Marietta Woman Charged With Child's 1992 Murder: Report

MARIETTA, GA — A Marietta woman is behind bars and awaiting extradition to Florida on charges that she murdered a 3-year-old boy in 1992 while running a religious boarding school, say authorities. U.S. marshals and Cobb County sheriff's deputies arrested Anna Elizabeth Young-Anderson, 75, at her home Thursday in Marietta, the sheriff's office said.

Authorities have labeled Young a former "cult leader," and witnesses and victims recently came forward to testify against her before a grand jury, WSB-TV Channel 2 reported. The panel indicted Young on charges that she kept the boy in a cage and starved him to death.

A spokesman for the sheriff's office in Alachua County, Fla., told Channel 2 there were other cases at the Florida school in which children were beaten and locked in solitary confinement.

Young-Anderson previously served prison time for committing felony child abuse at the Florida school, the sheriff's office said. She was convicted of bathing a 12-year-old girl in a steel tub with chemicals, causing severe chemical burns to the victim.

Florida authorities secured a warrant for Young-Anderson's arrest on the new charges and contacted the U.S. marshals, who placed her home in the 100 block of Bridgestone Drive under surveillance last week, the Cobb sheriff's office said. The marshals and sheriff's deputies arrested Young-Anderson on Thursday, and she's being held in the Cobb County Jail.

Neighbors told Channel 2 that Young and her husband have lived in their house in Marietta for about 10 years and mainly keep to themselves.

Images: Shutterstock; below, Anna Elizabeth Young-Anderson (Cobb County Sheriff's Office)