The parents of a 14-year-old girl from Brecknock Township experienced all of that last month.
Except their daughter didn't want to walk on the wild side, as many teens do.
She wanted to join a strict, splinter group of the Mennonite church.
Three church members were arrested Wednesday for allegedly concealing the girl from her parents and from police after she ran away from home, with plans to ultimately take her to Kentucky.
In arrest warrant affidavits filed in the case, an unusual tale unfolds of escape plans that were to be burned or destroyed, a middle-of-the-night getaway, a change from modern clothes into Mennonite garb, a hiding place in a chicken coop and a stubborn refusal by church members to hand over the girl.
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