Two Amish brothers in Missouri admitted having sex with their 12-year-old sister and getting her pregnant — but managed to avoid jail time because a prosecutor feared they’d “be eaten alive” in prison, according to a report.
The abuse came to light after a doctor alerted authorities that the girl was pregnant just after she turned 13 — and she said that four of her brothers, two of them also minors, had been having sex with her,
according to the Webster County Citizen.
The eldest two — Aaron Schwartz, 22, and 18-year-old brother Petie — admitted to police that they had sex with her at least half a dozen times each at home in Seymour, starting when she was only 12, officials told the paper.
The sister ended up giving birth just two weeks ago — and “one of the brothers is the father of this child,” Webster County Prosecutor Ben Berkstresser told the paper.
Full article:
https://nypost.com/2020/09/25/amish-brothers-avoid-jail-time-for-sex-with-12-year-old-sister/
So in essence, they must do community service and write an essay how to avoid that the same happens to their kids. And I am sitting here completely dumbfounded what is going on here. The United States have an insanely uptight and removed from reality penal code when it comes to teenagers and sex, but this is a case where I really cannot understand the leniency.
Also, I find the point (in the linked article) that they were harshly punished by the Amish community and that this also contributed to the lenient sentence somehow troubling. Why would this be a consideration?