"Evangelist gets 175 years for sex crimes" by Associated Press | November 14, 2009
Tony Alamo answered questions from reporters yesterday outside the courthouse in downtown Texarkana, Ark. (Evan Lewis/ The Texarkana Gazette via Associated Press)
TEXARKANA, Ark. - Evangelist Tony Alamo used his stature as a self-proclaimed prophet to force underage girls into sham marriages with him, controlling his followers with their fears of eternal suffering. The judge who sentenced Alamo yesterday to 175 years in prison for child sex abuse warned of another kind of justice awaiting the evangelist.
“Mr. Alamo, one day you will face a higher and a greater judge than me,’’ said US District Judge Harry F. Barnes. “May he have mercy on your soul.’’
Three of the five victims spoke in court yesterday about how Alamo stole their childhoods and tore apart their families to satisfy his sexual perversions. Barnes leveled the maximum sentence against the 75-year-old....
I think I'm going to be sick.
FLASHBACK:
Sandy Buchanan (left) and Dana Richardson waved to the bus carrying the jury yesterday after evangelist Tony Alamo’s conviction on 10 accounts of sex abuse in Texarkana, Ark. (Evan Lewis/Texarkana Gazette via Associated Press)
"Shouts of “Bye, bye, Bernie’’ - Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman - came from a crowd gathered on the Arkansas side of the courthouse, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas border."
Oh, he's gonna find out the meaning of that word.
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