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Posted: 11:54 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012

Amish child killed in farming accident

By NEWS9



CARROLL COUNTY, Ohio --

A 7-year-old Amish boy from Carroll County was killed in a farming accident on Tuesday.

Sheriff Dale Williams said the accident happened on the boy's family's farm on Pebble Road during the evening.

Williams said the victim, Chris Kurtz, was somehow caught in a motor. The child's death has been ruled accidental.

The boy's father found his son near the drive train of the motor that runs milking equipment.

Kurtz was taken to a Canton hospital then transferred to Akron Children's Hospital, where he later died.

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