The moms of two lacking US ladies who’re believed to have taken their younger kids and joined a cult run by a convicted baby molester, have appealed to them, 5 months after they disappeared.
Police in St Louis, Missouri, assume Ma’Kayla Wickerson, 25, and her three-year-old daughter, Malaiyah, are amongst six lacking individuals who have turn into followers of Rashad Jamal, a former rapper-turned-online guru who was jailed final 12 months for molesting a toddler.
Ms Wickerson’s mom, Cartisha Morgan, informed KSDK, a part of Sky News’ US companion, NBC News, her daughter, who she final had contact with in August, was “suffering from postpartum depression”.
Her baby, she mentioned, was “meeting these people online, and they just preyed on her weakness”.
Shelita Gibson, the mom of Gerielle German, 26, and grandmother of her three-year-old son, Ashton Mitchell, informed KSDK she wish to know the pair had been OK “so that I can get a good night’s sleep”.
“I would like to know they’re not hungry, they’re not cold, that no one is making her do things that she would have to pay for in the long run.”
They, together with the opposite two lacking individuals, Naaman Williams, 29, and Mikayla Thompson, 23, had been final seen at a Quality Inn close to St Louis Lambert International Airport in August, Major Steve Runge, of Berkeley Police, mentioned final week.
The six had all been dwelling in a rented home in Berkeley, a St Louis suburb, earlier than they disappeared, police mentioned.
Jamal was jailed for 18 years for baby molestation and baby cruelty in Georgia in August.
The web site for the University of Cosmic Intelligence, which he runs, mentioned it’s “GEARED TOWARDS ENLIGHTENING AND ILLUMINATING THE MINDS OF THE CARBONATED BEINGS A.K.A YOUR SO CALLED BLACK & LATINO PEOPLE OF EARTH.”
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Jamal, whose actual title is Rashad Jamal White, final week denied being a cult chief.
In a telephone interview from jail with the St Louis Dispatch-Post, he insisted he was harmless, and mentioned the molestation prices stemmed from a toddler custody dispute.
He additionally mentioned he did not know the lacking individuals.
A self-described non secular guru and prophet, he has launched two albums after beginning out as a rapper in Chicago earlier than changing into disenchanted with the music business, the Dispatch-Post mentioned.
Jamal’s hottest track on his YouTube channel is God Talk, which has greater than 300,000 views.
Source: information.sky.com”