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A New Mexico judge has received death threats after granting bail to five adults arrested at a desert compound.<\/p>\n
Judge Sarah Backus said the prosecution had not convinced her the defendants were a threat to the community.<\/p>\n
Police had arrested the two men and three women at a remote compound raided in the search for a missing three-year-old boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.<\/p>\n
Officers found 11 starving children and the buried remains of a toddler in a case that has shocked the country.<\/p>\n
Judge Backus granted the five bail after a hearing on Monday, ordering that all five must wear ankle monitors and have weekly contact with their lawyers.<\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s father, Siraj Wahhaj, was one of the five arrested.<\/p>\n
But her decision has caused a storm of protest.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the New Mexico courts said a caller told the judge \u201che wished her throat were slit\u201d, with another saying he \u201choped someone would come and smash her head in\u201d.<\/p>\n
An email to Ms Backus called her an \u201cIslamic terror sympathiser\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Taos County court building was evacuated briefly on Tuesday after the threats.<\/p>\n
Judge Backus said at the hearing that while what she had heard was \u201ctroubling\u201d, prosecutors did not prove that the defendants posed a threat to the wider community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe state alleges that there was a big plan afoot, but the state hasn\u2019t shown to my satisfaction, in clear and convincing evidence, what that plan was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The prosecution argued that all five adults were dangerous and should not be granted bail, because they had trained the children to use weapons and carry out school shootings.<\/p>\n
They also said that the remains found at the site were those of Abdul-Ghani and that the other children said the boy had died during a \u201creligious ritual\u2026 intended to cast out demonic spirits\u201d, where Siraj Wahhaj had put his hand to his son\u2019s forehead, and recited verses from the Koran.<\/p>\n
But defence lawyers accused the prosecution of treating the five suspects unfairly because they are Muslim \u2013 something prosecutors deny.<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Thomas Clark said after the hearing that if the accused were Christian and white then \u201cnobody would bat an eye over the idea of faith healing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when black Muslims do it, there seems to be something nefarious, something evil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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