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Evangelist Tony Alamo controlled his followers from behind bars for years when he was in prison for tax evasion.

Evangelist Tony Alamo controlled his followers from behind bars for years when he was in prison for tax evasion.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services is asking a judge to terminate the parental rights of two members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.

A couple who are members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries haven't been found after missing a hearing on the custody status of their children.

Arkansas child-welfare officials recommended Monday that the parental rights of two more fathers who are members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries be terminated, a move that would clear the mena s children to be put up for adoption, an advocate for the parents said Monday.

As the rain steadily came Monday, the number of sign-carrying protesters outside custody hearings concerning children with parents loyal to Tony Alamo dwindled to just a few.

Contrary to promises made on Internet blogs the last several days, an indignant mob of anti-child welfare agency, parent advocates did not appear at Monday’s custody hearings

A brief submitted Friday by Tony Alamo’s defense team asks the federal judge who will sentence him for child sex abuse to have mercy because of his waning health, age and history of good works around the world.

A dozen defendants face charges in crackdown against Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at temporary housing in San Angelo, Texas.

Why no US news coverage about this Pedophielic Polygamy CULT? Amazing how little import the US places on these crimes.

Story killed due to unauthorized use of minor children images who are involved in Federal Court Custody Case WITH GAG order in place.

By: Lynn LaRowe - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 10/23/2009

Antavia Meggs holds her youngest boy, an 18-month-old. Her older three children, two girls ages 3 and 4 and a boy age 5, were last seen with Tony Alamo members John and Jennifer Kolbek. Meggs hasn’t seen or spoken to her oldest three children in over a year.

By: Lynn LaRowe - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 10/23/2009

John Kolbek, fugitive associate of Tony Alamo, owes $3 million to two men who were brutally beaten by him as children, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

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Calling the abuse that two former members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries said they endured "almost beyond my comprehension", said a judge Thursday, entered a default judgment against a fugitive described as the ministry's disciplinarian and ordered him to pay the two teenagers $3 million in damages.

Bert & Miriam Krantz could lose custody of these children on Monday. Bill Medvecky of Free the FLDS Children and Tom Friess of Inquisition Update have announced in the comments section of Bill Medvecky's website that they are planning a protest in front of the courthouse in Texarkana, Arkansas on October 26 and 27.

A bankruptcy judge has agreed to reopen the closed Oklahoma bankruptcy case of Thomas Scarcello, current follower of Tony Alamo.

Story removed due to unautorized photos of minor children in on-going federal case.

By: Lynn LaRowe - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 10/13/2009

An Oklahoma woman accused of impersonating an FBI agent’s secretary to get information from Red River Army Depot in Texarkana will appear before a federal judge later this month.

Tony Alamo’s sentencing for child sex abuse crimes has been reset to Nov. 13 by a federal judge. Alamo, 75, was convicted by a jury July 24 n the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansasof all 10 counts in an indictment accusing him of bringing young girls acro ss state lines for sex between 1994 and 2005.

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A First Amendment right to religious freedom didn't give evangelist Tony Alamo permission to allegedly order beatings of his followers or force them into disciplinary fasts, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.