THE leader of a religious cult ordered a one-year-old boy to be starved to death because he did not say “Amen” before a meal.

US PROSECUTORS agreed to unusual terms to win a guilty plea from a former religious cult member charged with starving her one-year-old son to death: if the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn.

A TODDLER whose remains were found in a suitcase in Philadelphia was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say “amen” after meals, said police.