SoCal Polygamist Guilty of Torturing 19 Children, 2 Wives
A Riverside County Superior Court jury found Mansa Musa Muhummed 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.
His wives and children were not present in court but they plan to attend his sentencing, which is scheduled for August 1, she said.
Muhummed, whose birth name was 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.