Indiana: Tuesday reports began to circulate that 21-year-old William Yoder, an Amish man, was arrested in a police sting after arriving at a Takathemoke Restaurant in Milroy, driving a horse and buggy, and expecting to hook-up with a 12-year-old girl. Instead, he met a police decoy.
Yoder was taken to Fayette County Jail, about 60 miles east of Indianapolis, where in a videotaped statement he confessed that he sent video messages, naked pictures of himself and lewd text messages.
Apparently, and contrary to public opinion, some practicing Amish use cell phones, as well as traditional land-line phones, though usually when Amish do keep phones they are not kept in the house, but in a shared, community dwelling.
Yoder had previously been text messaging and exchanging sexually explicit messages with the 12-year-old, an activity known as sexting. However, instead of participating in an expected sexual rendezvous, police officers arrested the 21 year-old Amish man.
At some point in the sexting relationship the girls parents caught on, and alerted police. Police then set up a sting operation.