MY AMISH INCEST NIGHTMARE!
Child rape victim claims church creates predator’s paradise
THE ultra-religious Amish — who spurn modern life — are being ripped apart by a shocking incest scandal that accuses their community of encouraging fathers and brothers to bed girls as young as 11 years old!
The shameful charges are detailed in an explosive Peacock TV documentary — Sins of the Amish — exposing the horrors four women from different Amish communities say they were forced to endure as children.
“It’s a predator’s paradise,” says Mary Byler, who was raised in a remote Amish community in Wisconsin.
She displayed what she claims is a church-sponsored pamphlet given to female children titled To the Girl of Eleven that insists incest is normal! Mary also says the publication blames young girls for being raped by fathers and brothers.
According to the pamphlet, the male sex drive “can become a powerful driving force” so girls are urged “to not make it harder on him” with tempting behavior or clingy clothes.
“Your brother innocently coming upon you and seeing your partly uncovered body may suddenly have strong sexual desires aroused within him,” says the pamphlet.
“His intentions were not bad, but he suddenly finds himself a victim of your carelessness in the lust of his own body.”
Mary says she was sexually abused by her
dad and brothers — who she named Johnny, Eli and David — during her childhood in the patriarchal faith, which forbids the use of modern inventions like cars, electrical equipment, buttons, zippers and even some medicines.
Mary says, “My first perpetrator was my biological father. I was five.”
The pamphlet warns girls to keep their bedroom doors locked, but Mary says one of her brothers “would take off the hinges. I remember him grabbing me and then I remember instantly splitting
into two people. Like I wasn’t even there. When I came back, the door was closing, and he was gone.”
Her oldest brother, Johnny, confessed to raping her 200 times, but was sentenced to only a year in jail plus work release and probation, Mary claims. Eli and David pleaded guilty.
At Johnny’s sentencing hearing, mobs of Amish were outside the courthouse to condemn her for talking.
Mary says she fled her home when a brother began assaulting her little sister, who was told by their mom not to say a word.
“It clicked, that if I don’t do anything, my sister is gonna grow up and have the exact same hell,” she says.