by The Associated Press
November 11, 2011
An elderly Amish man was attacked by his own son, who a sheriff said cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and upset but wouldn't press charges.
"I'm frustrated with it. I'm upset with it. And, here again, the man doesn't want to file charges because of his belief," Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said Friday.
Abdalla warned the son in advance that he didn't want trouble and parked nearby during the father-son reunion, the first in several years.
The sheriff said the elderly man was attacked Wednesday while visiting his son in the breakaway Amish community that's home to five suspects charged in an earlier beard-cutting attack. The son, whose father-in-law is the group's leader, wasn't among those charged earlier, Abdalla said.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/11/142248616/son-cuts-mans-beard-in-latest-amish-attack?ft=1&f=1016:wtf:
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