About As "Close" As You Can Get

"To say that someone is crazy because they have beliefs is very difficult. If I believe that God wants me to starve my child, that gets close to the edge,..."

-- Dr. Jonas Rappeport, a retired forensic psychiatrist and the former chief medical officer for the Baltimore Circuit Court, while speaking about cultist Ria Ramkissoon, above, who starved her child to death on the orders of "Queen Antoinette" in the One Mind Ministries case, covered by The Associated Press.

There's also this:

[Ramkissoon's] plea agreement [that her guilty plea to child abuse resulting in death will be withdrawn if her 1-year-old son, Javon Thompson, comes back to life] also calls for Ramkissoon to meet with Rick Ross, who has studied cults for more than 25 years and counsels former cult members. Ross said cult members often take years to realize how they've been manipulated. They exhibit behavior that "seems crazy to us because we're outside the control of the group and the environment of the group," Ross said. "In reality, what we're actually seeing is an individual under undue influence."