San Francisco Chronicle
July 21, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer

Alamo: ‘I’m going to testify’ in sex crimes trial

Evangelist Tony Alamo walked into court Tuesday and told reporters he planned to take the stand in his sex-crime trial, even though his lawyers have advised against it.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution
July 20, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL
The Associated Press

Woman: Alamo asked, ‘Think I’m a dirty old man?’

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Texarkana Gazette
July 20, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe

Girl feared punishment for using phone

When she realized Tony Alamo was going to find out she’d secretly used a telephone for the second time in a couple of weeks, a 15-year-old former office worker said she ran away.

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Texarkana Gazette
July 20, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe

‘Almost like a boot camp’

Ex-Alamo followers say ‘you never have peace in that place’

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Main Justice
July 20, 2009
By Mary Jacoby

At Evangelist’s Trial, Horrific Tales of Sexual Abuse of Young Girls

If you grew up in Arkansas, as I did, you are familiar with the crazed preaching of an evangelist named Tony Alamo. His fliers denouncing the Vatican and the “one world” government were everywhere – left on your car windshields, sometimes even mailed to your home. They were many pages of type, single spaced. He lived in a compound in Fouke, Arkansas, with a swimming pool, and there were reports of polygamy and sex with young girls going back to at least the mid-1990s.tony-alamo

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News Times (Connecticut)
July 18, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer

At compound, Alamo controlled all aspects of life

In the years after evangelist Tony Alamo took the 14-year-old girl as a bride, she said, she caught glimpses of her father on the surveillance cameras that fed into the minister’s office.

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KY3 - CBS
July 18, 2009
By The Associated Press

A teenager testified in the Arkansas evangelist sex case

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Texarkana Gazette
July 18, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe

‘Only thing he used me for was sex’

The last of five Jane Does named in Tony Alamo’s federal indictment testified Friday that she was chosen at age 11 to marry him because Alamo thought she had the body of a 6-year-old.

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NWA News
July 18, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS

Teen says she, Alamo wed when she was 11

The last of five reported victims of evangelist Tony Alamo took the stand Friday, telling jurors that she was married to him at age 11 and had sex with him on a bus during a trip from Arkansas to California.

The girl, now 17 and living in Colorado, said she was “terrified” of Alamo. At his home in Fouke (Miller County), where she lived with Alamo and his other wives, the girl said she would try to keep herself busy, making sure she was always holding a baby or a pile of dirty dish towels when she walked by Alamo in the office adjoining his bedroom.

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Times-Standard (California)
July 17, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL

Woman says she feared Alamo would hurt her sister

A woman who said evangelist Tony Alamo had sexually abused her since she was 8 acknowledged to jurors Friday that she hates him, but said the reason she agreed to testify was because she is afraid he will molest her little sister.

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