Amish school gunman confessed to abusive past

The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolroom confided to his wife during the siege that he sexually abused two relatives 20 years ago.

Amish school gunman confessed to abusive past

The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolroom confided to his wife during the siege that he sexually abused two relatives 20 years ago.

Investigators in Pennsylvania also said that Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, plotted his takeover of the school for nearly a week and that the items he brought suggest he may have been planning to sexually assault the Amish girls before police closed in.

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