6 people missing from St. Louis area believed to be in clutches of online cult
A half-dozen people in Missouri who were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said.
A half-dozen people in Missouri who were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said.
The cult is led by Rashad Jamal, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence in Georgia after he was convicted in August of one count of child molestation and one count of cruelty to children, police in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley said.
Berkeley Police Maj. Steve Runge told NBC affiliate KSDK of St. Louis last week investigators believe the missing six have become followers of Jamal, a former rapper-turned-online guru who operates what he calls the University of Cosmic Intelligence.
Jamal’s website says it is “GEARED TOWARDS ENLIGHTENING AND ILLUMINATING THE MINDS OF THE CARBONATED BEINGS A.K.A YOUR SO CALLED BLACK & LATINO PEOPLE OF EARTH.”
“I would like to know that they’re OK so that I can get a good night’s sleep," Shelita Gibson, whose daughter and grandson are among the missing, told KSDK. "I would like to know they’re not hungry, they’re not cold, that no one is making her do things that she would have to pay for in the long run."
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