Tears Of The Silenced

By: Misty Griffin

When I was six years old, my family started to live and dress like the Amish. My sister and I were kept in almost total isolation on a mountain ranch and were subjected to forced labor, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. We were not allowed to go to school.

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When I was six years old, my family started to live and dress like the Amish. My sister and I were kept in almost total isolation on a mountain ranch and were subjected to forced labor, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. We were not allowed to go to school.

In my late teens, my parents feared we would escape and took us to an Amish community where we were adopted and became baptized members. I was devastated to once again find myself in a world of fear, animal cruelty and sexual abuse. Going to the police was forbidden.

A few years later I was sexually assaulted by the bishop; I knew I had to get help and one freezing morning in early March I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. When I refused to recant my police report I was excommunicated from the Amish and found myself plummeted into the strange modern world with only a second-grade education and no ID or social security card. Based on the tragic true story.

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