law enforcement weigh in on the amish restoration team

Picking back up where we left off in the last recording, I sat down with a law enforcement officer out of Ohio to hear his perspective on The Amish Restoration Team.

You’ll hear his real-time reactions to the answers the RT has been giving Amish women within their communities—and what that actually looks like from the outside looking in.

Law enforcement often gets a bad reputation in these conversations, accused of not doing enough to address abuse. But the question we have to ask is… how much can they do if the barriers put in place by the church prevent them from even knowing what’s happening?

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