Texarkana Gazette
January 31, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Parental rights cut for some followers
After hearing she and six other parents devoted to Tony Alamo have permanently lost custody of their children, one mother was carried from the Miller County Juvenile Justice Center.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 31, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo parents plan to appeal
Severed rights affect 13 youths
An advocate for members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries called a judge’s decision to sever the parental rights of several of those members a “tragedy” and said Saturday that the parents plan to appeal.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 30, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
The daughter of Tony Alamo’s deceased wife, Susan Alamo, wants Fort Smith property seized to satisfy a $100,000 judgment awarded to her in a lawsuit concerning her mother’s missing casket.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 30, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo-case judge strips some of parental rights
Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin on Friday terminated the rights of most of the parents of children removed from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Griffin’s ruling late Friday night affects all the parents except one.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 29, 2010
BY ANDREW DAVIS
Parental rights of six Alamo church members terminated
A judge on Thursday terminated the parental rights of six members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, clearing the way for the members’ children to be put up for adoption.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 29, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Closed custody hearings for Alamo parents continue today
Custody hearings concerning six families with ties to Alamo Ministries are taking longer than expected and will continue today.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 29, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo custody judge: 2 barred
Obey gag order, he advises others
On the second day of a hearing on the custody status of children removed from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, a judge warned participants to abide by his gag order and kicked two members of an advocacy group out of the courthouse.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 28, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Decisions coming today in Alamo custody cases
Hearings began Wednesday in Miller County on whether children of Alamo loyalists should be permanently removed from their parents, continue in temporary foster home placements or be reunited with family.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 28, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo leaves town
Convicted sex abuser on his way to federal prison
Convicted child sex abuser Tony Alamo is at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Website.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 28, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
During a hearing Wednesday on the custody status of children removed from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, child welfare officials played recordings of evangelist Tony Alamo giving instructions to church members over the phone from jail.
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KTAL
January 27, 2010
Reported by: Mario Boone
Tony Alamo Moved to Federal Prison
Tony Alamo was moved out of the Bowie County Correctional Center at some point between Tuesday, January 26th and Wednesday, January 27th. NBC 6 has learned Alamo is being housed temporarily at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, OK. The FTC Oklahoma is in Western OK off Interstate 40.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 27, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
Kids focus of Alamo hearings
State to ask that parents’ ties be cut so youths can be adopted
The court proceedings on the custody status of children removed from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries are entering a new phase this week. Attorneys for the Arkansas Department of Human Services are expected to argue that ministry members’ legal rights with respect to the children should be terminated so the children can be put up for adoption.
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Today’s THV
January 27, 2010
Ashley Blackstone, The Associated Press
Tony Alamo: Custody hearings for children taken from compound
Hearings are scheduled in Miller County Circuit Court on the custody status of children taken from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 25, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Prosecutors fear assests may be dissapated during appeal
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Texarkana Gazette
January 24, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Cult or church, what’s the difference?
Clergy answer questions
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FindLaw
May 1, 2008
By MARCI HAMILTON
Recently, Texas authorities entered the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch, which is one of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compounds, with a warrant based on calls from a person who alleged that she was an underage girl being subjected to physical and sexual abuse, including rape, at the Ranch. Once the authorities entered, though, they discovered pregnant underage girls, girls with more than one child, papers indicating that rampant polygamy was occurring at YFZ, and even a document involving cyanide poisoning. The authorities then intelligently made the decision that they had to remove all of the children from a situation that posed obvious and serious danger to them.
In: Cult News
Choosing a Church After a Painful Experience
by
Lawrence A. Pile
Twenty years ago I left what had been a warm, exciting Christian fellowship, but which had become an authoritarian, restrictive organization. I reached this difficult decision after months of wrenching deliberation and several talks with the group’s leaders about my concerns at the direction the fellowship was taking. I had joined the movement 5½ years earlier in another city, had served as one of four leaders of a church-planting team that brought the movement to Columbus, Ohio, and had led Bible studies and held other positions of responsibility in the church. I literally had expected to remain with the movement the rest of my life. To see it degenerate was, to say the least, a disillusioning experience.
I found myself saying good-bye to men and women I had considered my brothers and sisters. I felt like a part of my soul was being cut out of me. What was I going to do now? I had developed no contingency plans to fall back on in such an unforeseen situation.
Texarkana Gazette
January 14, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Judge orders Alamo to pay $2.5 million
Each victim will receive $500,000
Tony Alamo was ordered Wednesday to pay $2.5 million to five victims who testified during his July criminal trial in Texarkana that they were forced to wed their pastor when they were children.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 14, 2010
BY ANDY DAVIS
Alamo ‘wives’ win redress
Pay 5 abused as young girls $500,000 each, judge orders
Five women who say they were taken as “wives” by evangelist Tony Alamo when they were young girls and sexually abused were awarded $500,000 each in restitution on Wednesday. The amount is less than one-fifth of what a government expert had recommended.
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Forbes.com
January 13, 2010
By JILL ZEMAN BLEED, Associated Press
Judge orders $500K for each of preacher’s victims
Five young women who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as “wives” and sexually assaulted them when they were minors are entitled to $500,000 each from his multi-million-dollar ministry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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