Amish Man Busted for Allegedly ‘Sexting’ Explicit Pics, Video to a 12-Year-Old Girl
- Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:44pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Amish sexter Willard Yoder's mugshot
An Amish man has been detained by police after allegedly sending hundreds of sexually-explicit messages to a 12-year-old girl. A sting operation led to the arrest after the man drove his buggy (yes, horse and carriage) to a local Indiana restaurant to meet the young girl. The Smoking Gun has more:
Nabbed in an undercover sting, Willard Yoder, 21, is facing four felony counts for allegedly soliciting sex from the minor. Yoder, pictured in the mug shot at [left], is free on $20,000 bond.
In one text, Yoder told the girl that, “the proposed sex act would happen inside the buggy,” according to a Connersville Police Department report.
Initially, Yoder had “by chance” contacted the girl’s phone via text. After her parents became aware of the inappropriate communications, they took over messaging (pretending to be their daughter) and contacted authorities for assistance. Police arranged the trick restaurant meeting, where Yoder later purportedly admitted he thought he was going to have sex with the girl.
Investigators say that he cooperated when they approached. They claim, he “walked his horse and buggy around the building and tied it to a post outside.” Watch the ABC News report, below, for more:
Truly disturbing.
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Comments (94)
sgtlmj
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:25pmOur Amish around here get married off at 14 with parental consent. Yoder needs to wait a couple more years. He’s a little old to not be married though, so there must be some more issues.
Report Post »ErinLindsey
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:24pmGuess he had a good time during his rumspringa and wanted to recreate the magic.
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:56pmWhen will these idiots learn?
Report Post »Here is a basic rule of thumb.
If she says she is 18, its an underage girl. STAY AWAY
If she says she is an underage girl, it’s a cop. STAY AWAY
In general just STAY AWAY FROM underage girls. There are plenty of 20-25 YO who can and will rock your world.
Michael
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:12amTo play it safe, just visit the Cougar sites. Of course there’s always the chance that some thirteen year old girl or boy could be immitating their Mom.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:38pmNeedeth we proof, more? When man fails to uphold Gelassenheit, the soul becomes imperiled.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:20pmThis is always what happens when religious zealots try to wipe everyones mind clean from anything real, he probably has the sexual attitude of a 12 year old so he saw nothing wrong with what he was doing.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:16pmIndiana Amish, much more liberal.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:16pmJust another ape who can’t control himslef. Being Amish has no bearing on this story as far as I’m concerned.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:06pmWiener and him went to different schools together
Report Post »NetGear
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:02pmThere’s a reason those folks need to stay away from all that high-falootin technology.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:58pmIsn‘t that Michael Moore’s eighth grade picture?
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:10pmYou mean, THE Michael Moore? (Ewwww he is SSSSSSSSSSo Fat Now!)
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:53pmWell a, well, that’s all I can say is “Well.”
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:53pmAs punishment, he’ll be raising a barn single handed.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:44pmThis man is an idiot and needs to be jailed. However, I cannot help but notice that his religion was named and a picture of him was shown. The fact that he was Amish almost nails down the fact he was white and then with the picture…you know he is. If he were black his race would never be mentioned and his picture would never be shown. If he were muslim…his religion would not be mentioned. I am sick and tired of the double standard and cannnot take much more of it.
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:08pmYou, know! The discrimination’s in this article are so subtle I would never have seen what you said! Good one!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:40pmNothing new here… You can find corvettes under the hay stack and electric generators on the work sites on and off their communities. They rent drivers and vehicles to tax free contracting jobs and same with the emergency rooms where they also pay no communal taxes let alone the bill. I was surprised to find their craftsmanship is shoddy and 3rd rate anymore. Now their kids are technopervs. Thye have assimilated.
Report Post »Freedom Keeper
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:29pmHe‘ll be punished by the American government but also I can almost guaruntee you he’ll be shunned. This story shows we can’t just talk the talk, follow Amish rules. You have to keep your soul and mind clean. Even the Amish can fall. They’re not as holy as people think. Their minds wonder too.
Report Post »Michael
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:15pmThe fact that he posted these pictures on a modern, “English” device shows that he is a hypocrite and not truly Amish in his practices. No I am not Amish but neither is he. I am also frustrated that the news, including the Blaze of all things, would stress his religion. Making more fodder for the liberals to tout their idiocies He committed a crime by soliciting a 12 year old, pure and simple. His so-called faith has nothing to do with the actual crime.
