Last night there was a story on Dateline about a teenage girl who had run away because she'd been molested by her older brothers since she was 12, and when she told the cops on them, her mother said she was a liar and had all her teeth pulled out! It was a terrible story. She got away but is now shunned! Here's the link, the girl's name is Anna Slaybaugh and her story is way down the page. The others are awful too. One girls' brothers were 'punished' by the Amish community, but only by being banned from church for 6 weeks!
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.html
It's very said, it looks like brother-sister incest is more common than anyone wants to think in the Amish world and because of their seclusion from society, and their culture that forces all females to submit to all males, including brothers. Even the mothers take up for the boys and blame the girls, even when they are being held down. It's sickening and sad.
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.html
It's very said, it looks like brother-sister incest is more common than anyone wants to think in the Amish world and because of their seclusion from society, and their culture that forces all females to submit to all males, including brothers. Even the mothers take up for the boys and blame the girls, even when they are being held down. It's sickening and sad.
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