The astonishing thing is that this girl survives… and finally, much later and far away, even thrives. 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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