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:32pmYou are making my suspicion that this is a case for a Tour-Amish.
Report Post »Reflectionography
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:47pmYou’d be surprised what percentage of amish people have cell phones and more, without the knowledge of their church leaders.
Report Post »oh_yeah
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:15pmenough once is.
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:15pmCan you imagine the outrage if the title stated this was a MUSLIM man? Everyone would be shouting that his religion had nothing to do with it. Perhaps so, perhaps not, but the same rules should apply.
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:01pmI’m guessing (hoping?) that the reason the man’s religion was mentioned was because of his use of technology, which traditional Amish avoid. The cognitive dissonance created by the juxtaposition of “cell phone” with “horse and buggy” is unexpected, and results in an interesting/humorous story.
The comment regarding Islam is bizarre. It’s always tempting to call out as hypocrites those who hold devout religious beliefs, be they Muslim, Mormon, Buddhist, etc. The fact that religious preference is NOT mentioned in the headlines of these types of reports indicates restraint among the journalistic community. After all, how many stories about rapes committed by Christians do you ever see?
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:04pmWell I hope for one, that being Amishy did not CAUSE this deviancy anymore than Mr. Weiner was caused by being a repressed Jew married to a liberated Moslemist.
Report Post »audaxrex
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:41pm@purrrplemtnmajesty – “Can you imagine the outrage if the title stated this was a MUSLIM man? Everyone would be shouting that his religion had nothing to do with it.” – in point of fact, whenever a moslem is reported here as having done something vile, EVERYBODY jumps in to say his awfulness is a reflection of his dreadful religion. You have it exactly backward.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:00pmJust a lesson of how sin knows no boundries, respects no particular faith. It is the duty of all christians to pray often so we don’t fall into snares set by the enemy of all rightousness who is known by many names. When we least expect it, when we are in a weakened state (emotionally, financially), when we think WE got it covered, that’s when we should expect to be tried the most. Never stop praying for our fellow man (or woman), stranger, friend, or family, it serves us all well.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:19pmAll have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Not just Mr. Yoder. Without a savior we are all lost. None of us, including myself, have any right to snicker.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:56pmI think he gets an automatic waiver of Obamacare, so his “treatment” will be affordable.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:56pmclop clop – clop clop – clop clop – B ANG! B ANG! B ANG! – Klipity clop, Klipity clop Klipity clop!
(Amish Drive By Sho ot ing!) …Makes about as much sense as Mr. Yoder being on the Internet and still being considered truly Amish!!
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:11pmHa ha two timer!
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:30pm“Clop-clop Clop-clop” (HaHa) Made me laugh.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:54pmHorse and buggy.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:51pmI thought the amish weren’t allowed to use technology! Looks like this guy broke at least 2 religious laws, in addition to civil laws.
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:56pmIf it were me he would be ashamished
Report Post »RED-DAWN
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:57pmI’m not sure why his religion is important?? Would it have been better if her were Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, etc? Not sure of the point in all that. Wrong is Wrong!
Report Post »Lamar The Revenger
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:06pmHe is Amish and yes he did pull a Weiner, but he looks like he’s at that age Amish young adults go into the wild world to explore, then if they choose to stay there they can or go back. (I know the term I just can’t spell it) It’s not uncommon to see young Amish men with cell phones during this time in their life. Yes, they are religiously strict in some cases, but they aren’t as technologicially impaired as “Weird Al” sang.
Report Post »Lamar The Revenger
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:09pmOh and I think they should lock him up and throw the key in the ocean. If it sounded like I was defending is actions, sorry I wasn’t.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:10pm@LAMAR, I believe the term you’re looking for is “rumspringa”.
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:32pm@Lamar Yoder is stated as being 21. Runspringa happens somewhere between the ages of 16 and 18. The fact that he‘s 21 and is living the Amish life implies he’s been baptized in the faith after deciding to remain in it. He’ll get shunned now. One more inmate my state taxes go toward housing and following his incarceration he’ll almost certainly end up on welfare. Who wants to hire a 20 something former Amish that did time for trying to have sex with a minor?
The guy is screwed. Serves him right.
Report Post »NanaLaLa
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:58amSome Amish may have Cell phones. I asked that question of an Amish friend of mine. He said that it depended on the Bishops of their particular church. Amish people may have a cell phone if they have a business. Every Amish sect is different. However, the hearts of men are all the same, “wicked and full of deceit”. The remedy is the same though for all men – Accepting the gift Jesus gave by dying for our sin and following hard after Him.
