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Beat : my journey through abuse and the Holdeman Mennonites

Beat : my journey through abuse and the Holdeman Mennonites

Book 2021

I was born to an abusive doctor named Ahaz in Kentucky, home-schooled and not even allowed to have friends. When I was nine, Ahaz discovered The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman) in Tennessee, and forced us to move there. The Holdeman's were religious exempt from education beyond the eighth grade, and I was beat for begging to go to high school. As a minor, I had to kiss approximately 200 different people on the lips, some of whom wer...