A religious leader in North Carolina shot to death his four-year old step son because he thought the boy, Jadon Higganbothan, might be gay. The man, Peter Lucas Moses, 27, who also shot to death a 28-year old woman, may face the death penalty.
Moses, whom police stopped short of calling a cult leader, lived in a one-room home with nine children and three women. The 28-year old woman, Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, Moses killed had been beaten and strangled with an extension cord before Moses murdered her. The day he did, she had escaped to a neighbor’s house and begged her to use her cell phone. The neighbor did not call police because she claims she thought the woman might be mentally disturbed. She witnesses Moses dragging her into the house, and still never called police.
More, via WRAL:
Moses beat her throughout most of the day, with the women joining in at least once, and tried to strangle her with an extension cord, according to the witness.
The witness described how McKoy begged for her life, but Sisk got the gun Moses used to kill Jadon and took it to the bathroom, prosecutors said. The women told Moses “you cannot let her go” and said they feared him going to jail, Cline said.
They turned on the same music in the bathroom and took McKoy in there, prosecutors said. Sisk shot McKoy several times, killing her, they said.
The group threw a party a few days later, prosecutors recalled the witness saying, and Moses showed McKoy’s body to several relatives, including his mother Sheilda Evelyn Harris, 56, his brother P. Leonard Moses, 21, and his sister, Sheila Falisha Moses, 20.
McKoy’s body was also kept in the house for some time, taped up inside black garbage bags placed in garbage bin, prosecutors said the witness told them.
A few salient facts:
Religious extremism is at the heart of this sad story. The children were home schooled. Neighbors ignored them. This took place in North Carolina, the current subject of a social agenda campaign against the LGBT community. A same-sex marriage equality ban may be on the 2012 ballot.
Good thing they have their priorities in order.
“In the religious belief of that organization, homosexuality was frowned on,” Cline [the DA] said. Huh? That better not be allowed in court.
“Investigators think some of those involved in the deaths were members of a religious sect known as the Black Hebrews, which believes it descends directly from the ancient tribes of Israel,” the Republic stated.
(hat tip: Pride In Utah)
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What could a four year-old possibly do that would be "gay?"
This is just plain wrong and sad on so many levels.
I hope this is tried as a hate crime.
If these are the same "Black Hebrews" I have read about, they have already proven themselves long ago to be a sick, dangerous cult (yes, CULT). http://www.rickross.com/groups/yahwehben.html
And yet people will still claim that people's religious beliefs are safe from criticism or inquiry, this is sad and sickening. A true display of the depths that delusion and fear can take you. And I am appalled also by the immoral inaction of the neighbor, there seems to be this notion that at all costs, "you should mind your business." Are we that devoid of empathy?
I agree. There seems to be a distinct lack of empathy when it comes to religion. One god being better than another and no body looking in to where the beliefs come from or what mythology has done to our world.
Speak up if you are a Freethinker or you will loose your right to think.
i think religon is getting out of hand now, think we need to ban all of it, anyway its just a form of mental ilness………. this story just proves it….. id string the idiot up and whip him with chains for a year non stop……
I hope the woman who did not call the police does some time in jail herself.
all religions are following the same principle: a 'morality' that is not based in the value of life, but ideas of 'good' and 'bad', 'right' and 'wrong' that are said to make one person 'better' than another. all religion, worship or following has the potential to become fanatic, extremist, fatal – because it all adheres to principles of separation, hierarchy, comparison: this is the essence of war. this story shows the true face of religion for what it is. time to STOP this insanity! investigate http://desteni.co.za/
to continue reading my commentary, see my blog http://earthglobalreview.wordpress.com/2011/07/10…
its truely sad that neighbors just stood by and watched everything
Somehow, I'm not surprised. So many communities don't want to admit there are some very ugly things hiding in plain sight, so they take the 'out of sight, out of mind' approach. They can lament all they want at the horror of it all, but until they come out from their white picket fences and face reality, they are never going to learn. There is a point when stepping in to resolve a situation outweighs privacy. If someone's life is in danger and they come to you for help, would you do so? Or tell them to go away and quit bothering you? This is so horrible to think it could happen again somewhere else.
I live in the same town, though not in the same neighborhood, and I didn't know them. But this town has a lot of violence and gang activity. I know people that see things happen and won't report….they are terrified of retaliation if anyone finds out it was them that reported something….and they have every right to be terrified, because they WOULD be retaliated against. I think the people involved in this sad story were just batsh*t crazy and "religion" as such had very little to do with it. Absolutely tragic.
This is an insane and disgusting act perpetrated by an obvious lunatic, but there is absolutely nothing in the article to substantiate the claim that the culprit was in any way a "religious leader" as that term could be meaningfully applied. Someone–a journalist–is trying to drive their own agenda and bigotry here, and others are gleefully piling on. A sad display all the way around.
Respectfully, you're totally wrong. Other news outlets labeled him a cult leader, but, as the D.A. Refused to, so did I. Moses, the man accused, is the religious leader of his small sect of Black Hebrews, as the article states. Sorry if that's not a religion that falls under your view of religion, but this is America and you don't get to decide which religions are valid and which aren't.
Moses is not a Christian – Religious Leader! He is obviously a follower of selfish acts that anyone can label as religion. A Christian or any religious, God loving human would not shoot to death anyone! No, no… this man has issues that do not belong to God but to him and the demons he possess. Why is the media trying to make religion a bad word? Lets think about that. Someone who proclaims he/she is a religious leader is not necessarily so, obviously. Come on media, don't give Religion a bad rap, we're here to be thankful, grateful, love our families, work hard, spread God's word…. which is NOT about killing! Shame on the media for allowing this. Shame on you.
I am so sick of Christianists claiming that (1) they are helpless victims and the so-called liberal media is unfairly critical of them, and (2) that anyone who practices a faith that's not Christianists, they don't follow a "real" religion.
Just like if someone is in a legal civil same-sex marriage, some Christianists claim it's not a "real marriage."
Sorry but just because you're Christian you don't get to decide on either issue.
Here! here! Mr. Badash. Well said. When something happens that shows Christianity in a bad light they always claim persecution. If they studied the roots of their religion they would understand that it is all made up and what is not is based on ancient mythology from when humans had no understanding of the world and needed stories to help them feel safe.
Religion is the root of most evil…….Norway……. Holocaust………gay bashing……….slavery…………..Inquisition……..the sooner we feel free to state the truth about it the better for all of us! (before someone feels the need to question my using the Holocaust as a 'religious' evil, I see it as such, Hitler being an occultist/pagan/aryan-christ believer against the Jews)
It is amazing that in 2012 you have people who think killing someone of a different faith is authorized as you are weeding out the "heretics"…I thought the dark ages were supposed to have ended during the Renaissance. Nice to know man's inhumanity to man continues unabated, in large part propagated by folks who claim that a magical mystery man in the sky loves them and cares for them, more so than their neighbors because the neighbors are heathens.
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