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Amish forgiveness has embraced the mother of a man who murdered five little girls and injured 5 others.
He then killed himself.
A single word in black cursive font hangs above a large double pane window in Terri Roberts’ sun room in Pennsylvania, US. It says, “Forgiven.”
The word – and the room itself, a gift built by her Amish neighbours just months after the unimaginable occurred – is a daily reminder of all that she’s lost and all that she’s gained these last 10 years.
The simple, quiet rural life she knew shattered on October 2, 2006, when her oldest son, Charles Carl Roberts IV, walked into a one-room Nickle Mines Amish schoolhouse on a clear, unseasonably warm Monday morning.
The 32-year-old husband and father of three young children ordered the boys and adults to leave, tied up 10 little girls between the ages of 6 and 13, and shot them, killing five and injuring the others, before killing himself. Read more
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