BUCKS, PA – On the second day of Lee Kaplan’s sexual-abuse trial, a girl took the stand to describe summers swimming in Kaplan’s backyard pool, learning history from documentaries, tending to the chickens, picking fruit from trees — and having sex with the man 37 years her senior beginning when she was 10 or 11.
Over two days, a parade of witnesses have described the extraordinary hold Kaplan had over the once-Amish Stoltzfus family, centered on God, education, and marriage to the underage daughters.
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