Misty wrote her memoir to raise awareness about child abuse and sexual assault cover up among the Amish and other strict religious groups. Misty Griffin is the author of her best selling memoir Tears of the Silenced. After reporting the bishop, I left the Amish and found myself plummeted into a strange modern world with only a second-grade education and no ID or social security card." I knew I had to get help, and one freezing morning in early March, I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. As Misty recalls, "Amish sexual abusers are only shunned by the church for six weeks, a punishment that never seems to work.
Devastated to again find herself in a world of fear, cruelty, and abuse, Misty was sexually assaulted by the bishop. When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community. No rescue would ever come since the few people who knew they existed did not care.
Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door to make sure the young girls were too terrified to try to escape. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch and subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. When Misty Griffin was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. A gripping true story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist.
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