Thinking Outside The Box (To Get You In One)

"A woman who once lived with three people accused of leading a cult testified Thursday that they committed her to a mental hospital to keep her quiet about a toddler's starvation death.

Danielle Smith, 26, said she tried to alert neighbors to the boy's death but couldn't because she was not left alone with outsiders.

The three defendants - Toni Sloan, who's known in court as Queen Antoinette, 41; her daughter, Trevia Williams, 22; and acquaintance Marcus Cobbs, 23 - have pleaded not guilty to murder charges. They're accused of depriving Javon Thompson of food after the 16-month-old, who could barely talk, refused to say "amen" and are representing themselves in Baltimore City Circuit Court.

Smith said she left a vague hint of the child's death scrawled across one wall - the sentence 'We love our children' - before the group put her out of its New York City apartment, where it had moved after Javon died in Baltimore. A day later, the group escorted her to the psychiatric ward of Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

'The people at the hospital thought I was crazy,' Smith said. She was there a month, yet she was able to tell her story to police and a caseworker at a New York child protective agency, leading to the group's arrest. Smith was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after she left the hospital.

Like everyone else in the household, Smith did nothing to save Javon while he was dying. She testified that the front door of their shared Baltimore apartment was locked and that she didn't think she could escape with the boy out the back door.

'I actually worried most about what Queen Antoinette would do,' Smith said."

-- Tricia Bishop, showing the level of depravity cults will lower themselves to, in an effort to avoid detection - the crazy having the injured committed as insane is pretty out there - but is also typical of these evil nutcases, since they rarely get exposure before they kill, like the kind they're getting in The Baltimore Sun.