Report Post »War_Eagle
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:04amNot necessarily. We live in the heart of Amish country and have many Amish friends. Everybody knows about the “no lights, no phones, no motorcars – not a single luxury” rules, but what most people don’t see is that for every one of these rules, there are about a dozen loopholes.
For instance, you can have electric lights in the house, as long as they’re connected to a generator in the barn. You can have a phone, just not in the house. You can’t have a car, but you can borrow somebody else’s (most Amish don’t do this, though, because it would require them to get a drivers’ liscence.)
When you drive past an Amish farm. you’ll see a little house by the side of the road that looks like an outhouse. It isn’t an outhouse. It’s where they keep their telephone. Seriously.
We have some Amish friends who own a grocery store. At home, they’re not allowed to have any of the “luxuries” we consider essential to our daily living. But at the store, they have all the lights, computers, etc, that any other store does.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:48pmDoes it matter that the man is “Amish”? Evidently, it does to some.
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:55pmHe should burn just like a christian or a mormon
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:24pmLike a Christian or a Mormon? You mean, like ANYONE or was that a specific attack on Christians and Mormons?
Report Post »lemmings4obama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:27pmhaha, i think it’s funny cuz jail will be like Las Vegas to him. How do you punish an amish person? Make them watch tv? This guy needs the eyelid clips from A Clockwork Orange and sit him down to watch some classics like Sanford and Son or Leave it to Beaver. hahahahaha
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:30pmThat is true – If he IS an Amishalic, then incarceration will RUIN his future with the rest of the Amishians.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:48pmBest to let the Amish take care of the ridicule on this one. I am sure he will be punished for his misdeeds in court.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:54pmThe creep will be appointed a Professor @ Columbia
Report Post »:D
Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:54pmYou cannot be trusted when those electronic people with their technilogigal skills attack everywhere too
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:55pmWtf? Disgusting.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:16pmHe can’t be a true Amish, what with having a cell phone. Sounds like this guy was talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Let the courts punish him, let the Amish kick him out of their community.
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:18pmhe looked like Ed Henry just now
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:23pmSince when do the Amish have cell phones?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:27pm.
Report Post »Get that whip and the handcuffs, then meet me in the Buggy LMAO……..
Kerby Clark
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:28pmI for one doubt this is a devout Amish man, he is probably acting Amishy for tourist purposes and lives in Philly.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:32pmHe will be shunned in his community … I would guess that he will be our problem in the end.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:59pmhis account was hacked
Report Post »Hula Calhoun
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:59pmAs well as punishment via courts, he will be shunned in his community. And what was he doing with a device that does texting? Any electronic device is forbidden, and he would have had to have a contract of some kind for phone service (some Amish communities do have a single phone for emergencies, but it is a community phone and only for emergencies)
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:02pmIf this wasn’t so disgusting it would actually be funny…..
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:18pmLadies and gentelman…welcome your next New York congressman!!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:23pmSomebody’s probably already thought to post this … but I’m pretty sure it will never get old.
“Weird” Al Yankovic – Amish Paradise
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
stifroc
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:40pmAmish Paradise?
“May have churned butter once or twice livin in an amish paradise”
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 9:08pmA few things in response to many of the posts here.
It is unlikely he is Amish in Connersville. More likely he is Mennonite or German Baptist.
Even the Old Country Amish have cell phones to varying extents Usually reserved for emergencies.
His Punishment within his community will likely being a Shunning by his brethren
Horse and buggy is a common sight here in Indiana. I go to church with the German Baptist and am usually the only automobile there. They are the most respectful and honorable and polite People I know and even there you find deviants. Peace.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 9:57pm@Doc
Thanks for that!8^)
Report Post »Lawlcat001
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:58amColumbia Professor
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:20amUm, NO…
We don’t “let the Amish take care of this one”.
That would be the same as allowing sharia law.
We have ONE court system, and, the Amish accept that court system, to the best of my knowledge.
Arrest, charge, try, convict, punish, DONE
Report Post »SuttonShimai
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 3:43pmHula, you don’t need a contract to get a cell phone. Just buy a TracFone or Net10 phone from Wal-Mart. I have one and I can text on it, too. I don’t need any of that other garbage.
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