We were not even allowed go to school.At the age of 18 we were adopted into an Amish community.I was devastated to once again find myself in a world of fear, animal cruelty and sexual abuse.At night I often cried myself to sleep.I knew I could never leave the Amish, any baptized church member who left would certainly go to hell.There was no escape.One fateful morning I was sexually assaulted by a bishop, I knew that contacting the authorities was forbidden.I was terrified and feared for my life.Should I take the outsiders advice and go to a battered woman's shelter? Could I gather the courage to contact the police?After a series of terrifying events I found myself plunged into a strange modern world with no friends, no ID and only a second grade education but that didn't hold me back. Everyday was an endless cycle of sexual abuse, slavery and torture. My sister and I were subjected to some of the most severe forms of child abuse and kept in almost total isolation on a mountain ranch. Based on a former Amish woman's terrifying and courageous true life story.When I was six years old my family started dressing and living like the Amish.
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