Micanopy cult leader indicted for child's murder

[muriel_volestrangler]

This week, young was indicted by a grand jury for the unlawful death of little Emon Harper, also known as Moses, who deputies say Young was related to. But deputies say they have reason to believe she's been hiding an even darker past.

"It's not just one isolated incident of beatings," Forgey said. "There were numerous children that were beaten, locked in solitary confinement, food-withheld."

The matriarch of a cult-like religious boarding school in Micanopy, "Mother Anna" was charged with felony child abuse back in 1992. Young fled from Florida, but was captured eight years later. In 2001, she was sentenced to six months and 12 days in jail for bathing a 12 year old girl in a steel tub with chemicals causing severe chemical burns.
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Several people came forward within the last year accusing Young of torturing, punishing, caging, and starving children at the House of Prayer, which authorities are calling, the "house of horrors."

http://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Micanopy-cult-leader-indicted-for-childs-murder-461417473.html

Young operated the House of Prayer for All People in the 700 block of Southeast 138th Avenue off Wacahoota Road, near Micanopy from about 1985 to 1995.
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“We think there are many, many more. We can document other states and other missing children that we believe are tied into this,” Forgey said. “They ran a religious institution — exorcising demons and other things like that. We have documentation involving her clear back the ’60s. We did extensive forensic examination on the property this summer. We are still analyzing the evidence that we gathered.”
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Records from the Alachua County Property Appraiser indicate Anna and Robert Young bought the property in 1983. In 1985 they transferred it to the House of Prayer for All People Selah, Inc., a nonprofit.

Officials would not say when they began taking in children and how the children came to be in their care.

http://www.gainesville.com/news/20171201/religious-home-owner-now-75-charged-in-childs-death

[MineralMan]

1. Horror story.

Just one of many, with most going untold. Ugh!

[struggle4progress]

2. ... Alachua County Sheriff's spokesman Art Forgey says the death of the toddler, named Emon Harper,

was investigated after the sheriff's office received information, though State Attorney Bill Cervone notes no body has been recovered ...
http://www.newser.com/story/252417/shes-charged-in-childs-death-officials-think-it-goes-deeper.html

It seems to be a long-cold disappearance case from 25 or 30 years ago