Compound raid discovers 11 kids along with bizarre tale

A RAID on a New Mexico desert compound turned up 11 children living in filth, and also revealed a strange tale of guns, exorcism, and a search for a missing young boy who suffers from seizures.

The boy’s father was among five people arrested in the raid near the border with Colorado.

Documents in a court filing on Monday said the father told the boy’s mother before fleeing Georgia that he wanted to perform an exorcism on the child because he believed he was possessed by the devil.

Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said deputies arrested the father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and four others on child abuse charges after finding the children in a compound (pictured) in the community of Amalia.

Wahhaj, 39, was armed with a variety of firearms including a loaded AR-15.

His son, Abdul-ghani, who was three when he disappeared late last year, was not among the children found.

But Sheriff Hogrefe said authorities have reason to believe the boy was at the compound several weeks ago.

His deputies are searching for the child, along with the FBI and Georgia authorities in Clayton County, where officials say the boy was living before his father took him around December 1.

The boy’s mother told authorities the boy suffers from seizures, cannot walk because of severe medical issues, and requires constant attention.