No Jail Time for Amish Brothers Convicted of Rape

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A judge sentenced Aaron and Petie Schwartz, two Amish brothers from Seymour, Missouri, to five years of probation and 100 hours of community service, on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020.

Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Berkstresser said:
In the end, this wasn’t a case of a parent and child, where a parent in a position of authority sexually abused or exploited their child… And I made the decision not to send them to the DOC, to suspend the sentences. These two young men would’ve been eaten alive in the state prison system.

The convicted young men are 22 and 18. Their sisters were 12 and 13. They were repeatedly raped and the 13 year old impregnated. She has given birth to the child.

According to online court records, both originally charged with six felony counts of statutory rape or attempted rape.


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