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 Hello, My name is
Habibah Washington and today I’m here to put on record, the
truth behind all of the lies brought up in the case against
Malachi York. I’m going to start off by saying that I’m not
being forced, threatened, coerced or pressured to do this
tape. I am also going to state that, as you can tell, I’m not
under any kind of influence to alcohol or drugs. I want to
begin with all of the events that led up to the final verdict
in the case against Malachi. I want to start off with how it
started, where it started, when and the reason why.
I left the community in February of 2001. I moved from Georgia
and I went to New York and moved with my family. In about
March of 2001, I was contacted by Jacob. Jacob is the son of
Malachi York; he’s also an ex-member.
Jacob contacted me and
our conversation was basically about the good times that we
had in the community, what we went through, how we grew up,
just making up for old times. Two months after that, Jacob
called me. This was in May. Jacob called me about a trip to
Florida, a trip where some of the girls and boys, ex members
that were going to go down to Florida, just to hang out, have
fun, whatever. I agreed to go on
the trip. I told Jake I’ll
come on the trip. I left from New York, went to Georgia, we
all met up at Jacob’s house. It was me, Jacob, Nicole Lopez, Nuh Rashid, ‘Aiys, Istiyr, probably some other girls and boys,
I don’t remember.
Before we actually went down to Florida I had a conversation
with Jacob outside of his house and Jacob brought up some
feelings that he had about his father. Jacob was really upset
with his father. He stated that he hated his father, that he
felt that his father doesn’t need to be alive, that he
shouldn’t even be given life. He felt that his father needs to
just rot in jail. Jacob wanted all of us to, all of us meaning
me, Nicole, Karima, he was talking to a couple of people,
different people that left the community. He wanted us to
bring a case against his father. Jacob told me that some of
the girls and boys that left the community had went to the
government about different things that was going on in the
community, meaning child molestation. Before I left the
community, I was the main person in charge of the finances, as
well as in charge of anything that went on in the community.
The living, eating, anything financial, anything that happened
regarding any of the members in the community, I dealt with
that, so I was basically in charge.
 Jacob told me that the FBI knew who I was and that they were
told about certain things that I’ve done in the community and
some of those things I could be incriminated for. Jacob told
me that if I don’t go to the FBI first then they would come
after me, they would incarcerate me, they would take my
children away from me because there are things that they were
told about me that could incriminate me.
When Jacob first talked to me about that, I was not interested
in bringing out any charges against his father. I didn’t see
any reason. I didn’t believe that anything was going on, I
didn’t believe that anything was wrong, we wasn’t doing any
criminal acts. Jacob brought up the fact that I had a son by
his father at 17 years old. I told Jacob that my son with his
father never came about because I was forced to have sex with
his father. Yes I was seventeen years old and yes I did agree
to have a child with his father at that age. I understood my
age, I understood his age, I didn’t see anything wrong with
it, I consented to it, so I told Jacob that that’s the way
that I felt. I didn’t feel that anything wrong happened. That
we both agreed to it. I felt that I was an adult, it was my
decision and I went with it. But Jacob proceeded to say that
there were some things that some of the other ex members had
went to the government with and that I should really talk to
them and see what’s up and see how I can clear my name so that
I’m not prosecuted for any of those things.
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