A federal judge in Kansas sentenced Kaaba Majeed, 51, to 10 years in prison for forcing
Co-defendants received the following sentences for forced labor conspiracy:
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Yunus Rassoul, 39 – five years’ probation
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James Staton, 63 – five years in prison, one year supervised release
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Randolph Rodney Hadley, 50 – five years in prison, one year supervised release
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Daniel Aubrey Jenkins, 44 – four years in prison, one year supervised release
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Dana Peach, 60 – four years in prison, one year supervised release
After a 26-day trial in September 2024, a jury convicted all six of conspiracy, and Majeed on five additional forced labor counts. Etenia Kinard, 49, and Jacelyn Greenwell, 46, who pleaded guilty, will be sentenced Sept. 22.
At trial, prosecutors proved all six defendants were former high-ranking members of the United Nation of Islam (UNOI) who helped founder Royall Jenkins—who falsely claimed to be Allah—run the organization’s businesses, including restaurants, bakeries, gas stations, a lab, and a clothing factory. Defendant Dana Peach was also one of Jenkins’s wives.
From October 2000 to November 2012, they conspired to force more than a dozen victims—including children as young as eight—to work unpaid up to 16 hours a day in UNOI businesses across multiple states and as domestic servants in defendants’ homes. Control was maintained through beatings, threats, isolation, and deprivation of food and water, while defendants lived comfortably and victims endured overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.
The scheme lured parents with false promises of education and job training, then isolated victims from their families, forcing them into an unlicensed, unaccredited school and subjecting them to strict rules, monitored communications, punishments, and humiliation to compel labor.
The FBI Kansas City Field Office led the investigation.