Alameda County, CA

Alameda County, CA: (Sep-18-07) Three women brought charges against Yusuf Bey, former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader, alleging that he sexually assaulted and abused them as minors after the county placed them in his home. The three women were foster children or wards of the court from 1978 and were placed in the care of Bey's wife, Nora Bey, by county social workers. The women were ages 10, 12 and 13 when first placed with the Beys. The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court on July 7, 2003, claimed that Yusuf Bey routinely raped the women, forced them to drink his urine and semen and threatened them with harm if they ever told anyone. In addition, two of the women, who are sisters, were impregnated by Bey. Sources claimed that one of those women is the mother of Joshua Bey, 20, who is one of three Your Black Muslim Bakery members currently facing kidnapping, torture and false imprisonment charges stemming from an incident involving two women in Oakland.

Also charged in that case is Yusuf Bey IV, 21, Joshua's half- brother and another son of Yusuf Bey, who founded the bakery in 1967 and died of colon cancer at the age of 67 in September of 2003 while awaiting trial on criminal charges of raping a minor. Yusuf Bey IV is the current leader of the bakery, which currently is in the hands of a bankruptcy trustee and is for sale. In a settlement reached, Alameda County agreed to pay $188,000 to settle the sexual abuse lawsuit. [CBS NEWS: FOSTER CARE ABUSE]

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Published on Sep-19-07