FBI: Girls told agent evangelist Alamo abused them

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Yahoo / AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Before evangelist Tony Alamo's arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told an FBI agent that he had sexually abused them, and one said he had threatened to have "someone take care of you" if she talked, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.

Two of the girls said Alamo married them, one at age 9 and the other at age 11, according to the affidavit unsealed Tuesday. One also allegedly said she saw photos Alamo had taken of naked girls.

Alamo, 74, who heads Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, has pleaded not guilty to 10 federal counts that accuse him of violating the Mann Act, a federal law that bans carrying women or girls across state lines for "prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." The minister has maintained that "consent is puberty" when it involves sex with young girls.

Thirty-two juveniles associated with Alamo have been taken into protective custody since a Sept. 20 raid on his compound in Fouke. Alamo was arrested in Arizona five days after the raid.

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[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I can't believe that loonie is still running around loose

He used to be married to a woman named Susan, and he kept her dead body around for some incredibly long time because he thought she was going to be resurrected. :crazy: This was back in the 1960s, so he's been a madman for a long time.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. that guy was giving me the creeps back when Susan was still alive.

This was back in Nashville in the days before cable when on Sunday morning you basically had your choice of three different religious TV shows at any given time. Eventually one of the stations started showing old Marx Brothers and Mae West movies on Sunday a.m. But I digress.

It was sort of a hoot in a strange campy way to watch the Alamos and Ernest Angeley. When Robin Williams does his crazed faith healer he is doing Ernest. But Tony and Susan were just awful. Compared to them Jan Crouch and her skinny spouse appear to be normal.

[MadMaddie]

2. This guy is Jim Jones all over again

Hiding behind religion to act out their delusions, fantasies and pure greed.

Throw him in jail and throw away the key!

[KoKo]

3. Lotta weird stuff about these "Evangelical Preachers." But, then

after seeing Sarah Palin (as a product of one of those churches) ...I'm not surprised. :-(

[liberal1973]

I agree

Throw him in jail.

[liberal1973]

5. I agree

Throw him in jail.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Fouke, Arkansas

was the setting for the movie "The Legend of Boggy Creek". Just up the road a bit from "The Town That Dreaded Sundown".

[sarcasmo]

7. Keep your kids away from these lunatics.

[superconnected]

8. ewwww 11 and 9. he's 74, eeeewwwww.

Sounds like someones going to be going to prison soon.

[PSPS]

9. I had an 11-year-old girlfriend who was quite a little hottie

I was 11 myself at the time.

[CoffeeCat]

10. "Consent is puberty"....

There are no word for the trash that this man is.

This man made his own rules--to justify molesting innocent little girls.

Now, we'll let society show him what the real rules and laws are--as he is carted
off to prison.

[tom_paine]

11. Bushies like this guy are never tougher when terrorizing the weak.

Of course, they fear anyone who might stand up against them as much as they are cruel and contemptuous of the weak, especially children who can't fight back.

Bullying the weak is one of the main tenets of Bushevism and I cannot help but think that it has soemthing top do with the large numbers of child molestors in the Bushie Upper Ranks (this is not to say that Democrats do not soemtimes do these horrible thing, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, but in the last eight years there has been a masive surge of Bushies caught in various phases of child molstation and sexual harrassment of children by Republic Bushie Courtiers which has no equal in the Democratic Upper Echelons.

There is something about Bushievism that attracts child molestors. I believe it is the core Bushpublic Tenet of bullying the weak and powerless that brings these odious felons into the Bushie fold.

[CoffeeCat]

12. Very well said...

Child molesters like to convince people that they have an "attraction" toward children. They
say they can't help it. They're trying to get their noxious behavior categorized as some kind of lifestyle
choice, when in reality, their evil acts have absolutely nothing to do with "attraction" to children.

Molesters hate children. They covet their innocence and their free spirits. These are very broken
people, who are full of self loathing, insecurity and hatred for themselves. When they see children
who are so full of life and joyful--they want to smash all of that with a hammer.

Their attraction is the high they obtain from systematically dismantling the souls of these children,
and watching them suffer.

Ask anyone who has been molested. It's not just about the molestation. It's about the terror that
these people instill. They tell the children that their parents will die, or their pets will be
killed if they tell. They also "groom" the children--systematically molesting them and giving them
candy or money afterward. Later, those things are used to psy-op these children, "Well, you took the
candy. No one will ever believe you. You were the one who let this happen. You wanted it to happen."

I've sat in support groups and listened to hundreds of stories that would blow your minds. When survivors
need to vent, it's mostly about the psychological damage that these perpetrators instill. It destroys
that free spirit, that becomes weighted down with guilt, shame and fear.

That's what the perpetrator craves. That's his goal, and yes--I see this type of powering-up on innocents
as a way of life for many with the BushCo mentality. People who are into exploiting the weak and using power
to abuse--see Bush, Cheney, et al--for what they are--just like themselves. It's not surprising that
many of them turn out to be child molesters.

And the torture that this country has instilled as a national sport--is just one big dog whistle to the molesters,
sociopaths and psychopaths of the world---that evil behavior is not only acceptable, but welcome in their
circles.

[tom_paine]

13. Very well said back at you...

I guess I never considered the vile crime of pedophilia in those terms, but it certainly makes sense and makes the pedophiles even more odious.

It also makes perfect sense if one considers it deeply. Most people, even deep thinkers, shy away from thinking about something so vile so deeply. And yet, it needs to be done by somebody. Understanding what these monsters are about may hold the key to lessening the number of child molesations, not to mention putting them behind bars punished by the FULLEST extent of the law.

But I thank you for the insight, and I think such an insight ALSO fits hand in glove with the Dishonest Shameless Bushies and the Obvious Lies They Tell.

That also makes sense. It only stands to reason that a Bushie Child Molestor would indeed ape their monstrous leaders and shameless tell-a-lie that fools no one but those who are already fools: weak-minded Bushie Fools who have already voluntarily given up their rational mind in exchange for the jazzing "Hitler-Bush Effect" of smug and cruel superiority that must give such a rush to an odious type of Hardcore Bushie the same way it fired up the Nazis.

I'd be willing to bet the Bushie Effect, as it relates to attracting bullies and child molestors to their party, is identical to the Nazi Effect, in which the Nazis almost certainly exerted a similar attraction for a similar kind of person.

Plus a change, plus a la meme chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same).