By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 18:59 EST, 30 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:07 EST, 30 August 2012 . An Amish woman and her brothers cut the hair of her parents in Ohio to help them get to heaven the woman has claimed while taking the stand at the trial of 16 breakaway Amish members. The woman told jurors overseeing the hate crimes trial that her siblings had been worried that their parents were drifting away from their religion. She says they piled into a van and drove two hours last October to take her father's hair and beard as well as her mother's hair to help them. Taking the stand: Amish women are seen leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse on Tuesday, two days before a jury heard testimony by one who claims they cut off her parents' hair after the couple strayed from their religion . Prosecutors say what happened in five hair-cuttings in eastern Ohio last fall amounted to hate crimes because they were motivated solely by religious disagreements. The government says the suspects targeted the hair and beards of Amish people because of its spiritual significance in the faith. The claims came amid further testimony that intensified when a woman took the stand to accuse an Amish bishop of forcing women in their settlement to have sex with him. The allegations against Samuel Mullet Sr, also accused of orchestrating the hair-cutting attacks, say he forced married women to have sex with him so he could turn them into better wives, one of the women testified. Crimes: Prosecutors say the five hair-cuttings of men's beards and women's hair in eastern Ohio last fall were hate crimes because they were motivated solely by religious disagreements . The woman said what started out as hugs turned into kisses and then sex. She said she resisted at first. 'He would say things like `I can't understand why you won't obey me, the other ladies can,'' the woman testified. 'I always gave up. I was afraid not to.' Prosecutors say the alleged sexual 'counseling' of married women shows the control Mullet had over followers at the Amish settlement he founded two decades ago. The 16 people accused of carrying out the hair-cutting attacks last fall all lived on Mullet's settlement in eastern Ohio near the West Virginia panhandle. The government contends that the hair cutting was motivated by a religious dispute between Mullet and other Amish bishops who had sought to limit his authority. Those accused of planning and taking part targeted the hair and beards of the Amish because of its spiritual significance in the faith, prosecutors said. Arrests: These five men, along with reputed Amish breakaway sect leader Sam Mullet and Emanuel Shrock, were arrested by the FBI and local sheriff's deputies last fall on federal hate crime charges . Mullet has denied any involvement. Sexual force: A woman testified that Samuel Mullet Sr, pictured, accused of orchestrating the hair-cutting attacks, forced married women to have sex with him so he could turn them into better wives . His defense attorneys had tried before the trial began to bar any testimony about the alleged sexual 'counseling.' They argued that there was no proof of such sexual conduct and that mentioning it would be highly prejudicial. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster told jurors after the woman took the stand that Mullet was not charged with any sex crimes and that they could only consider the testimony as it relates to charges in the indictment. The woman said her husband had a mental breakdown in the summer of 2008 and was in the hospital when Mullet suggested that her husband's trouble stemmed from dissatisfaction with his marriage. Mullet told her he wanted to help the couple with marriage counseling, and she agreed to his request to move in with him, she said. At first, he wanted hugs, from her she said, adding that she learned he had asked the same of other women. 'Next we had to kiss him or maybe we had to sit on his lap,' she said. 'I'm not sure what was first.' Even . asking for a hug was a startling request, she said, in a community that . values modesty and is deeply religious. Amish women in the most . conservative churches traditionally wear long dresses, bonnets over . their hair and frown upon drawing attention to themselves. She went along with Mullet's wishes because she thought it would help her husband, she said. Refusal: After refusing Mullet's sexual advances, the woman testifying said that she moved her family out of the Amish settlement and to Pennsylvania (Lancaster County pictured) One evening after moving into Mullet's home, another woman came to her and said that he wanted to see her in his bedroom, she said. She said she refused, but Mullet was insistent. The woman said she moved out of the house after about two months when her husband returned to the settlement, but she continued to see Mullet at his home. 'I was afraid not to go,' she said. The woman said she finally told Mullet a month later that it had to stop. He called her a whore, she said. The woman and her husband soon left the Amish settlement where they had raised their children and moved to Pennsylvania. We just took our children and a few suitcases with our clothes,' she said.
One of 16 Amish members on trial claims she and her siblings cut her parents' hair because they were drifting away from their religion .
Prosecutors say the cutting was motivated by religious disagreement amounting to a hate crime .
Testimony comes as a second woman claims an Amish bishop forced his settlement's women to have sex with him .
Samuel Mullet Sr is accused of forcing women to have sex with him to make them into better wives .
