MedicCook
11-04-2006, 09:30 PM
Amish plan new school near site of slayings
NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The Amish community has decided to build a new school within sight of the now-razed schoolhouse where a man last month shot 10 girls and killed five.
Relatives of the girls, the teacher and school board members met at the Bart Township Fire Hall on Wednesday to approve building the one-room school on a parcel carved out of an Amish farmer's field.
Security measures have been discussed for the new building, including a chain-link fence, doors with peepholes and chains, and a paging system connected to police.
It is unclear whether any of the measures will be implemented or when the school will be built.
The Amish construct buildings by hand, without the aid of modern technology.
But they relied on an outside demolition crew to quickly bring down West Nickel Mines Amish School a little more than a week after Charles Carl Roberts IV carried out his rampage on October 2.
He left a suicide note, saying that he was carrying out a 20-year grudge and that he had recently been having thoughts of molesting children.
Shocking and humbling Roberts' family, members of the Amish community showed up to the killer's funeral and reached out to comfort his wife and children.
Since the shootings, 15 boys and two girls -- including one of the girls who was shot -- have been attending school set up in a nearby business.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/04/amish.school.ap/index.html
NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The Amish community has decided to build a new school within sight of the now-razed schoolhouse where a man last month shot 10 girls and killed five.
Relatives of the girls, the teacher and school board members met at the Bart Township Fire Hall on Wednesday to approve building the one-room school on a parcel carved out of an Amish farmer's field.
Security measures have been discussed for the new building, including a chain-link fence, doors with peepholes and chains, and a paging system connected to police.
It is unclear whether any of the measures will be implemented or when the school will be built.
The Amish construct buildings by hand, without the aid of modern technology.
But they relied on an outside demolition crew to quickly bring down West Nickel Mines Amish School a little more than a week after Charles Carl Roberts IV carried out his rampage on October 2.
He left a suicide note, saying that he was carrying out a 20-year grudge and that he had recently been having thoughts of molesting children.
Shocking and humbling Roberts' family, members of the Amish community showed up to the killer's funeral and reached out to comfort his wife and children.
Since the shootings, 15 boys and two girls -- including one of the girls who was shot -- have been attending school set up in a nearby business.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/04/amish.school.ap/index.html