Evangelist Who Took Child `Brides' Is Sentenced to 175 Years

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Evangelist Who Took Child `Brides' Is Sentenced to 175 Years - November 13, 2009 TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - Tony Alamo, an evangelist, was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking under-age girls across state lines for sex. Mr. Alamo, 75, was convicted in July on a 10-count federal indictment. Judge Harry F. Barnes of Federal District Court said Mr. Alamo had abused his status as father figure and pastor and threatened the girls with "the loss of their salvation."....A woman Mr. Alamo took as a child "bride" at age 8 challenged him from the witness stand on Friday to submit himself to God's judgment. Reading from lined notebook paper, she said Mr. Alamo had torn her family apart and described how she shook uncontrollably when he first molested her. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/us/14alamo.html