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Report: Cult infant starved to death, buried in state park
by Dave Wedge


Friday, July 13, 2001


An infant found buried in a Maine state park last year was the son of an
Attleboro cult leader and his wife and medical tests have proven that the boy
starved to death, prosecutors say.
``It's what we expected,'' Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Walter
Shea said of the Maine medical examiner's report. ``The remains have been
positively identified as those of Samuel Robidoux. The remains indicate that
the cause of death was starvation and the manner of death is homicide.''

A forensic anthropologist determined the child died of starvation because of
the ``lack of bone marrow'' and the size of the tiny skeleton, Shea said.

Samuel Robidoux, who was 10 months old, was missing for nearly a year before
a member of the Attleboro-based religious sect ``The Body'' led investigators
to a makeshift grave in Maine's Baxter State Park last October. The boy's
parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, face charges that they starved the boy
to death to fulfill a bizarre religious prophecy set forth by the boy's aunt,
Michelle Mingo.

Jacques Robidoux, the 27-year-old reputed leader of the fundamentalist
religious group, faces first-degree murder charges while his wife is charged
with second-degree murder. Mingo is charged with being an accessory for
allegedly concocting a ``vision from God'' that ordered the tight-knit sect
to feed Samuel only breast milk, even though he had already started eating
table food.


Prosecutors say the boy slowly starved to death over a six-week period in the
summer of 1999 and was later buried alongside his stillborn cousin in Maine.

Yesterday, the Robidouxes and Mingo were supposed to give handwriting samples
to determine who wrote several journals that graphically detail Samuel's slow
demise. The trio refused to give the samples, however, because prosecutors
gave them something different to write than what an Attleboro judge ordered.

Jacques Robidoux's attorney, Frank O'Boy, said his client would follow the
court order to write the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, but Shea says the
state's handwriting expert needs a more thorough sample to analyze.

``They wanted them to write something different and he refused,'' O'Boy said.
``My client will do what the court ordered him to do, but nothing beyond.''

Shea said both sides will go back to court to agree on what the three will
write.

O'Boy also said he will seek to have the case moved out of Bristol County
because of widespread publicity, a move Shea said prosecutors would oppose.

Shea said there have been no plea negotiations with any of the three but
sources said Karen Robidoux may seek to have her trial separated from her
husband's case.
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