Texarkana Gazette
November 29, 2009
By: Les Minor
Alamo dispatches are poor window dressing
It would be reasonable to assume with the conviction of Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison that the activities of his supporters would quickly cease. After all he was larger than life to his followers, and beyond challenge. Without his active participation, what would hold his band together? Wouldn’t they scatter to the four winds?
THE ARKANSAS LEADER
November 25, 2009
By GARRICK FELDMAN
TOP STORY >> Ex-follower of Alamos looks back
A former member of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation contacted us last summer to tell us he was glad Tony was in prison for molesting little girls.
Beliefnet
November 21, 2009
Ben Worthington
Remember the Alamo — Tony Alamo
The story of Tony Alamo is bound, someday, to be made into a movie. It’s so bizarre, so improbable, so full of incident and crime and sin that it makes some soap operas look clean! The horrifyingly saddest part of this story is that Alamo was viewed and viewed himself as a conservative Christian minister. In the eyes of the world, it gives all such persons a bad name. And on top of everything else it plays on and plays right into the ultra right wing paranoia in America about a “NEW WORLD ORDER’ secretly masterminded by the Pope, as an attempt to turn America into a Fascist state. One can only imagine Alamo’s reaction to the revelation last week that Catholic bishops aided in getting the health care legislation changed so that abortions wouldn’t be funded with federal money. Dan Brown couldn’t have thought up a conspiracy story this good, or a nefarious character as amazing as Tony Alamo.
Tony Alamo makes ‘Malakh’ in The Lost Symbol look like a regular guy.
THE ARKANSAS LEADER
November 18, 2009
By GARRICK FELDMAN
Leader executive editor
TOP STORY: Vicious killer, child rapist face revenge
The young thug who killed a popular TV personality, and the old evangelist who assaulted girls as young as 8 and 10 were both sentenced last week and will stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.
Examiner.com
November 16, 2009
Margot Fernandez
Tony Alamo: the same old story–abusive do-it-yourself preacher
Fox News reports today that former preacher Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for the sexual abuse of children. In this case he preyed on the daughters of the people who followed him, taking child brides as young as 8 years of age.
Texarkana Gazette
November 19, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Court upholds seizure of children
Judge: Environment at Alamo compound potentially dangerous
The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday the decisions of Miller County circuit judges concerning the custody of girls removed from Tony Alamo’s house during a law enforcement raid.
NWA News
November 19, 2009
By Charlie Frago
Court: State right to move children
Neglect deemed clear at Alamo’s
The state was right to remove children from the compound of evangelist Tony Alamo and declare that they had been neglected, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
Pine Bluff Commercial
November 18, 2009
By JON GAMBRILL
Appeals court upholds seizure of Alamo children
Arkansas officials properly seized children living at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries who faced “a clear picture of danger” from beatings and forced fasts ordered by the evangelist, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Arkansas News
November 18, 2009
Arkansas News Bureau
Appeals court upholds removal of children from Alamo compound
State human services officials were justified in removing children living at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries last year for their own protection, the state Court of Appeals ruled today.
WREG, News Channel 3 – Memphis (CBS)
November 18, 2009
JON GAMBRILL, Associated Press Writer
Ark. appeals court upholds decision by state to seize children from Alamo ministries
The Arkansas Court of Appeals has ruled that state child-welfare officials properly seized children from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries after a police raid.
KATV
November 13, 2009
The Associated Press
Texarkana Gazette
November 15, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo’s sentencing leaves concern over continuation of organization
Observers outside Texarkana’s federal building expressed hope that Tony Alamo’s 175-year sentence will mean the end of his disgraced ministry.
Texarkana Gazette
November 15, 2009
The following is a list of characteristics associated with “cultic” groups condensed from a list provided by ICSA. The list was created from a book published in 1989 by Dr. Robert J. Lifton, “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism”.
1. Milieu Control: Isolation of individuals from society by controlling information and communication.
The National Ledger
November 15, 2009
By Jess Snow
Crime Beat: Tony Alamo to Jail – 175 Years
According to CNN Tony Alamo (Bernie Hoffman) called the allegations against him a hoax, but the 75-year-old leader of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries will spend the rest of his life behind bars unless he wins on appeal. An Arkansas judge sentenced him to 175 years Friday on charges that included taking minors across state lines for sex, according to prosecutors.
ECanada Now
November 15, 2009
Posted by Staff
Evangelist Alamo Sentenced To 175 Years In Prison
An Arkansas judge has sentenced evangelist Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison Friday on charges that included taking minors across state lines for sex, according to media reports Saturday.
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.
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.
YubaNet.com
November 14, 2009
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Former Evangelist Receives 175 Year Sentence For Sexual Exploitation Offenses
Bernie Hoffman, aka Tony Alamo, founder and leader of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, age 75, was sentenced to 175 years imprisonment today by U.S. District Court Judge Harry F. Barnes in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, announced U.S. Attorney Deborah Groom. Alamo was convicted this summer of charges that he transported minor girls across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity. On July 24, 2009, after six days of testimony, the jury found Alamo guilty on all 10 counts of the federal indictment. During the trial, the women testified Alamo had sexual relations with them while they were underage and that they traveled across state lines with Alamo, or at his request, for the purpose of his having sexual relations with them. The sentence included a fine in the amount of $250,000, and special assessments in the amount of $850.00. The sentence represents the maximum sentence on each of the 10 counts which will be served consecutively.
