15-Month-Old Girl Was Starved to Death by Dad Connected to Black Supremacist Cult

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A Georgia man authorities say was connected to a black supremacist cult pleaded guilty Tuesday in the starvation death of his 15-month-old daughter, PEOPLE confirms.

Calvin McIntosh, 48, also pleaded guilty to three counts of cruelty to children, theAtlanta Journal-Constitutionreports.

McIntosh entered Alford pleas to the charges against him, allowing him to accept punishment while still maintaining his innocence.

The surprise plea came on the second day of jury selection for McIntosh’s trial.

Also charged in the case is McIntosh’s daughter Najlaa, who is also accused of murdering Alcenti and depriving three of McIntosh’s children of food — two of whom he fathered with her.

It is unclear when Najlaa will go to trial. Najlaa’s attorney Charles Wrinkle has said that Najlaa was also a victim of McIntosh.

The case came to light on November 11, 2014 when McIntosh nonchalantly walked into Atlanta’s Northside Hospital with the lifeless body of Alcenti.

The infant weighed only 7 pounds at the time of her death.

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Police later discovered Sweeting inside the Extended Stay room. She was catatonic and emaciated, wrapped in a blanket on the floor, 59 pounds and barely alive.

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“She was almost in a vegetative state and she was trying to communicate but all she could do was moan and make a little bit of noise,” says former Gwinnett County Police Department detective James Sweeney. “It was almost like looking at a skeleton but the skeleton is a living person.”

York, who blended his belief inblack supremacism with Eygyptian mysticismand UFOs, was also a staunch believer in polygamy and had sex with many of his female followers. A select group of his favorites became his wives.

Sweeney says McIntosh showed no remorse during a police interview. “It was like talking to somebody who is just so out of touch with reality that you can’t even bring them to reality even if you try.”

After Sweeting was found in the hotel, authorities also found journals referencing death and ritualistic practices, literature about the Nuwaubian cult and York.

“York had sexual relationships with multiple generations of the mother and the daughter,” Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills tells PEOPLE. “Calvin is nothing more than an emulation of York.”

source: people.com