By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 18:59 EST, 30 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:07 EST, 30 August 2012 . An Amish woman and her brothers cut the hair of her parents in Ohio to help them get to heaven the woman has claimed while taking the stand at the trial of 16 breakaway Amish members. The woman told jurors overseeing the hate crimes trial that her siblings had been worried that their parents were drifting away from their religion. She says they piled into a van and drove two hours last October to take her father's hair and beard as well as her mother's hair to help them. Taking the stand: Amish women are seen leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse on Tuesday, two days before a jury heard testimony by one who claims they cut off her parents' hair after the couple strayed from their religion . Prosecutors say what happened in five hair-cuttings in eastern Ohio last fall amounted to hate crimes because they were motivated solely by religious disagreements. The government says the suspects targeted the hair and beards of Amish people because of its spiritual significance in the faith. The claims came amid further testimony that intensified when a woman took the stand to accuse an Amish bishop of forcing women in their settlement to have sex with him. The allegations against Samuel Mullet Sr, also accused of orchestrating the hair-cutting attacks, say he forced married women to have sex with him so he could turn them into better wives, one of the women testified. Crimes: Prosecutors say the five hair-cuttings of men's beards and women's hair in eastern Ohio last fall were hate crimes because they were motivated solely by religious disagreements . The woman said what started out as hugs turned into kisses and then sex. She said she resisted at first. 'He would say things like `I can't understand why you won't obey me, the other ladies can,'' the woman testified. 'I always gave up. I was afraid not to.' Prosecutors say the alleged sexual 'counseling' of married women shows the control Mullet had over followers at the Amish settlement he founded two decades ago. The 16 people accused of carrying out the hair-cutting attacks last fall all lived on Mullet's settlement in eastern Ohio near the West Virginia panhandle. The government contends that the hair cutting was motivated by a religious dispute between Mullet and other Amish bishops who had sought to limit his authority. Those accused of planning and taking part targeted the hair and beards of the Amish because of its spiritual significance in the faith, prosecutors said. Arrests: These five men, along with reputed Amish breakaway sect leader Sam Mullet and Emanuel Shrock, were arrested by the FBI and local sheriff's deputies last fall on federal hate crime charges . Mullet has denied any involvement. Sexual force: A woman testified that Samuel Mullet Sr, pictured, accused of orchestrating the hair-cutting attacks, forced married women to have sex with him so he could turn them into better wives . His defense attorneys had tried before the trial began to bar any testimony about the alleged sexual 'counseling.' They argued that there was no proof of such sexual conduct and that mentioning it would be highly prejudicial. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster told jurors after the woman took the stand that Mullet was not charged with any sex crimes and that they could only consider the testimony as it relates to charges in the indictment. The woman said her husband had a mental breakdown in the summer of 2008 and was in the hospital when Mullet suggested that her husband's trouble stemmed from dissatisfaction with his marriage. Mullet told her he wanted to help the couple with marriage counseling, and she agreed to his request to move in with him, she said. At first, he wanted hugs, from her she said, adding that she learned he had asked the same of other women. 'Next we had to kiss him or maybe we had to sit on his lap,' she said. 'I'm not sure what was first.' Even . asking for a hug was a startling request, she said, in a community that . values modesty and is deeply religious. Amish women in the most . conservative churches traditionally wear long dresses, bonnets over . their hair and frown upon drawing attention to themselves. She went along with Mullet's wishes because she thought it would help her husband, she said. Refusal: After refusing Mullet's sexual advances, the woman testifying said that she moved her family out of the Amish settlement and to Pennsylvania (Lancaster County pictured) One evening after moving into Mullet's home, another woman came to her and said that he wanted to see her in his bedroom, she said. She said she refused, but Mullet was insistent. The woman said she moved out of the house after about two months when her husband returned to the settlement, but she continued to see Mullet at his home. 'I was afraid not to go,' she said. The woman said she finally told Mullet a month later that it had to stop. He called her a whore, she said. The woman and her husband soon left the Amish settlement where they had raised their children and moved to Pennsylvania. We just took our children and a few suitcases with our clothes,' she said.
stand at the trial of 16 breakaway Amish members. their parents were drifting away from their claims they cut off her parents' hair after the couple strayed from their religion . Prosecutors because they were motivated solely by religious accuse an Amish bishop of forcing women in their forced married women to have sex with him so he women testified. Crimes: Prosecutors say the five the hair cutting was motivated by a religious Samuel Mullet Sr, pictured, accused of turn them into better wives . His defense