Javon Thompson Didn’t Say Amen
August 12, 2008 by impqueen
JRia “Princess Marie” Ramkissoon and her son, Javon Thompson
Baltimore, MD and PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia reviews
, PA – When Javon Thompson died, he was only about 18 months old. Sometime between December 2006 and February 2007, the toddler was killed and left in a green suitcase in a shed in Philadelphia. Little Javon was starved to death by the members of his mother’s cult because he wouldn’t – or couldn’t – say “Amen” at mealtime prayers. Now Javon’s mother, Ria “Princess Marie” Ramkissoon, and four other cult members are charged with his murder.  Â
Ria Ramkissoon, now 21, left her family and went to live with 1 Mind Ministries in December 2006, taking one-year-old Javon Thompson with her. Ria was given the honored title “Princess Marie” in the cult, which was run by a woman calling herself “Queen Antoinette”. Her real name is Toni Ellsberry or Toni Sloan. Antoinette, 40, lived with Steven Bynum, 42, Trevia Williams, 21, and Marcus Cobbs, 21.   Not one of these cultish lemmings lifted a hand to save baby Javon. Not even his own mother.
Shortly after moving in with the group, Queen Antoinette decided that Javon should say “Amen” after grace, like the other children did. Problem was, the other children were school-aged and Javon was a toddler.  Cult members say Javon was “defiant”; more likely, he thought that bitch was crazy. So Javon didn’t say “Amen”. Maybe because he was about fifteen months old at the time, yathink?
Queen Antoinette’s punishment for Javon not saying “Amen” was simply to withhold food and water until the next meal, when he was given a chance to say it again. When he couldn’t or wouldn’t comply, Javon got no food and water for that meal either. At no time did Ria Ramkissoon pick up her baby and get the hell out of there. At no time did anyone call for medical assistance. The group watched baby Javon’s eyes go dark. They watched him dehydrate and starve. And they watched him die.
Once Javon was dead, Queen Antoinette put him in a room and told the cult members that God would resurrect the toddler. But she was apparently unclear on the resurrection process, and Javon did not come back to life.
After a week, Antoinette had cult members undress Javon and burn his clothes. She then put the baby’s body in a green suitcase with some fabric softener sheets and whole lotta Lysol.  Then she decided it was time for 1 Mind Ministries to move on. So the group went to Philly for a month or so in February, 2007. They took the suitcase containing Javon’s rotting corpse with them. What I wanna know is, how stank were these people that nobody noticed a dead body smell coming from a suitcase?
After a month, 1 Mind got evicted from a hotel and moved in on some poor old guy in Philly. He kicked them out after a few days, but told them they could leave some of their stuff. Which they did. In his shed. For a year. In the meantime, Ria Ramkissoon’s mother had been trying for months to take the group to court for custody of Javon. The case never got anywhere because Ria and the group kept missing court dates, and because it appears that social services agencies didn’t really take Ria’s mother seriously. It wasn’t until after two other children were removed from the group and placed in foster care that anyone paid attention to what might have happened to little Javon.
In February 2008, a social worker notified Baltimore police that she had worked with children who said Javon had starved to death and was left in a suitcase. In May, Baltimore homicide detectives took a run over to the shed in Philly where Javon’s coffin-slash-suitcase was stored, and child custody became a non-issue. The baby’s body was so deteriorated that visual identification was impossible.
Also in May, Queen Antoinette, Trevia Williams, and Marcus Cobbs were arrested in New York, where the group had settled, on assault charges. They’d gotten into a physical fight with police during a child custody hearing, although it’s not clear whether that hearing was connected to Javon’s case.
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10, Ria Ramkissoon was located in a homeless shelter in Baltimore and arrested. She has been charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, reckless endangerment and conspiracy, among other crimes, and is being held without bond. Antoinette, Bynum, Williams and Cobbs have all been charged with murder and other crimes as well. Antoinette, Williams and Cobbs remain in custody in New York. Steven Bynum left the group when they moved to Brooklyn and remains at large.
