Alamo convicted
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Alamo, 75, gets 175 years
Evangelist ‘wed’ girls young as 8
Posted: November 14, 2009 at 8:20 a.m.
FILE — Tony Alamo answers questions from reporters Friday, November 13, 2009 outside the federal courthouse in Texarkana after he was sentenced to the maximum of 175 years for transporting girls across state lines for sex.
A judge Friday sentenced evangelist Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison, saying it was “hard to imagine” the damage inflicted on the young girls the preacher took as “wives” and kept under his strict control.
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