What is happening to this Amish girl after she was raped by her brothers?

Also adding that the Amish community values forgiveness very strongly over punishment. Community leaders would be pressuring this girl to forgive her brothers and then report that she’s forgiven them to the authorities and then tidily sweep everything under the rug.

Surely to god she'd be taken into care? She can't still be there, with the family, can she? Poor, poor child

I don’t know anything about the US foster system or when the state takes the child away.

But taking an Amish child into care would probably present difficulties due to cultural differences. They would not be cooperating with authorities and instead continue to make empty promises to handle the matter through their local leadership.

She may not speak English well, and may not be familiar with ‘English’ customs and lifestyles. By now, she would be out of school as they usually leave around 13.

Honestly I’d fear for her living as an unwed mother in that community. But the reality is she’d also have great difficulty living outside her community as well. Hopefully she could have a real choice about her own future.

Her parents should be charged as well.

Though in this case, it would be very hard to envisage a situation which could be worse for this girl than being left with her birth family.

Is IICSA, the child abuse inquiry, looking into the Amish organisation too? They collected a lot of good work on sexual abuse and rape within the Catholic church and Jehovah's Witnesses and various religious orgs.

This is horrific. I'm also surprised it actually became public knowledge, I imagine there are many similar situations that haven't.

Shocking that they were spared jail. As always I expect the young girl and her child will suffer most within the community for this.

Horrifying all the shame is pushed onto the woman and the men are protected
Just horrifying the Amish community cover it all up to try and protect their reputation
it is the Amish community who deserves shame and vilification

Surely to god she'd be taken into care? She can't still be there, with the family, can she? Poor, poor child.

I fear that it is the girl and her child who will be shunned..... Poor thing.

Given how this community deals with transgressors by shunning, I don’t think for a minute their lives are going to be a bed of roses. At least, I sincerely hope not

From what I've seen of patriarchal religions in action, I fear the only one who will be shunned is the 13 year old victim.

Also, what the fuck was that judge smoking? A non-custodial sentence because the poor little defenceless darlings might have a rough time in prison? They raped their sister, who was only a child, for fuck's sake.

The child has given birth to her baby now. Not only was she raped by the two brothers charged with this offence there were two other brothers who were not charged due to their age.

Given how this community deals with transgressors by shunning, I don’t think for a minute their lives are going to be a bed of roses. At least, I sincerely hope not

Prosecutor was wrong to let the community handle this. This is why violence against women is so common in closed communities like the Amish.

Native American communities have similar problems because of tribal autonomy.

Always feel sorry for the women and girls trapped in this system.

I’m surprised this even got out to the wider community, very often they do not involve ‘the English’ in their affairs. From the article it was a doctor that reported it, so the family was probably against cooperating with the authorities.

Domestic violence is widespread in the Amish community and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that sexual abuse is too.

That poor, poor girl. What a revolting, woman oppressing group of people these Amish are.