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They protested at a funeral here, a bunch of bikers ran them off...
They protested at a funeral here, a bunch of bikers ran them off...
Amish attend killer's funeral to forgive
09oct06
GEORGETOWN, Pennsylvania: Dozens of Amish neighbours came out to mourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a maniacal rampage.
Charles Carl Roberts, 32, was buried at the weekend in his wife's family plot behind a small Methodist church, a few kilometres from the Amish schoolhouse he stormed last Monday.
His wife, Marie, and their three small children looked on as Roberts was buried beside the grave, marked with a pink heart, of the infant daughter whose death nine years ago apparently haunted him, said Bruce Porter, a fire department chaplain from Colorado who attended.
About half of perhaps 75 mourners on hand were Amish.
"It's the love, the forgiveness, the heartfelt forgiveness they have toward the family. I broke down and cried seeing it displayed," Mr Porter said.
He said Marie Roberts was also touched. "She was absolutely deeply moved, by just the love shown."
In suicide notes and last calls to his wife, Roberts said he was tormented by memories of molesting two young relatives 20 years ago, and that he never recovered from the death of his first child, Elise, who died 20 minutes after she was born. His hatred towards God started at that moment, he wrote.
Police initially thought Roberts chose his victims at random, but evidence is mounting that he deliberately targeted the Amish schoolgirls.
"I'm sure he knew the girls," said Stephen Sipos, who lives across the road from the Roberts family. "The milk drivers were always joking around with the (Amish) kids."
Among the 10 girls Roberts seized in a planned assault a few hours after he finished work on Monday was Marian Fisher, 13, and her sister Barbie, 11, both of whom offered to die in exchange for the lives of the others. A third Fisher sister escaped.
Neighbours confirmed the Fisher farm was a regular stop on Roberts's milk route.
Police and criminal psychologists agree Roberts had a mass murderer's profile that does not yet make sense. Police have investigated his claims to have abused two of his relatives when they were four or five years old, and the women do not remember a thing; nor does any relative believe such abuse occurred.
Psychiatrists acknowledge that the death of his baby may have filled him with anger, but most consider it unlikely he would explode nine years later without exhibiting any sign of stress.
His cousin Ben Hildebrand insisted: "There was not a drop of anger in him." His wife said in a statement: "The man who did this is not the man I married."
Some specialists speculated that Roberts may have been molested himself, and that he may have developed fantasies about molesting the Amish girls.
The Sunday Times, MCT, AP
Im with Erich on this. You have to cherish the time you have with your children. I know I dont have kids yet, but when me and my wife do have children finally they are going to be my whole world.