Amish guilty of hair attacks in Ohio

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Amish guilty of hair attacks in Ohio

Sixteen Amish men and women convicted of hate crimes including forcibly cutting off sect members’ beards and hairSixteen Amish men and women have been convicted of hate crimes including forcibly cutting off fellow sect members’ beards and hair in a religious dispute that offered a rare and sometimes lurid glimpse into the closed and usually self-regulating community of believers. A federal jury found Samuel Mullet guilty of orchestrating the cuttings of Amish men’s beards and women’s hair last autumn in attacks that terrorized the normally peaceful religious settlements in eastern Ohio.