An Amish man who sent hundreds of sick sexual texts to a 12-year-old girl was arrested after arranging a tryst in his horse-drawn buggy.
Willard Yoder, 21, set up a rendezvous with the child at an Indiana restaurant, according to police.
But when he arrived in his buggy, he was arrested as part of an undercover police sting. Investigators said the Amish man was cooperative and ‘walked his horse and buggy around the building and tied it to a post outside’.
According to a police report posted on The Smoking Gun website, Yoder claimed he contacted the schoolgirl’s cell phone by chance.
The report by Connersville Police Department said Yoder told his intended victim that ‘the sex would happen inside the buggy’.
But in reality, the unwitting man was really communicating with the girl’s parents, who had taken the phone and were posing as their daughter to try and trick him into incriminating himself.
He allegedly sent about 600 texts as well as nude pictures and explicit videos.
Five of the photos showed male genitals and two pictured a man from the chest area up, said the police report.
‘He requested numerous times for her to send naked pictures, specifically requesting picure of her genitals. Willard advised in graphic detail that he wanted to have intercourse and oral sex’ with the girl, it added.
Police launched the sting after being contacted by the parents.
After arranging the meeting outside the Takehome Restaurant, police staking out the building reported they saw ‘the outline of a carriage type buggy pulled by one horse and what appeared to be one occupant’.
Yoder, who said he thought the girl was 13, said he ‘realised it was a bad decision and had never done anything like this before’.
He also allegedly admitted that ‘he thought he was going to have sex with the girl’.
His parents were called to pick up the horse and buggy while Yoder was hauled off to jail and charged with four felony counts of allegedly soliciting sex from a minor.
He was later freed on $200,000 bond.
The Amish are known for their simple living, plain dress and their reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern life such as cars and even electricity in some cases.
Some of the largest Amish or Mennonite communities are in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
