Despite the prosecution’s pleas – arguing the fortified compound Islamic extremists held starving children in, to train them as school shooters – made them undeserving of bail, a New Mexico judge granted all five defendants that option.
Last week, New Mexico sheriffs raided the heavily-fortified camp where the accused allegedly held 11 starving children against their will.
“I’ve been working this job for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Local law enforcement swooped into action after cops received a message believed to have originated inside the compound saying, “We are starving and need food and water.”
Per the New York Post:
Three women and two men, ages 35 to 40, will wear ankle monitors and be under house arrest if they can post $20,000 bond each, the judge ruled in Taos.
Deputy District Attorney Timothy Hasson told the court that the suspects were up to no good, saying, “This was not a camping trip and this was not a simple homestead of the kind that many people do in New Mexico.”
One of the suspects, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, is the son of Brooklyn cleric Siraj Wahhaj, who has been linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Authorities found the body of a little boy at the compound. Imam Wahhaj believes the child is his grandson.
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