Amish Couple Popped For Selling Teen Daughter To Sex Offender

What are these people thinking????

Pennsylvania Parents Popped For Selling Daughter And Moving Minors In With Alleged Sex Offender

Police believe an Amish couple in Pennsylvania sold their daughter to 51 year-old Lee Kaplan when she was 14. Now at 18, she’s birthed two of his children and her parents and siblings all live with the guy. Apparently Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus fell on hard times and they “thought it was legal”. The couple’s ignorance to child  abuse and law didn’t stop them from getting busted by police this week. Peep the rest of the story via CBS.

Police have told Eyewitness News that they have arrested Lee Kaplan, 51, after officials say that Kaplan fathered two children with an 18-year-old woman living in his home.

Officials say that at least 11 other females, ranging from 6-months-old to 18-years-old, were found in the home between Thursday night and Friday morning.

Kaplan was taken into custody on the 400 block of Old Street Road in Feasterville after police received an anonymous complaint about child abuse in the house.

One of the children that Kaplan allegedly fathered is 3-years-old and the other is an infant, according to police. Authorities say that the 18-year-old found in the home may have been presented to Kaplan years ago as some sort of payment. They add that she was allegedly sexually assaulted by Kaplan for several years.

It is unknown if any of the other children were subject to any abuse, officials say.

Neighbors told Eyewitness News that they complained about the home three years ago, after suspicions about things not seeming to be right.

Authorities tell Eyewitness News that they have no birth certificates for any of the females and cannot find any information about them.

Authorities add that the children found in the home appear to Amish and none are enrolled in area schools.

Police are calling this one of the most bizarre cases that they’ve investigated in recent memory.

“We believe that they’re originally from Lancaster County in the Amish community,” said Lower Southampton Township Police Lt. Ted Krimmel. “Right now we’re working on getting an expert on Amish culture to help us conduct interviews on the rest of these children.

Kaplan has been charged with sexual assault among other related charges. Police have also charged Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus, the teenage mother’s parents. Daniel is charged with criminal conspiracy, statutory sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Savilla also faces charges of endangering the welfare of a child.

Police are saying that they believe that this was some sort of business agreement between Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus and Kaplan. Police say Kaplan allegedly admitted that he acquired one of the girls from her Amish parents, and fathered two children with her

Do you think their religion will excuse this kind of negligence and abuse from any legal punishment??

Photos: Lower South Hampton Police Dept.