Prosecutors have asked a judge to lock up the remaining nine defendants still free following their convictions in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio.
Seven other defendants have been jailed without bond since their arrests.
The defendants are loyal to the man shown here, Sam Mullet Sr. The 66-year-old leader of a breakaway Amish group, was found guilty last week of orchestrating hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish last fall.
The government said the cuttings were an attempt to shame members of Mullet's community who he believed were straying from their beliefs.
-- The Associated Press.
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