Mennos in the News: Mennonites accused of mass rape in Bolivia

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Reuters UK, June 23

Eight men from a Mennonite community in Bolivia have been arrested and accused of raping at least 60 women from their farming settlement in the eastern Santa Cruz region, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

"We've been told that more than 60 women from the Manitoba Mennonite community (could have been raped). Possibly many more ... it seems this has been going on for about 10 years," prosecutor Freddy Perez told local television network PAT.

The arrested men could have used drugs to sedate their victims, said Perez, adding the men were suspected of raping at least two underage girls.

"They confessed when they were detained by members of their community ... now they are denying (the charges)," said Perez ...

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