4 Amish Men Charged In (Beard Cutting) Bizarre Attacks « CBS Pittsburgh KDKA
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Four Amish men have been arrested, charged in one of four bizarre attacks on other Amish people.
The attackers barge into homes and use scissors to cut the beards and hair of the victims.
Investigators believe members of the "Bergholz Clan," which has been described as a group of religious castoffs, are responsible.
The attacks have happened in four different counties in Eastern Ohio: Jefferson County, Holmes County, Trumbull County and Carroll County.
Experts say that Amish men are required to let their beards grow after they're married and that women follow Biblical rules that they're not to cut their hair.
The attacks, they say, are meant to shame and humiliate the victims.
"As one Amish man told me he'd rather be dead than have his beard cut off," said Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla.
Apparently, the motive was to punish people who had weak faith, and the attackers would take back hair to prove they had carried out the assaults.
The four men are charged with kidnapping and burglary in one of the four attacks. They're being held on $250,000 bond each.
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this is what an Amish pyschopath acts like I guess,lol!
lucy9359 4 weeks ago
im ex amish and my aunt married sams son 13 yrs ago and lived out there til 2 yrs ago when they managed to get away......i lived out there for 5 mo 12 years ago b4 i left the amish...back then it was not like its now.....
william83miller 3 months ago
I live 2 miles from this "Bergholz clan", and this is only a small bit of what is going on there. The 4 men who were arrested (one was released as mistaken identity) were following orders of their "leader" Sam Mullet, a tyrannical abusive bully. He was excommunicated from the U.S. Amish a few years ago, and is NOT recognized as Amish when out in public. He rules over his church members with a violent temper, and twisted sense of reality.
terriruth 4 months ago
im sorry but this is hilarious, all the other terrible stuff that happens in the world like genocide in Africa and the war in Libya and this happens. It is kind of good to see non violent attacks in the world
ImReadyD151 4 months ago