Source: The Associated Press

A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses evangelist Tony Alamo of sexually abusing five girls on separate occasions beginning in 1994, including a period when he was serving a tax-evasion sentence at a halfway house in Texarkana.

The 74-year-old minister, who remains jailed while awaiting a February trial, was indicted for alleged violations of the Mann Act, a federal law that bans carrying women or girls across state lines for “prostitution or debauchery.” But each count also mentions the alleged underlying Arkansas crimes, ranging from carnal abuse to rape.

The victims were unnamed, but each was described as under age 18.

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