TAOS, N.M. — Three people accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound remained jailed Wednesday as New Mexico authorities sought to satisfy the conditions of their release set by a judge. “The conditions for their release have not yet been met,” Taos County spokesman Steve Fuhlendorf said Wednesday evening. The legal proceedings against the suspects will be staged in Taos, a community rattled by threats against the judge who cleared the way for the suspects to be released. Lawyer Marie Legrand Miller, who represents defendant Hujrah Wahhaj, said the release of her client is being delayed over concerns about safety. The 35-year-old native of Haiti is the mother of six children taken into state custody during the compound raid.

Source: National Post August 15, 2018 17:01 UTC