News about Joe Diffie

I left the Amish at 17 - here's the culture shocks I experienced after growing up with sctrict rules

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 9, 2024
Naomi Swartzentruber , 43, was raised in one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of the Amish, known as the Swartzentrubers, which meant that she had to follow immensely strict rules regarding everything from the way she dressed to who she could talk to. The Arizona-based mom-of-one decided to leave the community behind at the age of 17 after she began rebelling against the restrictions of the Amish and became desperate to leave the settlement and make a name for herself in the outside world. She moved in with a man twice her age and left the Amish world behind. Having now been out of the strict world for nearly 30 years, Naomi has detailed the hardships of growing up Amish and the years of abuse she endured after she left.

After reportedly holding family hostage, a Grammy-winning engineer was killed by cops in Nashville

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 7, 2023
Capps had awakened his 60-year-old wife Tara Solomon and 23-year-old grandchild at 3 a.m. and then held them at gunpoint in the family room of the house on Summit Run Place in Hermitage, Tennessee. During a critical incident press briefing on Thursday, Don Aaron refused to let them leave and threatened them multiple times, telling them that if they'called someone, he would kill them and any police that appeared at the house.' Capps was able to get home about dawn after she fell asleep. They were taken to the Hermitage Police Department and obtained a police report. Capps was arrested on aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping warrants at the time of his death.