The three Muslim mothers who were found on a New Mexico compound on Friday with 11 starving children have been pictured in their mugshots after being charged with child abuse.

Sisters Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, and Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, were charged along with their sister-in-law Jany Leveille, 35 on Sunday, two days after police first said they had been 'brainwashed' by the men at the compound.

The men are Siraj Wahhaj, 39. He is a brother two of the women and is married to Leveille. Also arrested was Lucas Morton, Subhanah's husband.

Siraj has been missing since December when he vanished from Georgia with his three-year-old disabled son, AG.

Police say he planned to perform an exorcism on the boy who he believed was possessed. AG cannot walk or talk due to a condition caused by brain damage at birth.

Police who were looking for him and and his father had been monitoring the compound in New Mexico but it was not until a message from one of the victims inside emerged to say they were 'starving' that authorities finally went in.

The message was intercepted by Taos County Sheriff's Office. It read: 'We are starving and need food and water.'

Sisters Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, (left) and Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, (right) were arrested on Sunday

Jany Leveille, who also goes by the name Maryam, was also arrested for child abuse on Sunday

Authorities will not say how the message was delivered or who gave it to them but Sheriff Hogrefe said it meant he could not wait any longer for federal authorities to move in on the site.

Sheriff Hogrefe said on Friday that the family was considered 'extremist of the Muslim belief'.

The Wahhaj siblings are the children of the Imam Siraj Wahhaj, 68, who is the leader of the Muslim Alliance of North America.

They have been missing together since at least January when their father appealed for information of their whereabouts on social media.

On Friday, Wahhaj was found in the compound with an AR-15 rifle, five magazines loaded with 30 rounds and four loaded pistols.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, had an AR-15 rifle, 150 rounds of ammunition and four loaded pistols at the site. He has been on the run since December when he vanished with his three-year-old disabled son from Georgia. The toddler was not found. His brother-in-law Lucas Morton (right) was also charged with harboring a fugitive. He is married to Siraj's sister Subhanah

This is the New Mexico compound where 11 children were found on Friday being held by their Muslim extremist father and uncle, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, along with their parents

Not found was Wahhaj's three-year-old son AG who cannot walk or talk due to hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, a condition caused by brain damage.

Siraj's three-year-old son AG, who has hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and requires daily medication, has been missing since December and was not at the compound

When police closed in on the property on Friday, his father initially refused to follow orders.

Police worried that the raid would end violently because of the fact he was so heavily armed.

'We had learned the occupants were most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief.

'We also knew from the layout of the compound they would have an advantage if we didn’t deploy tactfully and quickly,' Sheriff Hogrefe of the Taos County Sheriff Department said in a statement.

The children had been at the site for months without food and were so skinny their ribs were showing.

The only food found on the compound was a box of rice and some potatoes.

Sheriff Hogrefe described the conditions as the saddest he had ever seen in 30 years of police work.

'We all gave the kids our water and what snacks we had – it was the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,' he said, adding that the children looked like 'third world refugees.'

The conditions inside the compound were described by police as the worst they had seen in 30 years

There was no food at the compound and the children had terrible personal hygiene, police said

Amalia is 145 miles northeast of Albuquerque and in an isolated high-desert area near the New Mexico-Colorado border

'I've been a cop for 30 years. I've never seen anything like this. Unbelievable.

'They were skinny, their ribs showed, they were in very poor hygiene and very scared.

'They had 'no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing,' he told ABC.

Siraj Wahhaj has been on the run since December when he vanished with AG after telling his mother he was taking him to the park.

AG's mother Hakima Ramzi has made desperate social media appeals to find her son again.

Her friends have also set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for the search.

The family has been missing since January when their father, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, appealed for information about them on Facebook

The children's grandfather is Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the leader of the Muslim Alliance of North America and the leader of a mosque in Brooklyn, New York City

Sisters Hujrah (left) and Subhana (right) are pictured. They grew up in New York City and relocated to the South with their brother in 2014

The toddler suffers from seizures, developmental delay, wears braces on his legs, cannot walk, and requires daily medication.

His parents were married for 15 years until he vanished in December.

In a Facebook plea for information about her son and husband's whereabouts, Ramzi appealed directly to Subhannah, one of the three mothers found on the compound.

She said: 'It's not about you.

AG's mother Hakima Ramzi was married to his father without incident for 15 years, she said. She has been pleading for AG's return since December and is seen above in a Facebook video appealing for help to find them

'This is all about my son.

'He needs his medication. My worry is not about Subhannah and her kids. My worry is about my son because he is sick.

'He needs his medication, he needs everything. I don't know if he is alive. Please, please, please, I need your help.

'I need my son back to me and then I will leave you alone,' she said.

Wahhaj is the son of Imam Surraj Wahhaj, 68, who belongs to the Masjid At Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New York.

The earliest record of him in the United States dates back to 1983.

It is not clear where he lived beforehand or if he was born in the US.

In January, his father pleaded for information about their whereabouts.

'Dear Brothers and Sisters, please make duas for the safe return of our children and grandchildren: Siraj, Hujrah, Subhanah Wahhaj, son in law Luqman (Lucas) Morton, and daughter in law Maryam (Jany) Leveille and their children (our 12 grandchildren).

'We believe they may be traveling together,' he said in a Facebook post.

He has not commented on his children's arrest. Imam Wahhaj is the leader of The Muslim Alliance in North America.

Police are still looking for three-year-old AG.