Texarkana Gazette
August 21, 2013
By Lynn LaRowe Best – Texarkana Gazette

Hearing expected to focus on Tony Alamo properties

A federal judge is expected to address motions concerning properties associated with Tony Alamo at a hearing early next month. In July, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant scheduled a hearing to address a writ of execution he signed previously giving the go-ahead to sell six properties to partially satisfy a $30 million judgment owed by Alamo to two men raised in Alamo’s controversial ministry.

Spencer Ondrisek and Seth Calagna are owed $3 million each in actual damages and $12 million each in punitive damages. Alamo is serving a 175-year federal prison sentence for bringing five women he wed as children across state lines for sex.

Read the rest of this article »

Texarkana Gazette
August 15, 2013
By: Jim Williamson – Texarkana Gazette

Former Tony Alamo follower pleads guilty to sexual abuse of a minor

A former Tony Alamo follower described as “engaged in horrendous conduct involving sexual abuse of a minor child” pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday.

Read the rest of this article »

Texarkana Gazette
August 14, 2013
By: Lynn LaRowe Best – Texarkana Gazette

Man to enter guilty plea in sex abuse case

A former Tony Alamo follower is scheduled to enter a guilty plea to child sex abuse charges this morning in a federal courtroom in Fort Smith, Ark.

Read the rest of this article »

The Republic
August 14, 2013
The Associated Press

http://m.therepublic.com/view/story/148daf88c399479582a49e412e0a0045/AR–Evangelist-Child-Abuse-Ministry