Amish escapes incest for freedom to date

Emma Gingerich, Megyn Kelly, 7/18/18.; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I escaped my incestuous Amish family when I was 18. I didn't know what sex was (The Sun)

MY AMISH ESCAPE

Imogen Braddick, The Sun, June 2, 2022; Wisdom Quarterly

I was too young to know better with no education

I escaped my incestuous Amish family when I was 18. I barely spoke English, and I didn’t know what sex was.

A MOM who was raised Amish has revealed how women and kids were subjected to horrific sexual abuse and "shunned" from their families if they ever broke the rules. When 18-year-old Emma Gingerich, now 36, fled the only life she had ever known, she only had a 9th grade education, barely spoke English, and had no idea what sex was. [Puritanical] America’s secretive Amish shun technology in favor of hard work, family, and devotion to their [super conservative] Christian faith. Emma, who is now married with a baby girl, slipped out the door on one cold January afternoon in 2006 armed with a mobile phone and the number of an ex-Amish woman who could help her. She left a note for her parents which said: "The time has come for me to leave, I am not happy here anymore. I am sorry to do this to you but I need to try a different life." More: the-sun.com

Woman who escaped Amish community opens up to Megyn Kelly

(Megyn Kelly/TODAY) Beautiful and independent-minded Emma Gingerich grew up in a strict Amish community of Schwartzentruber in Ohio. As one of 13 siblings, Emma attended school only up until age 14 and soon decided that she didn’t want to be a part of the Amish community. As the author of the book Runaway Amish Girl, she tells Megyn Kelly how she made her “great escape” and how she's been adapting to the outside world or Devil's Playground, as it's known to the wholesome Amish.

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