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[SIZE=7]Man In New Mexico Compound Trained Kids To Commit School Shootings: Court Documents[/SIZE]
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and other adults arrested at the compound are facing child abuse charges.
By [I]Antonia Blumberg[/I]
The Taos County Sheriff’s Office went to the compound on Friday to search for Wahhaj’s son, who was 3 years old when the boy’s mother originally reported him missing in December. The boy was not among the 11 children found living on the compound.
The compound had been under FBI surveillance for two months before police said they had enough evidence for a search warrant.
In a statement, Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe described squalid conditions at the compound, adding that both the adults and the children were close to starving.
“The only food we saw were a few potatoes and a box of rice in the filthy trailer,” the sheriff said during a news conference. Both the adults and the children looked like “refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing. We all gave the kids our water and what snacks we had ― it was the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen.”
Hogrefe said police didn’t have enough evidence to get a search warrant for the compound until last week, when they received a third-party message from someone on the compound that said, “We are starving and need food and water.”
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