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I am a survivor of sexual abuse. I am the Daughter of the late Bishop William J.Swartzentruber.Rape and Molestation is a serious issue within our Amish Culture.

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  • I know all about rape in the Amish community. My Amish neighbor raped a then 15-year-old girl and got her pregnant. To keep the incident quiet the community made the two of them get married.

    The man went on to sexually molest his own children and other children in the neighborhood. A truly disgusting individual.

  • Yes, that is the way ordnung is within our Amish Culture.

    It does not matter if you were raped or not if you are pregnant you will have to get married to whom ever got you pregnant.

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  • oh my, poor thing she is very brave to do that. God Bless you Ma'am!

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  • worrying

  • Some people may say that this kind of stuff happens in all societies, however, in the mainstream, a woman has more of a chance and is not trapped in quite the same way as is in the closed society of the Amish... I've actually heard that there is a lot of abuse going on... I don't think their goal of separating from society to become closer to God is working.

  • Wishing you the best in your cause from Hull, England.

  • @aniwaya38 You illiterate ahole, they are SO genuine, yes the have a website. You dumb fool, they are using computers so they can help abused Amish.

  • Abuse is everywhere and not only amongst the Amish. It is wrong to single out the Amish as either better or worse than the outside world.

  • You are very brave to come on here and to tell the truth about what happened to you. I think we non-Amish tend to see Amish life as idyllic but in fact, the Amish community has some of the same problems as the English community.

  • aniwaya38, why do you deny that there is abuse in Amish families???

    The Amish have the same problems in their culture that non-Amish have.

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