(TheLastPatriotNews.com) – In a vital legal ruling bringing justice to multiple people abused as minors, a Kansas federal court has found six members of the United Nation of Islam (UNOI), described as an Islamic cult, guilty of charges related to a forced labor conspiracy.
According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Kaaba Majeed, 50, Yunus Rassoul, 39, James Staton, 62, Randolph Rodney Hadley, 49, Daniel Aubrey Jenkins, 43, and Dana Peach, 60, were convicted of conspiring to commit forced labor after a trial that spanned 26 days.
Etenia Kinard, 48, and Jacelyn Greenwell, 45, had already entered guilty pleas to the same charge before the trial.
The statement additionally noted that Majeed was convicted of five separate counts of forced labor.
These defendants were either high-ranking members of UNOI or the wives of the group’s founder, Royall Jenkins, The Daily Caller reports.
They orchestrated a scheme to force more than a dozen individuals, including children as young as eight, to labor in businesses owned and operated by UNOI.
This exploitation occurred from October 2000 to November 2012, and involved workdays extending up to 16 hours without compensation.
Additionally, the victims were employed as domestic workers in the homes of the defendants, enduring “deplorable conditions, in overcrowded facilities often overrun with mold, mice and rats,” contrasting sharply with the defendants’ living conditions.
Prosecutors detailed in court that the victims were isolated from their families and support networks under the guise of receiving an education and vocational training.
Instead, they were subjected to numerous severe restrictions differing from those imposed by Jenkins himself and were given colonics and denied access to outside medical care.
The environment crafted by the defendants was one of “fear and intimidation,” utilizing physical punishment and imprisonment, along with threats of “eternal hellfire” for those who attempted to leave UNOI.
The group also operated an unlicensed and unaccredited educational institution, fostering a culture of fear among those who did not comply and ostracism for those who managed to escape, which often led to further hardships.
Prosecutors recounted particularly cruel treatments of the victims, such as one individual being hung upside down over train tracks for not confessing to stealing food and another forced to drink from a toilet when denied access to clean water.
The sentencing for the convicted individuals is set for February 18, 2025, with Majeed facing a maximum of 20 years in prison and mandatory restitution, while the others could receive up to five years each.
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