Alamo, 75, gets 175 years
Evangelist ‘wed’ girls young as 8
Photo by Texarkana Gazette/EVAN LEWIS
Tony Alamo answers questions from reporters Friday outside the federal courthouse in Texarkana after he was sentenced to the maximum of 175 years for transporting girls across state lines for sex.
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A judge Friday sentenced evangelist Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison, saying it was “hard to imagine” the damage inflicted on the young girls the preacher took as “wives” and kept under his strict control.
“Mr. Alamo, one day you will face a higher and greater judge than me,” U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes said as Alamo, wearing a jailissued olive uniform and blue jacket, stood with one of his attorneys before a packed courtroom gallery in the federal courthouse in Texarkana. “May he have mercy on your soul.”
Alamo, the 75-year-old leader of a multistate ministry with headquarters in southwest Arkansas,was convicted by a jury in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls across ...
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