ATLANTA _ Court records allege a Georgia man who was arrested at a New Mexico desert compound was in the desert training kids to become school shooters.
The documents claim Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was conducting weapons training when he was found Friday with 11 children in allegedly "Third World" conditions. Wahhaj is also wanted in Clayton County in a child abduction case involving his son.
The documents say a person serving as a foster parent caring for one of the kids revealed the details about training the children.
Authorities are working to determine if the remains of a young boy found near the compound Monday are Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj's. Monday was (or would've been) the child's 4th birthday. The court filing says the remains were in a state of decomposition.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj learned Wednesday that prosecutors want him held without bond, along with his relatives also arrested at the compound: Lucas Allen Morton, Jany Leveille, Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhannah Wahhaj. Siraj Wahhaj is also accused by Clayton County authorities of abducting his son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, in December.
The defendants will face hearings in the coming days to find out if they'll continue to be held in jail without bond, officials said.
The missing boy's father also is awaiting extradition to Georgia. Siraj Wahhaj was arrested Friday in the compound in the northern New Mexico desert. Child welfare workers took custody of 11 children.
The father had been wanted since December, when the child's mother told Clayton police he took the boy away after speaking of performing an "exorcism" on his son because Abdul-Ghani was "possessed by the devil."
Before learning of the body found, the mother, Hakima Ramzi, told CNN her husband wasn't actually intending an exorcism but instead was planning a ruqya. It's an Islamic practice involving prayer believed to help cure illness.
The boy had struggled with neurological problems from hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, which is brain damage caused when an infant's brain doesn't receive enough oxygen and blood. He can't walk and suffers from seizures, police said.
"It's not an exorcism. That was a translation issue in the court," Ramzi said. The father "just wanted to pray for Abdul-Ghani to get better."
The mother told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday morning she was too upset to talk.
The Taos County sheriff said the children found were living in "filthy," "third world" conditions with almost no food and wore dirty rags.
A neighbor told Taos News he'd known the residents and thought the kids were well cared for.
"We've lived out here for four years," he said. "Out of all the people that come out here, those were the most kindest people I've ever met in my life."
