More members of an Ohio Amish community, convicted of hate crimes in hair and beard cutting attacks

(12 Apr 2013) HEADLINE: Amish 'not sure what to expect' in jail
CAPTION: More members of an Ohio Amish community, convicted of hate crimes in hair and beard cutting attacks are entering federal prison. Their departure will leave nearly three dozen children without one or both parents. (April 12)
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LOCATION - DATE : BERGHOLZ , OHIO - APRIL 9, 2013
1. Wideshot horse and buggy
2. Wideshot school house
3. Wideshot buggies
4. Wideshot Amish families in school house
5. Medium shot Amish girl singing
6. Tight shot 2 Amish girls singing
7. Wide shot Amish classroom
8. Soundbite: Freeman Burkholder/convicted in beard-cutting attack: " If I'd have know this would happen I wouldn't have been there. "I figured they'd take a message out of it." To leave us alone and be good parents." Yeah. I wish I wouldn't have done it now.It didn't help them any.We didn't get any.It don't look like any good comes out of it, but it might, I don't know." I really don't know what to expect. I've never been inside of a jail."
9. Wide shot horse and buggy
10. Tight shot wagon wheel
11. Wide shot buggy pulls in front of school house
12. SoundbIte: Anna Miller/convicted in beard-cutting attack: " I don't know what to expect, how to feel, what to expect from a plane ride. I never dreamed I'd get a plane ride." "Once we start talking about mom's going to jail, they say no , mom doesn't have to go to jail. They don't want mom to go to jail."
13. SoundbIte: Freeman Burkholder/Convicted in beard-cutting attack: "we can make it as happy as the circumstances will allow, but it ain't right 'til everybody's here."
14. Medium shot amish girls on seesaw.
15. SoundbIte: Martha Mullet/Community Elder: " All the other families can go on with their lives. And they keep tearing us all apart.They just want to tear our community apart. And all we'd like to do is have some peace and be left alone so we can live our life"
16. Wide shot of buggy pulling away.
Storyline:
Bare feet and work boots shuffle on the wooden floor of the Amish schoolhouse as the children settle into tight rows of scuffed metal desks across the room from their parents _ the men on one set of benches, women on another, some cradling younger children.
They have gathered to celebrate the end of school, but no one claps or cheers. The only voices raised are those of the students as they begin singing, the melodies rising and dipping like the surrounding hills. A warm breeze carries the religious lyrics, mostly in German, through open windows and over the fields where families will mingle afterward.
The ceremony is typically in late April, but this school year was cut short to allow some youngsters a few more days of family time before their parents leave for federal prison.
"It's a happy day on the outside, but not on the inside. On the inside, a lot of times we're crying, but we have to keep our spirits up for the children's sake," said Martha Mullet.
Her husband, Sam Mullet Sr., is the group's leader and is among nine men already behind bars on hate crime convictions for hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish. He was sentenced to 15 years, the longest term of the 16 defendants.
Seven aren't yet in prison. Come Friday, five of them _ four women and one more man _ from this tight-knit group in rural eastern Ohio will enter the prison system in various states.
Prosecutors brought hate crime charges because they said they believed the attacks were spurred by religious differences.

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