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Luke Broadwater and Stephen Janis: Records say cult killed baby because he was a 'demon' [LINK-ZUM]

Cult members concluded Javon Thompson was a "demon" after the baby wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime and starved him to death, witnesses told homicide detectives, according to records obtained by The Examiner. "The child was abused because Javon was noncompliant with the existing rules of the 'cult,'" the records state. "The child was also viewed as a "demon.'" [...] A witness told homicide detectives Javon was "beaten, physically abused [and] deprived of food and water, which led to the child's death," according to Khadan-Newton and records obtained by The Examiner. Khadan-Newton said investigators told her cult members grew angry after Javon would not say "amen" at mealtime, even though the baby was just learning to say basic words. [...] After his death, Javon was placed on a mattress, on which cult members said God would resurrect him from the dead, documents state. Cult members then took the child in a suitcase to Philadelphia, where they stored Javon's dead body in a shed of an acquaintance, police said.

[Article continues at link. I'd like to know more about what the Examiner calls the cult. People should be discouraged from childhood onward from joining or forming such organizations so that the frequency of terrible occurrences such as this can be lessened. The Examiner doesn't give us any details on the cult, and so we will have to piece it together for ourselves from what they do tell us. This cult says prayers, prayers which end in the word amen. They believe in God and they believe in demons. The cult believes that God can resurrect people after they die. That sure sounds like Christianity to me. Why might The Examiner fail to identify 'the cult' for what it is? - Trevor Blake]

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