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"The Lancaster County man accused of tying up and torturing three elderly women last month at their Clay Township home was in court Tuesday morning.Dereck Holt's dad was at his court appearance. He did not want to go on camera, but told News 8 he never thought his son was capable of such a crime. He said his son suffered from anxiety.Holt's dad found a bag of weapons and took the gun, but left the stun gun -- a move he said he regrets. Police said Dereck Holt used the stun gun to torture the women. \u00A0 \u00A0 \u00A0News 8 asked the 22-year-old what he wants to say to his dad, \"I guess if I had anything to say it would be ...,\" Holt said, but never finished his sentence.Court papers show Holt told the women he targeted them because he was upset with the Mennonite faith, saying he had been a member of that church.His dad told News 8 that he was a religious studies major in college, but he does not think his son was ever a Mennonite.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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