Community Will Destroy Amish Schoolhouse

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NICKEL MINES, Pa., Oct. 8 -- The one-room Amish schoolhouse where five young girls were shot to death and five more were wounded last week will be torn or burned down and rebuilt elsewhere, according to a member of the close-knit community.

Those students who survived the shooting rampage will probably receive lessons at home for the rest of the school year, according to Daniel Esh, who said he learned of the plans from a nephew who attended a meeting on the matter.

"It would just be asking too much of them to go back," said Esh, whose three grandnephews were inside the school when Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, stormed it.

Roberts released 15 boys and four adults before tying up and shooting the 10 girls. Roberts had come armed with a shotgun, a rifle, a handgun and a stun gun.

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