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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — State officials on Tuesday took into protective custody 21 children associated with an evangelical group whose founder faces federal child- sex charges.
The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a September raid of Alamo’s compound in Fouke, in southwest Arkansas. The court order cites allegations of neglect and physical abuse as the reason for the seizures.
On Monday, a 14-year-old girl taken by the state during the September raid testified that Alamo molested her, counted a number of young girls as his wives and coached her and others to say they weren’t touched improperly or beaten.
