Amish Man Arrested for Allegedly Molesting 8 Children

wnep ^ | Julie Melf

[Viennacon]

you may want more than two cases to make a point with any force.... especially since i can probably find two cases of rape outside the Amish community conducted in the last couple of days, without going back to 2007

[Morgana]

I do remember a case on Dateline? The girls left the community but not before getting their rapists busted. It was not hard for police to bust then since Amish boys won’t lie. Still the community supported the rapists in court and cried for them and not the girls who left. I saw this about what? 15 years ago? Hard to say. I just remember the girls were told they were “unforgiving”. BS. More like the community is into “coverup”.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh! Oh! That’s right. But Naomi said, “That man is *our* close relative; he is one of *our* guardian-redeemers” (They didn’t make a distinction, sometimes, between related by blood or related by marriage.) But Boaz still had to give some other guy first dibs on Ruth because thothe guy was more closely related (Ruth 3:12).

Cousins have the same grandfather. When grandpa dies, both cousins (married to each other) would be full joint heirs. Cousin-marriage is considered ideal by some landholding people because it keeps the property in the family.

Yeah, and genetic complications occur. Especially when the “pool” of people you’re eligible to marry, is small: as when religious subgroups form with only a small number of families. This sometimes occur amongst the Amish and Mennonites when a group with their “bishop” splits from the rest of the church, and the bishop wants them not to marry outside the group.

They are much more aware of it now, and are more apt to pore over genealogies or even agree to DNA analysis before deciding whether a particular marriage match-up is suitable.