Posted on 11/13/2009 12:34:12 PM PST by JoeProBono
Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, effectively punishing him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as "brides" in his ministry. During Friday's hearing, some of Alamo's victims testified about how their families were destroyed while the evangelist took over their lives. Alamo, 75, had been convicted in July on a 10-count federal indictment. U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes said Alamo used his status as father figure and pastor and threatened and threatened the girls with "the loss of their salvation."
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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 file photo, Evangelist Tony Alamo, center is led from the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana Ark. The aging preacher, 75, faces up to a 175-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes when he returns to a Texarkana, Ark., federal courtroom on FridayNov. 13. A jury convicted him in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls as young as 8 across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis)
What a piece of garbage...no offense to garbage.
That’ll give him a lot of time to ponder the error of his ways... and then some. What an incredible story and tragedy for all those that fell victim to this lump of .. crap.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
Evangelist? More like cult leader....
Well, he’ll have a whole new kind of ministry now.
So he’s going to be like 250 years old when they release him back into society? I’d a gave him life without parole.
Check out his Website. Warning: It's a sewer.
Ping to #10.
I can not imagine the terror of those little girls forced to sleep with that creepy old man.
Plain disgusting.And the people who aided and abetted should have the same punishment,if not worse for doing what they did.
Children of God should never be used in ANY immoral transactions.As for that,not used in ANY way except for goodness.
Children are innocent,and I do believe the LORD WILL TAKE CARE OF THEM.
Hang the perv.
...special place in hell...
It’s just a matter of time until behavior like his becomes a human right protected by law.
Just give the Democrats enough time.
Applying the term "Christian" to the filth on that website is blasphemous.
Pastor Tony Alamo is not guilty, yet they still convicted him.
PRESS RELEASE
From Tony Alamo
July 17, 2009
Regarding Government-Vatican Persecution vs. Tony Alamo
It is a violation of the US Constitution for the government to attack any religion, especially Christianity!! My trial is government vs. the Bible. The five young women who are falsely testifying against me have all been convinced to do so by the FBI.
The FBI paid all of their tuition to go to a place called Wellspring, which is a “deprogramming center.” Deprogramming is a nice word for hypnosis, brainwashing, mind-control, voodoo, black magic. Their testimony is not to be believed because it is not true, and they are not in their right mind. They are under a hateful spell of witchcraft. They (in court) have all said that I, Tony Alamo, said, “The Lord said you are to marry me.” This is all a lie. I never told that to any one of them. Their testimonies cannot be believed because they are all uniformly brainwashed. They (the young women) never contacted the FBI; the FBI contacted every one of them and gave them thousands of dollars and many gifts to lie for them. The FBI is against the Bible, Christianity, God, and all Christian churches.
The legal age of marriage is puberty. Webster’s Dictionary states childhood is the “state or time of being a child; state or time from birth or infancy to puberty or maturity.” Webster’s definition of puberty is “the age when one becomes capable to bear children, which is marked by maturing of the reproductive organs, with the onset of menstruation in the female; the period at which sexual maturity is reached.” The Bible says this as well.
God’s Word, the Bible, never condemns a man for having more than one wife!
Remember how they murdered, burnt up, the Christians at Waco, Texas! They are demonic. Witnesses for the FBI and all those they have paid to go to Wellspring are all saying the same thing, what they are told to say.
Tony Alamo’s twitter
God is the authority and knows everything that has happened from the beginning of the world and before, and all throughout the Bible to the end. He has written nothing of “Global Warming.” There is nothing predicting that.
This man was a thorn in Nashville’s side for many years. He had a house where all his “people” lived and worked. They made gaudy jackets for many country stars, and when they weren’t gluing glitter they would paper your windshield with their idiotic beliefs. I can’t tell you how many times I pulled off one of their “tracts” and threw it straight in the trash.
If I am not mistaken, I believe he had his wife’s coffin in his house for many years.... but I wouldn’t swear to the accuracy of that in court.
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