The state judge, who set a $20,000 bail yesterday for five defendants arrested at a remote New Mexico compound where authorities say children were being trained to conduct school shootings, has a history of issuing low bail to violent offenders, the Fox News website reports today (August 14, 2018).
Judge Sarah Backus argued in a Taos, New Mexico court that prosecutors failed to convince her the five suspects posed specific threats to the community.
Police say the five Muslim radicals kept 11 starving children in a desert compound where they taught them to carry out school shootings.
Ryan Cangiolosi, chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico, said Backus "has put people in danger and created the risk that they [the suspects] could flee and harm other children and communities as well."
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