<p>Members of Pennsylvania’s Amish and Mennonite communities are coming to terms with <a href="https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/coverings/mennonite-amish-sexual-abuse-forgiveness-in-their-communities/">a widespread sexual abuse crisis</a> that is at odds with their separatist cultures and commitment to unconditional forgiveness. Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reporters Shelly Bradbury and Stephanie Strasburg how abuse in those communities has gone unchecked and why it’s been covered up until now.</p>

Members of Pennsylvania’s Amish and Mennonite communities are coming to terms with a widespread sexual abuse crisis that is at odds with their separatist cultures and commitment to unconditional forgiveness. Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reporters Shelly Bradbury and Stephanie Strasburg how abuse in those communities has gone unchecked and why it’s been covered up until now.

<p>Members of Pennsylvania’s Amish and Mennonite communities are coming to terms with <a href="https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/coverings/mennonite-amish-sexual-abuse-forgiveness-in-their-communities/" rel="noopener noreferrer">a widespread sexual abuse crisis</a> that is at odds with their separatist cultures and commitment to unconditional forgiveness. Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reporters&nbsp;Shelly Bradbury and Stephanie Strasburg how abuse in those communities has gone unchecked and why it’s been covered up until now.</p>

Uncovering abuse in Pa.’s Amish, Mennonite communities

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