Emma Gingerich, The-Sun.com, UK, 2022; Peacock, Sins of the Amish; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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A shocking new documentary recently showcased how 11-year-old girls in the Amish community were given "incest guides" and told it was their fault if they got raped.
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The Amish are a tight-knit and secretive group, and they don’t like to deal with authorities, so it’s almost impossible to know what’s really going on inside.
But Emma Gingerich previously revealed the Amish community hide "a lot of bad things" - including incest and criminal behavior.
She said they simply "sweep it under the rug" after the culprits are forced to confess their sins at church.
Emma told The Sun Online: "I know the Amish drink; there is a drinking problem; some of them make their own wine or moonshine.
"There's a lot of sexual abuse -- which you wouldn't see from the outside. It's been going on for a very long time.
"It's a problem for children and women. Kids are sexually abused. For a long time, nobody did anything about it.
"If it does happen in the Amish community, they hide it so well.
"But now [that] there are more people leaving, they are starting to speak out, and they are starting to get law enforcement involved. There's more awareness now.
"I didn't experience it from what I can remember. I didn't know anybody had experienced it until after I left: A lot of women have come forward to me about it after they left.
"They lived in the same place as me. I was wondering, 'How could I not notice?' But they hide it so well." More
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