New Mexico compound Judge receives death threats

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – A New Mexico Judge has received death threats after granting bail to five adults arrested at a desert compound.

Judge Sarah Backus said the prosecution had not convinced her, the defendants were a threat to the community.

Police had arrested the two adults and three women at a remote compound raided in the search for a missing three-year-old boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.

Officers found 11 starving children and the buried remains of a toddler in a case that has shocked the country.