Jury selection began on Monday in the New Mexico terrorism and kidnapping trial of five family members accused of running a terror training camp and using malnourished children as pawns in a deadly scheme to target schools, law enforcement, and the military.
The charges against two men and three women stemmed from a 2018 raid on their desert compound by agents attempting to locate a missing 3-year-old boy who suffered from seizures. His mother told authorities in 2017 that his father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, one of the defendants, had taken him to perform an exorcism because he thought the boy was possessed by the devil.During the raid on the Taos compound, agents found 11 children and five adults living in squalor and wearing rags.
Prosecutors are expected to present evidence that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and co-defendant Jany Leveille performed daily prayer rituals over the boy, even as he cried and foamed at the mouth after being deprived of medicine. The boy's dead body was hidden and washed for months. An exact cause of death was never determined.
Authorities claimed the family was preparing for attacks against the U.S. government, though lawyers for those charged say the allegations are an overreach and anti-Muslim. Defense attorneys have also claimed prosecutors are putting up false narratives about alleged terrorist activities.
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