to death at the behest of a the leader of a religious group has been given a suspended sentence and probation.
Ria Ramkissoon was a member of 1 Mind Ministries but in a plea agreement she testified against the cult’s leader.
A Baltimore jury on Tuesday afternoon convicted three alleged cult members on charges of first-degree child abuse resulting in death and second-degree murder for starving a 16-month-old boy in their city apartment because he did not say “amen” before meals.
The defendants each face a maximum of 60 years in prison when they are sentenced, scheduled for May 18.
Closing arguments are expected today in the Baltimore trial of three members of an alleged cult — the now defunct 1 Mind Ministries — who are accused of starving a toddler to death because he didn’t pray properly.
The defendants, who are representing themselves, rested their cases within minutes Monday without calling any witnesses.
A woman who once lived with three accused cult leaders testified Thursday that they had her involuntarily committed to a mental hospital to keep her quiet about a toddler’s starvation death.
Members of the culthave been charged with murder in the death of baby Javon Thompson.
The mother of a dead child testified Wednesday that she agreed to starve her toddler son, who refused to say “amen,” to rid him of a demonic spirit that was potentially placed there when her own mother offered the boy up to the devil.
She still believes God will resurrect her son.
The leader of a religious cult was “outraged” when a 1-year-old boy did not say “Amen” before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died, a Baltimore prosecutor told jurors Monday.
Three members of the now-defunct cult known as 1 Mind Ministries are on trial for murder in the death of Javon Thompson
Queen Antoinette – aka Toni Sloan or Toni Ellsberry – sat at a defense table Tuesday and grimaced every time she heard a statement she didn’t like, particularly those containing the words “cult” or “commune.”
Her actions irked Assistant Public Defender Maureen Rowland, representing one of Antoinette’s co-defendants in a bizarre homicide case that involves the alleged starvation death of a toddler.