By David Lohr
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During the spring of 1995, a jury of his peers found Gingerich guilty of "involuntary manslaughter but mentally ill." He was sentenced to a minimum term of two and one-half years and a maximum of five, with credit for time served. Gingerich was denied his first bid for parole in December 1995; however, on March 19, 1998, at the age of thirty-four, after having served his full sentence, he was released from the State Correctional Institution in Cambridge Springs, Pa.
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Following his release, Gingerich moved to Harmony Haven in Evart, Mich., a community for troubled Amish people. He purportedly remained there until December 2006. His movements since that time are not yet clear.
All of the most recent events began on April 18, when Edward Gingerich's son, Daniel, took over the reins of a buggy in which Mary was riding with their aunt Clara, and navigated the buggy to his Uncle Atlee's house. Once there, Edward Gingerich, his son, Eno, and his brothers, Joseph, 43, and Atlee, 44, locked Clara inside the barn and coerced Mary to go with them to an undisclosed location. The men allegedly told Mary that she had to cooperate or they would call the police, and she would be forced to go with them. She reluctantly agreed, perhaps more out of fear than from a sense of cooperation, and left with her father in a black sedan.
The following day, Judge John Spataro granted Mary's grandparents, Dannie and Mary Gingerich, temporary custody of Mary. The court order said that Gingerich was to turn his daughter over to them immediately and that he was to have no further contact with her until the matter was resolved in a court of law.
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