Posts Tagged ‘Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’
Amish Man Sentenced to 38-76 Years in Prison for Child Sexual Abuse
On Friday David and I attended the sentencing of David Smucker in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, along with several other victim advocates. So often in court cases involving perpetrators among the Plain People, community members will show up in support of the perpetrator, leaving the victims feeling alone. We wanted to ensure this didn’t happen. This was…
Read MoreUpdate on the Case of Jeriah Mast
In my last blog post, I posed this question on the case of Jeriah Mast: Will he be prosecuted in the full extent of the law, or will the people around him aid in him taking a slick detour around the laws most people need to abide by? The latest development suggests that the latter…
Read MoreAmish Conference 2019: Health and Well-Being in Amish Society
It has been ever so long since I’ve written here, and ever so much has happened in the Amish world as well as my own. The two came together this past weekend when I attended the conference at Elizabethtown College called Health and Well-Being in Amish Society. You can see the full schedule of speakers…
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