Queercommie Girl
14th July 2011, 11:48
http://www.care2.com/causes/leader-of-cult-like-group-charged-with-killing-infertile-woman-gay-child.html
In Durham, NC a fringe religious leader named Peter Lucas Moses, Jr. has been charged with the murder of Yvonne McKoy and 4 year-old Jadon Higganbothan. Moses allegedly killed Higganbothan last October because he thought the child was gay. McKoy, 28, was slain a few months later for being infertile.
WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) reports:
Prosecutors said the case came to polices attention in February when a young woman escaped from a house where she had lived with McKoy, Jadon, eight other children and three women charged in connection with the two slayings The woman, whose identity wasnt released, told police that two people had died at the house, Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline said.
Higganbothan was the only child in the house who wasnt fathered by Moses, 27, although Higganbothans mother, Vania Rea Sisk, 25, lived with the group as one of Moses common-law wives. Sisk, along with the other women, referred to Moses as Lord and took turns sharing the master bedroom with Moses.
Moses subscribed to the tenets of the Black Hebrews, the News Observer reports (http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/07/09/1331670/death-penalty-sought-in-cult-case.html#storylink=misearch), a radical sect that believes a race war is coming that will leave blacks dominant and supreme, according to court documents
Homosexuality, [District Attorney Tracey Cline] contended, is frowned upon by the Black Hebrews.
Prosecutors said Moses believed Higganbothan might be gay because the boys father had abandoned him and Sisk. When Higganbothan swatted another childs behind, the informant told police, it seemed to confirm Moses belief. Moses allegedly began screaming at Sisk, I told you to get rid of him! and ordered two of the women to help him dispose of the child.
The informant described a horrific scene: after the women carried audio speakers into the garage, Moses played a loud music track featuring the Lords Prayer in Hebrew and shot Higganbothan with a gun belonging to Sisk.
Approximately two months later, the informant told police, Moses killed McKoy in a similar manner.
The victims family members told WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) that McKoy had known Moses in high school. After Moses invited her to live with his group, they couldnt contact her. McKoy seemed content with her living arrangements until she learned that she couldnt have children.
WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) reports:
[McKoy] wrote dairy entries begging Lord [Moses] not to kill her, prosecutors said.
On the day she died, prosecutors said, McKoy ran to a neighbors house and asked to use a cell phone to call her mother in Washington, D.C. The neighbor said she didnt call police because she thought that it was a group home and that McKoy might be mentally disturbed.
Police discovered McKoys remains in June, alongside Higganbothans. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Moses, while Moses self-described wives have been brought up on charges ranging from first-degree murder to accessory to murder. The groups children are currently in foster homes.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/leader-of-cult-like-group-charged-with-killing-infertile-woman-gay-child.html#ixzz1S4kAb3Ha
In Durham, NC a fringe religious leader named Peter Lucas Moses, Jr. has been charged with the murder of Yvonne McKoy and 4 year-old Jadon Higganbothan. Moses allegedly killed Higganbothan last October because he thought the child was gay. McKoy, 28, was slain a few months later for being infertile.
WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) reports:
Prosecutors said the case came to polices attention in February when a young woman escaped from a house where she had lived with McKoy, Jadon, eight other children and three women charged in connection with the two slayings The woman, whose identity wasnt released, told police that two people had died at the house, Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline said.
Higganbothan was the only child in the house who wasnt fathered by Moses, 27, although Higganbothans mother, Vania Rea Sisk, 25, lived with the group as one of Moses common-law wives. Sisk, along with the other women, referred to Moses as Lord and took turns sharing the master bedroom with Moses.
Moses subscribed to the tenets of the Black Hebrews, the News Observer reports (http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/07/09/1331670/death-penalty-sought-in-cult-case.html#storylink=misearch), a radical sect that believes a race war is coming that will leave blacks dominant and supreme, according to court documents
Homosexuality, [District Attorney Tracey Cline] contended, is frowned upon by the Black Hebrews.
Prosecutors said Moses believed Higganbothan might be gay because the boys father had abandoned him and Sisk. When Higganbothan swatted another childs behind, the informant told police, it seemed to confirm Moses belief. Moses allegedly began screaming at Sisk, I told you to get rid of him! and ordered two of the women to help him dispose of the child.
The informant described a horrific scene: after the women carried audio speakers into the garage, Moses played a loud music track featuring the Lords Prayer in Hebrew and shot Higganbothan with a gun belonging to Sisk.
Approximately two months later, the informant told police, Moses killed McKoy in a similar manner.
The victims family members told WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) that McKoy had known Moses in high school. After Moses invited her to live with his group, they couldnt contact her. McKoy seemed content with her living arrangements until she learned that she couldnt have children.
WRAL (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/) reports:
[McKoy] wrote dairy entries begging Lord [Moses] not to kill her, prosecutors said.
On the day she died, prosecutors said, McKoy ran to a neighbors house and asked to use a cell phone to call her mother in Washington, D.C. The neighbor said she didnt call police because she thought that it was a group home and that McKoy might be mentally disturbed.
Police discovered McKoys remains in June, alongside Higganbothans. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Moses, while Moses self-described wives have been brought up on charges ranging from first-degree murder to accessory to murder. The groups children are currently in foster homes.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/leader-of-cult-like-group-charged-with-killing-infertile-woman-gay-child.html#ixzz1S4kAb3Ha