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According to prosecutors, the leader of the sect, a Baltimore woman who goes by the name of Queen Antoinette, had ordered Ramkissoon and other sect members to stop feeding Javon after he didn't say "amen" at breakfast.
In a hearing Monday before the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Timothy Doory accepted Ramkissoon's guilty plea and agreed to let her testify against Queen Antoinette and the other defendants.
But if Ramkissoon's son "is resurrected, as you still hold some hope he will be, you may withdraw the plea and the charges against you will be withdrawn," Doory said.
"It's a sad, crazy situation," Ramkissoon's lawyer Steven Silverman told AFP.
"Had we gone to trial, her only defense would have been, 'My child will be resurrected, therefore I'm not guilty.'
"You and I and everyone else knows that's not happening, but she's been brainwashed by a cult and still believes it to this day," he said.
Silverman said as far as he knew, the plea deal marked a global legal first.
"I've never heard of a plea ever that's had a clause which has a stipulation for future resurrection," Silverman told AFP.
"I entered that plea to keep the mother out of jail," Silverman said.
Presuming Ramkissoon testifies truthfully against her fellow sect members, "she will be released from prison, get some treatment and maybe get her life together," he said.
A date for the trial of the other cult members, who are charged with murder and child neglect leading to death, is due to be set at a hearing on Tuesday.
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In a hearing Monday before the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Timothy Doory accepted Ramkissoon's guilty plea and agreed to let her testify against Queen Antoinette and the other defendants.
But if Ramkissoon's son "is resurrected, as you still hold some hope he will be, you may withdraw the plea and the charges against you will be withdrawn," Doory said.
"It's a sad, crazy situation," Ramkissoon's lawyer Steven Silverman told AFP.
"Had we gone to trial, her only defense would have been, 'My child will be resurrected, therefore I'm not guilty.'
"You and I and everyone else knows that's not happening, but she's been brainwashed by a cult and still believes it to this day," he said.
Silverman said as far as he knew, the plea deal marked a global legal first.
"I've never heard of a plea ever that's had a clause which has a stipulation for future resurrection," Silverman told AFP.
"I entered that plea to keep the mother out of jail," Silverman said.
Presuming Ramkissoon testifies truthfully against her fellow sect members, "she will be released from prison, get some treatment and maybe get her life together," he said.
A date for the trial of the other cult members, who are charged with murder and child neglect leading to death, is due to be set at a hearing on Tuesday.
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Image from www.welt.de.
