The father and stepmother of the three-year-old boy whose remains were found at a ramshackle compound, reportedly planned a terrorist attack on one of the largest public hospitals in the southeast United States.
New information from a 13-page court motion that contains statements from some of the 11 children who were starved and forced to live in squalor in New Mexico alongside five adults, claim the couple wanted to target Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta due to Jany Leveille, 35, being unhappy with the service.
In a journal she ‘expressed her displeasure with Grady Hospital … due to the treatment she and her mother received there,’ reports CNN.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj (left) and his wife Jany Leveille (right) were charged with child abuse resulting in death and conspiracy to commit child abuse on Friday for neglecting to provide medication to Wahhaj’s severely disabled son whose remains were found in their New Mexico compound
The couple wanted to target Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta (pictured) due to Jany Leveille, 35, being unhappy with the service
Lucas Morten (left) and Siraj Ibn Wahhaj (right) reportedly planned terrorist attacks in a hand-written ‘Phases of Terrorism’ document and it’s being used against them by prosecutors
It’s not clear what treatment the family had received there.
The terror plan made as part of a handwritten ‘Phases of Terrorism’ document that was found, containing information on how they could bring down certain establishments.
Children told police Leiville and her husband, Siraj Wahhaj, 40, ‘intended to confront “corrupt” institutions or individuals, such as the military, big businesses, CIA, teachers/schools and reveal the “truth” to these corrupt institutions or individuals,’ if she failed to persuade them with her message.
The document allegedly instructed those involved to ‘shoot or otherwise attack the non-believer’ and contained ‘instructions for “The one-time terrorist,” instructions on the use of a “choke point,” a location “called the ideal attack site,” the “ability to defend the safe haven,” the “ability to escape-perimeter rings,” and “sniper position detection procedure”.’
Children stated they received advanced training to shoot the above-mentioned, and police found they had a makeshift shooting range on site containing an AR-15 rifle, 30-round magazines that were loaded, four pistols that were loaded and additional ammunition.
Documents were discovered at the New Mexico compound that contain evidence of their plans to kill police, teachers, bank workers and those at other ‘corrupt’ institutions (pictured above are items recovered)
The group are said to be ‘Muslim extremists’ trying to get their message heard and planned to slay those who they could not persuade according to a court filing (pictured above are items recovered)
Children were taken into custody earlier this month and interviews have revealed the charged adults’ intentions of terror (pictured above are items recovered)
The young people held claimed Morten ‘stated he wished to die in Jihad, as a martyr,’ also telling Wahhaj’s brother to follow Allah ‘until he makes you die a martyr as you wanted and the only way is by joining the righteous’.
Morten also told the man to ‘take all your money out of the bank and bring your guns’ in his plan.
The father and step-mother of Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, 3, have been charged with child abuse after neglecting to give toddler medicine needed to treat his seizures
The motion continues: ‘At times, Jany Leveille would laugh and joke about dying in Jihad as would Subhanna Wahhaj.’
All of the accused were prepared for a raid and had strategically placed weapons at the end of an escape tunnel for the children but the filing notes the two men would stay behind to fight law enforcement.
Information in the motion is being used by prosecutors asking a judge to reconsider giving the five adults probation. It could allow at least three of the defendants to be released on house arrest with ankle monitors.
Wahhaj’s sisters Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhannah Wahhaj, and a man, Lucas Morten, are charged with 11 counts of child abuse.
After Abdul Ghani Wahhaj passed away, the couple is charged with child abuse resulting in death, which is a first-degree felony, and conspiracy to commit child abuse, also a first-degree felony.
It convicted, they could face life behind bars.
According to court documents, the children were starved while they lived in the compound (pictured above are items recovered)
CNN obtained audio from a dash cam where police can be heard notifying Tanya and Jason Badger, who complained the compound residents were trespassers and that there may be a missing child there, that someone inside was on the FBI watch list.
‘We’ve gotten multiple calls on this child but, at the same time, our hands are tied because the FBI has whatever they got going on up there with them,’ Officer Bryan Donis is reported to have said.
He added: ‘I know this boy is missing from Georgia and that this guy is on the terrorist watch list and that there is a group of people they’re (FBI) keeping an eye on for whatever reason.’
In June, police showed up to evict the group but say they didn’t see a reason to take any further action despite noticing the terrible conditions.
An interview with CNN, shows Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe getting emotional and eventually walking out after being questioned about the incident.
He mentioned that FBI surveillance had picked up a limping boy.
The couple were among the five adults and 11 children found during August 3 raid of this New Mexico, where they found in a state of filth and hunger. All five adults arrested at compound are jailed and charged with child abuse
Photographs taken on the compound reveal how the group lived in squalor and had a makeshift shooting range as the children were allegedly trained to use firearms to eventually carry out school shootings
Wahhaj and his wife Leveille are accused of failing to provide Siraj’s severely disabled son Abdul-Ghani with his medication needed to treat his health problems including seizures, ultimately leading to his death.
The affidavit alleges that the couple knew the child suffered seizures and was diagnosed with a seizure disorder but neglected to provide him medication or seek medical care for him.
Wahhaj and Leveille, as well as the three other adults who lived at the compound, already face charges of child abuse for their reign of terror at a makeshift desert camp in New Mexico that they called home.
Police raided their camp on August 3 and found the five adults and 11 children living in filth and hunger with no plumbing. The children living there were allegedly trained to handle firearms to carry out school shootings.
Three days after the raid, police found the highly decomposed body of three-year-old Abdul-Ghani in a tunnel at the camp.
‘We now know the child died on December 24, 2017 and was concealed at the compound,’ Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said in a statement.
Opened cans of tuna and cranberries sit next to a dusty boot in the compound. There was no other food on the site and the children had not eaten for days when they were discovered
Toddler Abdul-ghani had been reported missing in December from Jonesboro, Georgia by his mother Hakima Ramzi. She said Wahhaj said he was taking the child to a park but never returned.
His father Wahhaj is accused to kidnapping the child and performing purification rituals on him.
Prosecutors say that the child died late December 2017 during a religious ritual where the Quran was read out to cast out demonic spirits as the child’s exhausted heart faded in and out.
The ritualistic death was described at court hearings using information garnered from FBI interviews from the teenagers discovered at the compound.
Ordeal: Hakima Ramzi’s attorney told DailyMail.com: ‘Hakima told us, ‘He told me he was taking Abdul-Ghani to the park for a little while’. Instead he held a exorcism which ended in Abdul-ghani’s death
These accounts conform with aspects of an alternative, meditative Islamic healing ritual called ruqya.
The New Mexico Office of Medical Inspector has not yet determined how Abdul-ghani died. Spokeswoman Alex Sanchez said Friday that the agency is performing analyses.
Leveille’s lawyer Kelly Golightley declined to comment on charges, Wahhaj’s lawyer Clark did not commented on them either.
Judge Sarah Backus said the previous evidence provided by prosecutors was troubling but did not indicate any clear threat to public safety from the defendants, who have no criminal records.
Leveille, a Haitian national, was transferred from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody back to Taos County on Thursday where she is also being held on immigration charges, the sheriff’s office said.
The remaining suspects are also in Taos County jail awaiting trial.