Amish, sexting and solid parenting

From the ‘We-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up’ department come this headline: “Amish man, 26, accused of sexting Indiana girl, 12”

From the story:

An Amish man who sent more than 600 text messages that included lewd images to a 12-year-old girl he randomly dialed was arrested when he arrived in his horse and buggy for what he thought was a meeting for sex.

That’s the lead. And it leads to many questions. Read the rest for some of the answers.

It’s a pretty unbelievable story, but it’s also scary as the parent of young people who use a cell phone. But the last line of the story is the best:

“It was good communication between the girl and her mother and the mother not being afraid to turn that directly over to the police department,” he (the police detective) said.