Sexual abuse in the Amish School?

Gunman at Amish School May Have Planned Sexual Abuse

The man who seized control of a one-room Amish school on Monday apparently planned an extended stay and might have planned to sexually abuse the young girls he captured, Pennsylvania State Police said today.

In a telephone call to his wife from the school in Lancaster County, Charles Carl Roberts IV said he had molested two young relatives 20 years ago and dreamed of doing so again, the police said.
The state police commissioner, Col. Jeffrey B. Miller, said the escape of a schoolteacher and the quick response of the police may have foiled the plans of the gunman, who had arrived at the school with restraining devices as well as weapons. When the police arrived, he began the shooting that ended up taking the lives of five girls between the ages of 7 and 13.
Police today released the names of the children who have died. They are Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Anna Mae Stolzfus, 12; Marian Fisher, 13; Mary Liz Miller, 8, and her sister Lena Miller, 7. Police said seven of the 10 families with children in the school have been affected by the shootings.
Gov. Edward Rendell said flags would fly at half staff in the state capital, Harrisburg, and in Lancaster County until after the funeral of the children.
Five more girls were wounded Monday, and some remained in critical or serious condition this afternoon. Police did not reveal the names of the wounded girls, but said one of them is 6 years old, two are 8, one is 11 and the last is 13. They said one child wounded in the shoulder is expected to make a full recovery, but said the outlook for the others is less clear.
All but one of the girls died Monday; the other died early today.