Richard Boddie
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Richard Boddie
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Posted: 12 Jun 2008 4:50PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Boddie
San Gabriel Valley Tribune Thursday June 12 2008 page A5.
A self described polygamist was convicted Wednesday of charges that he starved,tortured and abused his two wives and many of his 19 children.
A riverside County Superior Court in California found Mansa Musa Muhummed (Richard Boddie) guilty on 25 counts including torturing seven of the children, abusing 12 of them and falsely imprisoning the wives. He faces seven life sentences.
Muhummed, 55, shook his head as the verdict was read, prosecutor Julie Baldwin said.
Muhummed, whose birth name is Richard Boddie, told authorities that his Muslim faith gave him the right to take multiple wives. He was arrested in 1999 after one of his wives, Laura Cowan, managed to slip a 13 page letter to a postal service worker describing the abuse.
A self described polygamist was convicted Wednesday of charges that he starved,tortured and abused his two wives and many of his 19 children.
A riverside County Superior Court in California found Mansa Musa Muhummed (Richard Boddie) guilty on 25 counts including torturing seven of the children, abusing 12 of them and falsely imprisoning the wives. He faces seven life sentences.
Muhummed, 55, shook his head as the verdict was read, prosecutor Julie Baldwin said.
Muhummed, whose birth name is Richard Boddie, told authorities that his Muslim faith gave him the right to take multiple wives. He was arrested in 1999 after one of his wives, Laura Cowan, managed to slip a 13 page letter to a postal service worker describing the abuse.