The Amish of Lancaster County, Pa., spiritual siblings of the Old Order Mennonites of Ontario's Waterloo County, have managed to live with intrusion and insult for decades-the kind of taunting against which detective John Book (played by Harrison Ford) struck back in the 1985 Hollywood film Witness. But this assault-the binding and execution of little girls at school-is a violation so deep that it will test their faith to the point that some will, privately, not survive it.
We have only begun to learn of the deep mental afflictions that drove 32-year-old Charles Roberts to murder five female children in cold blood and seriously injure others. He appears to have recognized a …
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