Two Toddlers Missing in Suspected Cult Case
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When a child goes missing, families are faced with so many worries, but few are prepared for the unthinkable: that their disappearance may be linked to a cult.
It all started in November 2022. Ma’Kayla Wickerson and her 2-year-old daughter, Malaiyah Wickerson, moved from St. Louis to Berkeley, Missouri, on what Ma’Kayla described to her family as a “spiritual journey.” Ma’Kayla’s mother, Cartisha Morgan, said she was nervous about the decision from the start.
Soon after the move, phone calls became infrequent, and then nonexistent.
Eight months later, in July 2023, a similar story was repeating 300 miles away. Gerrielle German and her 3-year-old son, Ashton Mitchell, moved from Lake Horn, Mississippi, into that same house in Berkeley.
Ashton’s grandmother, Shelita Gibson, described an almost identical experience with Cartisha. She too felt very uneasy about the move and didn’t know any of the people her daughter or grandson were living with as part of this “spiritual journey.”
“I just didn’t have a good feeling about the whole thing,” Shelita said. “But my daughter was adamant, and I couldn’t stop her from going.”
And the same pattern again. Soon after the move, phone calls stopped completely.
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