A startling new documentary exposing widespread sexual abuse in the Amish community shows girls brainwashed into thinking that rape or assault by a family member is normal and the result of their “neglect.”
The two-part peacock TV series “Sins of the Amish” follows four women from diverse Amish and Mennonite backgrounds – Meg, Mary, Misty and Audrey – as they share their personal stories of sexual abuse and their efforts to seek justice.
Mary spoke openly about the sexual abuse of her father and brothers Johnny, Eli and David, who grew up in an Amish community in Wisconsin, saying: “My first perpetrator was my biological father. I was five years old. ‘
According to the guide titled The Everyday Beast † “To the On the On Girl,” she discovered a sex education booklet given to her as a child while rummaging through her things and reading aloud. The guide girls said that incest was a natural phenomenon and it was their fault.
Mary spoke openly about the sexual abuse of her father and brothers Johnny, Eli and David in the Peacock television documentary “Sins of the Amish”
Once aroused and active in a man during puberty and beyond, this sex drive can become a powerful inner force. Any decent girl will do whatever she can to help him, so as not to complicate his work. Even at home, you should keep this in mind if you have teenage siblings,” she read.
“As your brother innocently approaches you and sees your partially exposed body, he may suddenly have strong sexual desires. His intentions were not bad, but he suddenly fell victim to your neglect of his own body’s lust.
The brochure also advised girls not to dress revealingly around male relatives and to keep their bedroom doors closed at night to prevent sexual abuse.
Mary, whose father died when she was a child, said that nothing could stop her brother from raping her, not even a locked door.
The two-part series follows four women from different Amish backgrounds as they share their personal stories of sexual abuse and seek justice (stock image)
“He would take the hinges off,” she said sobbing. “I remember you catching me and then I immediately remember being cut in two. It’s like you weren’t even there. When I came back, the door closed and she was gone.
The women and girls of the island’s religious community are taught to forgive their aggressors. Speaking out against rape is considered worse than the act itself.
“A predator’s paradise,” said Mary.
She found the strength to leave the community after learning that her brother had sexually abused her sister. She said her mother encouraged her sister to shut up and said, “You have to forgive.”
“If I do nothing, my sister will grow up and go through the same hell as her childhood just like me,” she said.
Mary discovered and read aloud a sex education booklet titled “In Eleven Years” that she had been given as a child. The guide taught the girls that incest is a natural phenomenon and that it is their fault.
“Amish communities see going to the police as a greater sin than the rape itself,” explains Misty, a survivor who admitted to having been raped by a bishop in the church.
When Mary brought her siblings to trial, buses full of Amish community members attended the trial to defend her rapists. Her mother even went so far as to deny harassment in a letter to the judge.
“I feel like he did it mainly out of stubbornness,” he wrote. “Since I’ve met Mary in person, she has a habit of making things worse than they are.”
Mary’s older brother Johnny, who confessed to raping her more than 200 times, was sentenced to just one year in prison with a work permit and 10 years probation.
“Amish communities see going to the police as a greater sin than rape itself,” says survivor Misty, who reported being raped by a bishop at the church.
Meanwhile, Meg and her sister Rebekah Growing up in Amish communities in Michigan and North Carolina, she shared similar stories of sexual abuse.
Her siblings began sexually abusing Rebekah when Rebekah was six and soon confessed to Meg that she had raped her. When Meg told her parents, Rebekah was accused of harassment.
Audrey, a mother of five who has recently left the Amish community, is suing her ex-husband Mike after she learns he sexually abused her three daughters.
Audrey’s eldest daughters, Marlena and Dorthea, came forward for harassment after filing for divorce from their husbands.
Audrey, a mother of five who has recently left the Amish community, is suing her ex-husband Mike after she learns he sexually abused her three daughters.
After filing for divorce, her eldest daughter, Marlena, admitted that Mike sexually abused her between the ages of 10 and 16. Cinema †
Dorthea made up a similar story of abuse, and Audrey’s youngest daughter, Angie, later revealed that Mike had repeatedly raped her, beginning when she was five.
Sins of the Amish tells the story of the family’s struggle to get justice after Mike filed an appeal. Audrey’s lawyers advised her to sign the case instead of taking it to court.
Audrey’s ex-husband was sentenced to 5-10 years in prison and 10 more years of probation in November 2021, according to the deal he made.
Source: Daily Mail
