![]() I’d never before read an insider’s view of this branch of Christianity, and was struck by similarities with Nazi Germany – for example the behavioral rules everybody has to follow are called ‘Ordnung,’ and extend to the exact width of hems on the regulation garments. ![]() Nobody could imagine the quaint Amish behaving badly. The author did courageously several times try to get the police involved – but her pleas were shrugged off. ![]() The Amish community she was sent to as a teen seemed at first to be a refuge, but soon it became clear that men could do what they liked with women and children, and the religion then obliged everybody to ‘forgive’ them – and certainly never to call the cops. Tears of the Silenced: An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survivalįrom an abusive, indeed psychotic, redneck family in eastern Washington to a strict Amish community in Minnesota – this child suffers what no child should ever have to endure – hard labor, beatings, brainwashing, sexual depravation. Madhuri reviews Misty Griffin’s book subtitled, An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival. ![]()
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