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Source: NWAnews.com

State child protective services caseworkers spent Wednesday finding foster homes for the 20 children seized from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries while a search continued for other children who were missed during a sweep of Alamo properties.

The children, 11 boys and nine girls, were taken into protective custody Tuesday after Arkansas State Police officers and Department of Human Services caseworkers went to Alamo’s compound in Fouke and to more than a dozen Alamo-controlled homes and businesses in the Fort Smith area.

No children were found at those places, but 17 were found after police stopped two vans on Arkansas 245 in Texarkana, headed toward the Texas state line. Three brothers, the youngest of whom appeared to be at least 12, were taken into custody at the Juvenile Court Center in Texarkana, where they had been attending a hearing on the custody status of four girls who were taken from the compound after a raid in September.

The children taken into custody Tuesday were all between the ages of 1 and 17 and included other sibling groups, including a set of six siblings who were in the vans, Human Services Department spokesman Julie Munsell said Wednesday. All the children lived at the Fouke compound, she said.

By Wednesday afternoon, all the children’s parents had been identified, and the children were given health screenings and assessments to determine their mental health and educational needs, Munsell said. The children were then placed into foster homes across the state.

“A lot of people have responded and offered to open their homes,” Munsell said.

After the September raid, the department placed sisters in separate foster homes, saying such separations are usually made when housing siblings together would interfere with their treatment or impede an investigation.

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the way December 9, 2008

The media is trying Pastor Alamo in the newspapers.

This is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany and throughout Europe in the 1940’s, which was to constantly publish and broadcast all kinds of propaganda, slander, and lies so that the public hated them and wanted to kill them.
This was also done to Jesus with lies and false witnesses. There were thousands of people crying out, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.” Tony is not going to get a fair trial. The government through its media is conditioning everyone in the US to hate him.

The FBI is telling people, “If the child abuse charges don’t work, we’ll nail Tony with business fraud.” The government is going to great effort and expense to harass, threaten, and bribe anyone they can, in their all-out efforts to “nail Tony.” But, as Susan Alamo used to say, “They’re forgetting one thing…little ole GOD.”

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