UNITED STATES
Daily Mail (UK)
By MICHAEL ZENNIE and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
27 February 2014
Half a billion dollars in damages have been awarded to seven women who were raped and beaten for years by a pedophile televangelist who took them as his ‘child brides.’
They are the victims of Tony Alamo – a charismatic Pentecostal preacher whose massive Alamo Ministries has been branded a polygamist cult.
The women described being repeatedly molested and sexually abused, some starting at age 9, by Alamo.
Despite serving a 175-year prison sentence for rape and child sex trafficking, Alamo and his ministry are believed to have billions of dollars in assets, mostly water rights in California.
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