''Main Wife' of Nuwaubian leader makes bail

EATONTON - One of the four women facing charges of child molestation along with Nuwaubian leader Malachi York has been released from jail after making bail. <br> <br> An Alpharetta man put up a $75,000 cash bond Tuesday for Kathy Johnson, the woman described by York&#39;s followers as his ``main wife.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge William Prior set the bond last week. A trial is expected in January. <br> <br> York remains in custody without bail. He is the leader of a quasi-religious sect that moved in 1993 from Brooklyn, New York, to a 400-acre rural property in Putnam County. <br> <br> York and Johnson were arrested in May and face charges of sexually abusing children in a 208-count state indictment and a four-count federal indictment. <br> <br> Three other women also are named in the state indictment, two of whom remain in custody without bail.

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