A Maryland woman involved with a group described as a religious cult pleaded guilty in the starvation death of her son, but insisted that the charges be dropped when he is resurrected.
The condition was made a part of Ria Ramkissoon’s plea agreement, officials said. She entered the plea Monday in Baltimore, Maryland, to a first-degree felony count of child abuse resulting in death, her attorney, Steven Silverman, said Tuesday.
Ramkissoon, a member of a group called One Mind Ministries, believes Javon Thompson, her year-old son, will rise again, and as part of her plea agreement, authorities agreed to the clause….
Ramkissoon and the others are accused of denying Javon food after the group’s leader, a 40-year-old woman who goes by the name Queen Antoinette, decreed the boy was a demon since he refused to say “amen” after meals, Silverman said.
“Ria would cling to him every day and try to get him to say ‘amen,’ ” Silverman said. Eventually, Queen Antoinette ordered that Ramkissoon be separated from the child, he said.
Javon is believed to have died in December 2006, court documents allege. Following his death, the group members put the boy’s body in a back room, and “everyone was directed to come in and pray,” according to the documents. “The Queen told everyone that ‘God was going to raise Javon from the dead.’ Javon remained in the room for an extended period of time (in excess of one week). The resurrection never took place.”
There’s truly no end to the downward spiral once you decide to separate your intellect from your search for the truth.
Thanks, K B
#56, Ron,
WHOA !!!
That is one heck of a persuasive argument. I would like to hear a counter to it. Not because I disagree, but because anything countering that point would have to be a pretty powerful, logical reason.
#41, Alphie, the Quaalude Queen,
RE: #33
Do you actually get the message behind the mythos that you are defending, or does your interpretation of “objective” reality allow you to own weapons and make threats?
“Mythos that you are defending…” bobbo and fusie frolicking limp wristed in the moolight, is not a myth…and I don’t defend it…
AND said events are ONE reason I got guns…
#44
Perhaps I wasn’t clear, picture…
two limp wristed fairies tip toeing through the tulips…and me on the grassy knoll, taking aim…
So now your delusional mind is fantasizing killing two people because you disagree with them. Where YOUR bible said “Thou shall not kill” and “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” now clearly puts you into the hypocrisy camp.
You have merely confirmed the worse fears about America lax gun laws.
I can’t get over the cult / occult’s was named one mind ministries. hilarious!
#61 (and by inclusion, #56):
While it’s certainly true that she would have committed the act of murder, from a purely practical perspective it’d be impossible to prove. (And, actually, #56 is actually wrong on the robbery analogy, but for entirely different reasons which I’ll get to in a second).
The simple fact of the matter is no one has thus far seen Resurrection happen (outside of Battlestar Galactica, har har. Or I suppose the Bible, but no one has actually *seen* is happen in the Bible either, since them folks are 1,950 years dead and all.) So if you attempt to take this to trial, the defendant’s first witness would be the boy, whole and hale. The state would then have to *prove* resurrection beyond a reasonable doubt… and if 10,000 years of philosophy and theocracy hasn’t done it, a prosecutor with 6 months worth of trial prep won’t be able to do it. (Though I admit, I *am* professionally curious about it.)
As to #56′s bank robbery analogy – you’re kinda wrong. One of the elements of larceny/theft is intent to permanently deprive the victim of the object stolen. If you return the cash after you took it – because you never intended to keep it in the first place – the state would have to prove that you only brought the cash back for another reason. That being said, would a jury really believe that you took money from a bank you weren’t intending to keep? Tough sell, methinks.
# 62 Mr. Fusion said, on April 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 am
#41, Alphie, the Quaalude Queen,
RE: #33
Do you actually get the message behind the mythos that you are defending, or does your interpretation of “objective” reality allow you to own weapons and make threats?
“Mythos that you are defending…” bobbo and fusie frolicking limp wristed in the moolight, is not a myth…and I don’t defend it…
AND said events are ONE reason I got guns…
#44
Perhaps I wasn’t clear, picture…
two limp wristed fairies tip toeing through the tulips…and me on the grassy knoll, taking aim…
So now your delusional mind is fantasizing killing two people because you disagree with them. Where YOUR bible said “Thou shall not kill” and “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” now clearly puts you into the hypocrisy camp.
You have merely confirmed the worse fears about America lax gun laws.
You must have a large brain to hold so much ignorance…That was obvious allegory…dickhead…and THAT is metonymy…a figure of speech standing vividly for your character…
AND this is an illustration:
If we put your brain on the edge of a razor, it would look like a pea rolling down a four lane highway.
Does bobbo have the common courtesy to offer you a reach around when he is done, “fusie”…