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Sep 20, 8:57 PM EDT
Arkansas compound raided in child porn case
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer
FOUKE, Ark. (AP) -- FBI agents and state police raided an evangelist's headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation, and social workers interviewed children who live at the complex in southwestern Arkansas to find out whether they were abused.
The raid at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries south of Texarkana started an hour before sunset, but state police said no one was arrested. Armed guards regularly patrol the headquarters of the group - which critics call a cult - but there was no resistance as agents moved in, state police said.
Tom Browne, who runs the FBI office in Little Rock, said the investigation involved the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of children across state lines for criminal activity.
"Children living at the facility may have been sexually and physically abused," Browne said.
Alamo (the Televangelist) told the AP on Saturday that he believed the raid was part of a push by the federal government to make same-sex marriage legal while outlawing polygamy.
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Arkansas compound raided in child porn case
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer
FOUKE, Ark. (AP) -- FBI agents and state police raided an evangelist's headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation, and social workers interviewed children who live at the complex in southwestern Arkansas to find out whether they were abused.
The raid at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries south of Texarkana started an hour before sunset, but state police said no one was arrested. Armed guards regularly patrol the headquarters of the group - which critics call a cult - but there was no resistance as agents moved in, state police said.
Tom Browne, who runs the FBI office in Little Rock, said the investigation involved the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of children across state lines for criminal activity.
"Children living at the facility may have been sexually and physically abused," Browne said.
Alamo (the Televangelist) told the AP on Saturday that he believed the raid was part of a push by the federal government to make same-sex marriage legal while outlawing polygamy.
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