Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks
Friday, September 21, 2012
CLEVELAND -- Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious dispute that offered a rare and sometimes lurid glimpse into the closed and usually self-regulating community of believers.
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