New Mexico destroys active crime scene before trial!

From near Amalia, New Mexico NBC reports,

Following a court order, authorities seized an RV at the New Mexico compound where five adults are believed to have been abusing 11 children and training them for school shootings. An underground tunnel at the site where remains of a 3-year-old were found is now buried in rubble, as ammo and a bulletproof vest sit in piles of uncollected trash.

Read and see more here.

Ace of Spades observes and asks,

We're now destroying active crime-scenes before trial?

Video report at the link and embedded below.

So... the site is so dangerous it must be destroyed before trial, and a judge decided these men posed no threat and should be released on signature bond?

Can these two things make sense at the same time?

Media coverage of the New Mexico child abuse compound

Here is a compilation of media reports on the New Mexico child abuse case in which one child died during a religious ritual. At this website, there are several stories from CNN on the Amalia, New Mexico compound where five adults have been charged with child abuse, and one child has been found dead. There are a number of videos, one of which features the local sheriff walking out in disgust at the CNN interviewer.

Doug Ross at The Daily Caller reported last night that all five adults have been released from jail on a $20,000 signature bond each as they await their trial on child abuse charges.

Although one of the adults owned a ten-acre property nearby, the group chose another ten-acre property to live on, and that land is owned by a US Army veteran, Jason Badger. Badger and his wife believe law enforcement was negligent in not going on the property much sooner while the boy was still alive. One of the men had a warrant for his arrest from Georgia on charges of kidnapping the boy, who was his son. Why couldn't the New Mexico sheriff have gone in on the basis of that outstanding warrant in Georgia? Badger told the media that he had earlier informed Georgia law enforcement that the missing boy was at the compound. This Reuters article indicates that neighbors had tried to help.

CBS and CNN both report that the boy died during a religious ritual.

Morgan Lee reports today in the Herald-WHIG,

...Agent Travis Taylor described interviews with two children from the compound, ages 13 and 15, after they were taken into protective custody by the state.

The 15-year-old described attempts to cast demonic spirits from Abdul-ghani's body through a ritual that involved reading passages from the Quran while Siraj Ibn Wahhaj held a hand on the boy's forehead, and that Abdul-ghani apparently died after one of the sessions, Taylor said.

He said the children were told that Abdul-ghani would be resurrected as Jesus and "would instruct others on the property about what corrupt institutions to get rid of," in reference to financial and government institutions that might include schools.

How the New York Times reports on the story of the New Mexico compound

The New York Times reports on the Amalia, New Mexico compound in which the remains of a young child were found. The deceased child may be the grandchild of a well-known Iman in New York. In fact, the New York Iman is the one who called authorities in New Mexico, asking them to investigate. A foster parent of one of the children whom authorities removed from the compound has told authorities that the child was being groomed to become a school shooter. The New York Times reporters have nothing further to say about that. The Times report is here.