Unamused Cat has been following this case in our forums.
“Queen Antoinette”, L, and Trevia Williams, R
9:09 am on August 12th, 2008
Stupid fucks, seriously!
10:08 am on August 12th, 2008
Lets make our own cult for these bastards and put them in our beliefes and traditions…… we will see if they like that???????????
KILL THEM ALL, an eye for an eye, so sad for that poor little one, now he is in heaven safe and sound
10:50 am on August 12th, 2008
Please please find a picture of these assholes!! Especially the mother of this poor child. I wish we had the eye for an eye rule here!!
Very sad
11:04 am on August 12th, 2008
Ah God, that poor baby, how can any mother sit by and watch her baby starve to death?
I hope these people can get the death penalty, it was premeditated murder..
12:01 pm on August 12th, 2008
Freaks! I can never wrap my pointed head around the whole “cult” thingy. I just don’t get it. “In the name of all that is Holy, kill a child of God…” Makes no sense to me. I NEVER say Amen before I eat. Maybe I should be starved and thrown in a suitcase. I challenge Mommy dearest here to do it.
12:09 pm on August 12th, 2008
Die, die, die, you crazy fucks. Again, if your religion requires you to hurt yourself or others, you probably shouldn’t be taking part in the religion. What fucked-up god wants you to torture children?
12:23 pm on August 12th, 2008
WTF?!!!! Stupid stupid people! Starving babies and abandoning the bodies? WTF?!! I hope they fry them all!
3:56 pm on August 12th, 2008
I read about this on CNN. Apparently, “Queen” would occasionally open the suitcase and douse the wee one’s corpse with Lysol. WT Mother F.
6:03 pm on August 12th, 2008
The God that says obedience is necessary to authority — church authority.
12:17 am on August 13th, 2008
I remember reading about this I guess before finding DD. I just can’t even begin to fathom how a mother could stand to see her baby suffer. Drugs, F-stupid, mentally unstable…god knows. I just can’t imagine how that poor baby suffered.
Rest in peace baby Javon.
8:59 am on August 13th, 2008
Added picture of Ria Ramkissoon, Javon’s mother, to top of article. She’s kinda hot for a babykiller.
9:43 am on August 13th, 2008
She is, I agree. What’s with all these beautiful, young killers? Magic Cooter is really pretty cute, too, for someone whose been in jail for a while.
Philly is where the man started a “church” made up of retarded people. He took their $ and made a half-million on the stock market. Then the police found his old girlfriend in that trunk in his room. Ah, Philly, also home of the MOVE idiots who burnt down half a block of homes with the Mayor’s help.
11:50 am on August 15th, 2008
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12:51 pm on August 19th, 2008
Well. I guess they wanted to put the fear of god into him.
8:21 pm on August 19th, 2008
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9:06 pm on August 25th, 2008
Article updated with photos of Javon, “Queen Antoinette” and Trevia Williams.
8:24 pm on March 30th, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511651,00.html
Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed to testify against four other members of the now-defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson.
According to a statement of facts, the cult members stopped feeding the boy when he refused to say “Amen” after a meal. After Javon died, Ramkissoon sat next to his decomposing body and prayed for his resurrection.
Ramkissoon’s attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said Ramkissoon believes the resurrection will occur. She agreed to plead guilty only after prosecutors said they would drop the charges if the child comes back to life, Silverman said.
“This is something that she absolutely insisted upon, and this is indicative of the fact that she is still brainwashed, still a victim of this cult,” he said. “Until she’s deprogrammed, she’s not going to think any differently.”
Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy J. Doory assured Ramkissoon that the plea would indeed be withdrawn if the child is resurrected.
Ramkissoon pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse resulting in death. She will remain in custody until she testifies against her co-defendants and will receive a suspended 20-year sentence and serve five years probation. Sentencing was scheduled for Aug. 11. By then, Ramkissoon would have spent about a year behind bars.
one year???????? Bullshit…..
8:51 am on July 14th, 2009
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