Sunday, October 10, 2021

The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They’re Hiding a Horrifying Secret

 
 
A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.
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The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They're Hiding a Horrifying Secret
 
The memories come to her in fragments. The bed creaking late at night after one of her brothers snuck into her room and pulled her to the edge of her mattress. Her underwear shoved to the side as his body hovered over hers, one of his feet still on the floor.

Her ripped dresses, the clothespins that bent apart on her apron as another brother grabbed her at dusk by the hogpen after they finished feeding the pigs. Sometimes she'd pry herself free and sprint toward the house, but "they were bigger and stronger," she says. They usually got what they wanted.

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