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07.11.09Mennonite community “shocked” over rapes in Bolivia?The Winnipeg Sun article, “10 years of rapes?” quotes “Hans Warner, an assistant professor of history at the University of Winnipeg and an expert in Mennonite history” as saying “people are just shocked” and that “he has never heard of anything like this occurring in a Mennonite community before,” and also quotes “Rick Fast, director of communications with the Mennonite Central Committee Canada in Winnipeg” saying that “he has not heard much more about the incident than what has been reported in the media and declined to comment on it.” But, according to this article, Hans Schroeder, who is the director ...
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03.16.09Incest and RapeBased on the evidence of my experience inside the Mennonite community, if Josef Fritzl were a member of the Mennonite community and I were his Mennonite daughter, Continue Reading...
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12.16.08Statement of Anne Klassen, Dec. 16, 2008My maiden name is Anne Klassen. I was raised in a Mennonite Brethren family in Virgil, a predominantly Mennonite town in southern Ontario, just outside of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Every aspect of my life has been dominated and controlled by the attitudes and beliefs of the Mennonite Brethren Church. Today, I am breaking my silence: Throughout my childhood, I was sexually molested, assaulted, sodomized, and raped, hundreds of times, by my father - in the Mennonite kingdom of peace. Mennonites claim that they would never violate their fellow human beings; it would be against their nature. Their founder, Menno Simons, claimed that, "if possible, (Mennonites) would ...
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