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Thread #130071   Message #2924628
Posted By: Rapparee
10-Jun-10 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: The difference between right and wrong..
Subject: RE: BS: The difference between right and wrong..
I was gonna say....

Having spent 28 years working in Amish areas and counting some of the Amish among my good friends at the time I can assure you that crime among the Amish is just a prevalent as among the rest of us.

What truly distresses me are the "Yankees" who prey upon the Amish, as the Amish will only rarely report a crime. I know of three "Yankees" who grabbed a slightly mentally challenged Amish girl while she was walking to her home, raped her repeatedly, infected her, impregnated her, and threw her from their van at 30 mph. She lived, and in this case the Amish community called in the sheriff, who had the three in jail in short order. The Amish forgave; the Yankee community was ready for a lynch party, but the three ended up with "life without parole."