Baltimore is dealing with a horrific death of a Javon Thompson, who was nineteen months old when he was allegedly starved to death because he would not say “Amen.” His mother, Ria Ramkissoon (shown here), and three others (Queen Antoinette, 40, also known as Toni Ellsberry or Toni Sloan; Marcus Cobbs, 21; and Trevia Williams, 21) all members of a religious sect known as 1 Mind Ministries. They found his remains in a suitcase left in a shed. Unfortunately, this is not a unique tale and children appear to be the ones who have paid for the religious extremism of their parents.
Ria Ramkissoon, the mother of Javon Thompson, was charged Sunday with first-degree murder with three other members of a1 Mind Ministries.
A fifth member, Steven Bynum, is still being sought with a warrant for first-degree murder and believed to be in New York.
Members of 1 Mind Ministries wear all white and refuse medical care — a practice recently documented in other sects with other deaths of children, click here. See also this story.
This sect tends to refer to members with titles including queen and princess.
The police interviewed children who told them that members stopped feeding Javon in December 2006, in part because he refused to say “amen” after dinner and was therefore declared “a demon.”
Antoinette allegedly left the boy’s body in a room for more than a week, insisting that “God was going to raise Javon from the dead,.” When that did not happen, she took a more earthly approach and burned the boy’s clothing and a mattress and placed his body in a green suitcase. In a fact that will only seal her fate if proven, she periodically sprayed the case to hide the smell. Not that they would need that fact if the rest of this sorry tale is proven.
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You are a bunch of idiots and it does not matter what religion these peole are. It is only a waste because the kid did not grow up with a good religion so that he could go kill people in other countries where they have a bad religion.
Susan,
Thanks. So many people have died under the religion label. What hurts the most is when a little child gets hurt or killed because of the stupidity of the parents or guardians.
Rafflaw wrote:
Jill,
This is another example of religion gone wild. In some respects, these kind of religous murders are worse than the violent murders. They try to hide behind their alleged beliefs and this child is a literal sacrifice to the stupidity of the “princess”. And I thought the nuns were off the wall sometimes with their discipline. This group takes the “evil religion” award.
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Rafflaw, I agree. I’m wondering if this was a so-called “christian” sect, or something else entirely. But christian or not, your definition of evil religion is perfectly accurate.
Jill,
This is another example of religion gone wild. In some respects, these kind of religous murders are worse than the violent murders. They try to hide behind their alleged beliefs and this child is a literal sacrifice to the stupidity of the “princess”. And I thought the nuns were off the wall sometimes with their discipline. This group takes the “evil religion” award.
A and H,
You are speaking exactly like a cult member. Many cult members believe in God. Most of them believe in acting violently, just as you do. Anger and hate don’t have to end in violence. That’s a myth. Anger and hate tell you something is wrong, it may be something wrong inside you, in the situation you’re dealing with or both. There are many ways to address things that are wrong.
there fait better be the death penalty, If i find the one hiding here in NY i plan to flush him out and burn him at the stake, with a tire around his head satens symbol tattoed on his chest and 5 gallons of gasoline and a single pack of matches and will video tape this and post it all over the web..
ALL cult members do NOT belive in God therefore they must die before the parents the public and God..
When I read things like this I always wonder if it was people who were already sadistic towards children and hooked up with a cult that allowed this free expression or if there is the mind washing that makes people become willing sadists. It doesn’t matter before the law but I wish we had a better handle on why this happens and how to stop it.