Cult member’s guilty plea over son’s death ‘to be withdrawn if he’s resurrected’

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cult member charged with starving her one-year-old son to death: if the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn.

Ria Ramkissoon, 22, has also agreed to testify against four other members of the defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson, whose body was kept in a suitcase packed with mothballs and fabric softener sheets long after he died.

Ramkissoon’s lawyer said the resurrection clause Ramkissoon insisted on shows that she is still “brainwashed” and needs the psychological treatment that is planned as part of her sentencing.

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