audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - The Amish are known for their plain dress and shunning of technology. Amish women and married Amish men do not cut their hair or beards, because they consider them symbols of living a religious life. Amish believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards once they marry. Cutting it would be offensive to Amish. This is the same dissident Amish sect where leader Samuel Mullet was sentenced last month to 15 years in federal prison for his role in leading hair and beard-cutting attacks on members of other Amish communities in 2011.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - A young mother and her child look out the window at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - School House on the Mullet property. A federal jury found 66-year-old Samuel Mullet, the leader of the breakaway group, guilty of orchestrating the cuttings last fall in an attempt to shame mainstream members of his community who he believed were straying from their beliefs. His followers were found guilty of carrying out the attacks, which terrorized the normally peaceful religious settlement that aims to live simply and piously.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - A young amish boy waits for his turn milking a cow at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - NIne deer were tagged this year on the property of Samuel Mullet. One of the men said that most years they are able to get twenty or thirty between all of them. (pictured) Venison waiting to be stuffed into casings for venison bologna.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Children play during a break in their school day.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Men work on an addition to the barn at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - (R) Martin Miller leeds a pair of horses out of the barn at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - (L-R) MARTIN MILLER and CRIST MULLET talk after dinner at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - The girls gather after a dinner to talk and play at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - MARY MILLER reads a letter from Samuel Mullet during a women's meeting at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - An Amish girl walks the family carriage horse to the barn before attending the afternoon women's meeting at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - (C) FREEMAN BURKHOLDER is the only man out on bond, he faces up to 10 years in jail.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Two young Amish children wait for their mother at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Young Amish boys look at the antlers from the bucks that were tagged this year at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - EDWARD MAST gathers up some hose after pressure washing a building at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Children watch as their fathers work on an addition to the barn the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - (L) JONNY YODER looks over building plans with URA YODER at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Amish boys take turns milking a cow as part of their daily chores at the Mullet farmhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - An Amish girl gets help with her arithmetic lesson at their schoolhouse.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Bergholz, Ohio, U.S. - Women start to arrive at the Mullet farmhouse for an afternoon meeting.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. - Amish arrive at the United States Courthouse for the sentencing of Samuel Mullet and his followers.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. - Samuel Mullet supporters leave the United States Courthouse after Samuel Mullet was sentenced to 15 years.
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