Federal prosecutors have claimed that eight leaders of a Kansas-based ‘cult’ separated children as young as eight from their parents, physically abused them and put them to work in businesses across the U.S. in 16-hour-a-day shifts with no pay.
A 20-page filing by Kansas federal prosecutors alleged that the leaders of the United Nation of Islam, which was labeled a cult by a federal judge in 2018, encouraged parents to send their children to an unlicensed school in Kansas City. Those who failed to enroll would be put to work.
The accused leaders – Kaaba Majeed, Yunus Rassoul, James Staton, Randolph Rodney Hadley, Dana Peach, Etenia Kinard, and Jacelyn Greenwell – were arrested on Monday in various U.S. cities. They do not yet have lawyers listed in court records and were unable to be reached for comment.
