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cali

(114,904 posts)
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:02 PM Jun 2016

Police: PA Couple Gave 14 yr old daughter to man as thanks

A Pennsylvania couple is accused of child endangerment after police said they gave away their 14-year-old daughter to a man who helped them financially. The friend has been charged with sexually assaulting the teen, who had two children with him.

Officials acting on a tip Thursday found 51-year-old Lee Kaplan at his Feasterville home, along with 12 girls ranging in age from six months to 18 years.

According to an affidavit, the girl's father, Daniel Stoltzfus, told an officer he gave his daughter to Kaplan after he helped the family out of financial ruin. He told police he thought it was legal after he did some research online.

Kaplan faces a number of charges including statutory sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault. Daniel Stoltzfus is charged with conspiracy of statutory sexual assault and children endangerment. His wife, Savilla Stoltzfus, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

All three are being held on $1 million bail. No lawyer information was listed in court documents.

The girl, now 18, told police she and Kaplan have a 3-year-old and a six-month-old.

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read:http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-pennsylvania-ouple-gave-daughter-man-39948043

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Police: PA Couple Gave 14 yr old daughter to man as thanks (Original Post) cali Jun 2016 OP
Amish. The couple is Amish. mnhtnbb Jun 2016 #1
and? What on earth makes you think that matter? cali Jun 2016 #2
Amish women don't exactly have equal rights in their society. mnhtnbb Jun 2016 #3
because the story sounds inexplicable maxsolomon Jun 2016 #4
Ugh Liberal_in_LA Jun 2016 #5
Weird story. Demit Jun 2016 #6
My thought exactly Freddie Jun 2016 #8
The Amish use technology in their businesses and to deal with the "English" REP Jun 2016 #9
The father had a farm. Demit Jun 2016 #11
wtf uponit7771 Jun 2016 #7
..... along with 12 girls ranging in age from six months to 18 years underahedgerow Jun 2016 #10
Daniel & Savilla Stoltzfus have at least 11 children & were living with the guy. countryjake Jun 2016 #14
Sick smirkymonkey Jun 2016 #12
Check out this article from 2009, they haven't been a part of actual Amish life... countryjake Jun 2016 #13

mnhtnbb

(31,319 posts)
3. Amish women don't exactly have equal rights in their society.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:17 PM
Jun 2016

This doesn't surprise me in the least that an Amish father would pull something like this.

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
4. because the story sounds inexplicable
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:20 PM
Jun 2016

until you know that detail. it only makes sense within a limited-information, patriarchal, closed society.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
6. Weird story.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:40 PM
Jun 2016

Feasterville is fairly distant from Amish country. In miles and culturally. Wonder how these folks encountered one another in the first place? And the Amish dad was going online? The Amish don't even use zippers.

REP

(21,691 posts)
9. The Amish use technology in their businesses and to deal with the "English"
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 10:19 PM
Jun 2016

They won't use it in their homes, but even old order Amish will use computers and cell phones in their businesses. The couple who are the parents of at least one of the children is from Lancaster County.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
11. The father had a farm.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 05:23 AM
Jun 2016

I suppose doing online research to determine the legality of giving your daughter away in thanks for financial aid is "business," but it's a bit of a stretch.

underahedgerow

(1,232 posts)
10. ..... along with 12 girls ranging in age from six months to 18 years
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 11:18 PM
Jun 2016

Soooo the guy had a harem or what? Maybe he was doing a whole Mormon thing there, and committing welfare and social services fraud too.

I've never heard of the Amish 'giving' their daughters away.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
14. Daniel & Savilla Stoltzfus have at least 11 children & were living with the guy.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 07:26 AM
Jun 2016

The couple is claiming that all of the kids, except for the two youngest, are theirs.

This will be one weird and troubling investigation, for sure.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
13. Check out this article from 2009, they haven't been a part of actual Amish life...
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 07:13 AM
Jun 2016

for quite a while.

Ex-Amishman: Church Ruined Me by BRIAN WALLACE Staff Writer for Lancaster Online ~ Mar 4, 2009
Files federal lawsuit

http://lancasteronline.com/news/ex-amishman-church-ruined-me/article_005d9901-3e8f-5d7e-8a77-e9a52b59b26b.html


Daniel Stoltzfus, shown at his Kirkwood metal fabrication business, has sued the Amish church and two church-related charities, alleging they conspired to drive him out of business and seize his home after he was shunned by the church. (Deb Grove/Intelligencer Journal)


A former member of the Amish church has sued the church, its charitable organizations and church officials, claiming they conspired to ruin his business and seize his home when he did not follow church teachings.

Daniel Stoltzfus of Kirkwood claims he was shunned by the church after Amish members learned he was a born-again Christian who did business with a Jewish man.

In a suit filed Feb. 4 in federal court in Philadelphia, Stoltzfus and his wife, Savilla Stoltzfus, accuse the church of "tortuously interfering with and shutting down" his business and accusing him of keeping his wife against her will and abusing the couple's children.

The suit also accuses Amish church officials of conspiring to purchase the Stoltzfus' property at a sheriff's sale at a fraction of its value.

Though the home was sold at a sheriff's sale, the Stoltzfuses and their 11 children continue to live at the Kirkwood property because they have not been evicted.

The couple is seeking $1.1 million in damages and the return of their former property, along with other unspecified damages.



In that article, it says that they both left the Amish church in 2003, and from other articles relating to this current case of giving their daughter away to be raped, in his mug shot, again the father has a bushy mustache and no Amish man has ever been allowed to grow hair above their lip. I can't be certain if it's the same Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus, but comparing the two pics, it sure looks him.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3647657/Three-held-Pennsylvania-rape-case-teen-Amish-girl-gifted-man.html
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