She said she was told by her children that she was going "straight to hell", and her son Lester called her a "whore" when they found out that she and her husband were leaving the community where her brother was bishop.
Miller said she used to have a good relationship with her brother, but he had become more "Old Testament, and we are more New Testament," explaining that by Old Testament she meant "more violence, angry, hateful."
She said her brother had become "angry, angry, very angry, screaming and yelling, and no one could do anything right, and you didn't know what set him off. He was a dictator."
Amish women spectators who had come to court to support Miller wept during her testimony.
Hershberger said that five men had gone to his home demanding to speak with his 76-year-old father, a bishop in the Amish community, before grabbing both men to shave their beards and hair.
Hershberger took the stand after agreeing to be truthful in his testimony rather than take the standard oath on the Bible because the Amish do not believe in oath taking.
(Reporting By Kim Palmer; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Greg McCune)
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