Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
October 2007
By Susy Buchanan
SECRETS EXPOSED
The Ravening Wolf
Catholic-Hating Organization Reemerges
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Clad in matching T-shirts with bejeweled cross logos, members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries are once again saving souls on Hollywood Boulevard. Since the late 1960s, followers of notorious cult leader Tony Alamo have recruited and distributed literature on this star-studded sidewalk.
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In: 2000-2007, Secrets Exposed!
RE-POSTED FROM FEBRUARY 10, 2009
I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Christhiaon Coie. My Mother was Susan Alamo, the actual founder of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation. Some of my earliest memories and things that my late brother Charlie told me are of Momma leaving him, a teenage boy, to care for me. With no food, milk, or cash and with landlords banging on doors for their rent, Charlie couldn’t stand it any more and ran away and joined the Navy.
From that day on it was Momma and me. One day my Mother would drag me to a church. I would sing and she would preach and we would leave with a LOVE offering. When the unmarked cans would be almost gone and the beer supply would dwindle the beatings would escalate; some so bad that school was out of the question. She finally took me out of school in the eighth grade.
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In: Editorials
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They Told Me If I Left …
by Ron Henzel
One of the most insidious features of Spiritual Abuse is the state of terror in which it leaves so many of its victims.
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In: Articles & Literature of Interest
Texarkana Gazette
November 15, 2009
Editorial
Just Desserts;
Wheels of justice grind slowly, but they eventually caught up with Tony Alamo
Justice sometimes takes time. And often, we are convinced, it is not done in chronological time, one of our human measuring sticks.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year), Editorials
Texarkana Gazette
November 15, 2009
By: Jim Williamson
Residents react to Alamo sentence;
‘Wow. This has been what we’ve been waiting for.’
FOUKE, Ark.—Heads turned Friday morning when Tony Alamo walked to the U.S. marshal’s car at the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana after he was sentenced to 175 in federal prison.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
KTBS
November 13, 2009
Alamo gets maximum 175-year sentence
TEXARKANA — Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced today to the maximum 175 years in prison for taking underage girls in his church across state lines for sex and making them his “brides.”
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Texarkana Gazette
November 13, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo sentenced
A federal judge sentenced evangelist Tony Alamo to the maximum number of years on his conviction related to transporting young girls across state line for immoral purposes. He received 175 years.
In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Associated Press
November 13, 2009
JON GAMBRELL
Child ‘brides’ testify at evangelist’s sentencing
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) – Three women who Tony Alamo took as child “brides” have testified at Alamo’s sentencing hearing about the damage the convicted evangelist did to them and their families.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Texarkana Gazette
November 13, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo sentencing today: Separate hearing set for victim restitution issues
The amount of restitution Tony Alamo owes to the young girls he took as child brides won’t be decided this morning at his federal sentencing on sex abuse charges in downtown Texarkana.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Texarkana Gazette
November 13, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo delivered for sentencing
About 6:40 a.m. today, a caravan of federal marshals delivered Tony Alamo to the federal courthouse for his sentencing hearing on 10 child sex abuse convictions in downtown Texarkana.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
NWAnews
April 16, 2009
A man arrested on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender after he was found at a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries warehouse in Fort Smith plans to change his plea, court documents indicate.
Jonathon Patrick Curry, 49, was arrested Jan. 13 on a charge of failure to comply with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
NWAnews
April 16, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo too late to seek bond, judge decides
Evangelist Tony Alamo’s request to be released on bond while he awaits trial on sex charges was made more than five months too late, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Texarkana Gazette
April 11, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Prosecutors counter motion asking for bail for Tony Alamo
Tony Alamo, a minister accused of sexual abuse, should stay behind bars until his May trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a motion filed Friday.
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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
Texarkana Gazette
April 10, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo suit: DHS violating civil rights
Lawsuit alleges church can no longer serve the poor
Florida attorney Phillip Kuhn makes a statement Thursday outside the Federal courthouse in Texarkana. Kuhn filed a lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Human Services on behalf of the church and two fathers whose children are in foster care.
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In: 2000-2007
NWAnews
April 10, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo’s ministry, 2 parents sue state
The Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and two of its members sued the Arkansas Department of Human Services in federal court Thursday, saying the department has “engaged in a systematic, persistent and continuous campaign of harassment and intimidation against the church.”
The suit in U.S. District Court in Texarkana cites the removal of 36 children from the ministry and requirements that their parents move off church property and find jobs outside the ministry to regain custody. The department says the children are endangered by practices that include underage marriages and beatings for violations of church rules. It is continuing to search for 92 other children believed at risk.
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In: 2000-2007
NWAnews
April 9, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS
Ex-Bakker attorney joins Alamo defense
Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo has added another attorney to his defense team – and this one has experience defending a religious leader in a high-profile case.
U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes issued an order Monday officially recognizing Don Ervin of Houston as one of Alamo’s attorneys.
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In: 2000-2007
Texarkana Gazette
April 9, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Lawyers appeal Tony Alamo’s jail detention
The newest member of Tony Alamo’s defense team is appealing a U.S. magistrate judge’s ruling that the evangelist should remain jailed until trial because he is a flight risk and a threat to the community.
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In: 2000-2007
The Associated Press
April 9, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL
Alamo ministry sues Ark. for seizing children
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Tony Alamo Christian Ministries filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Arkansas child welfare officials of persecuting the jailed evangelist’s followers as he awaits trial on child sex charges.
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In: 2000-2007
