Venice Family Clinic
August 2008
FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEFT CULTS OR OTHER HIGH DEMAND GROUPS
The program, first of its kind in the U.S., is designed specifically for people who have left cults or other tightly controlled groups, often burdened by their previous acculturation to beliefs and behaviors foreign to mainstream society:
“It was a huge shock to me leaving, like stepping onto another planet.
Texarkana Gazette
September 3, 2008
by Jim Williamson
Man pleads guilty
Plea bargain allows trafficker to attend Alamo religious services
Buster White, right, leaves the federal courthouse Oct. 4, 2007, in Texarkana escorted by an attorney after pleading innocent to federal charges of trafficking in counterfeit merchandise including 1,400 counterfeit Nike shoes at the Great American Outlet Mall. White, 58, entered a guilty plea Tuesday to one count of trafficking in counterfeit musical CDs before U.S. District Judge David Folsom in the Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana division.
FOUKE, Ark. (Sept. 20) - Federal authorities conducting a child-porn investigation raided the headquarters Saturday of a ministry run by a convicted tax evader once labeled by prosecutors as a polygamist who preys on girls and women.
(CBS/AP) FBI agents and state police raided an evangelists’ headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation and said they planned to remove several children from the complex, run by a man previously accused of child abuse.
Federal officials raided the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries Church and neighboring homes Saturday in Fouke, Ark., about 12 miles southeast of Texarkana.
