GUILTY AR - Evangelist Tony Alamo's compound raided over child sex, abuse, Fouke, 2008

Kolbeck's identity was confirmed by his physical description, tattoos, and ultimately his finger prints.Police said over the past two years, Kolbeck has been posted on the television show America's Most Wanted. An arrest warrant had been issued for Kolbeck in Arkansas in 2008 in relation to beating allegations from two separate victims. Police said Kolbeck was an "enforcer" at Tony Alamo Ministries.

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lindylou said:

This is good news actually. Sounds weird saying that but he was an evil man.
I watched the AMW segment and it was sickening to watch.

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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.
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The attorney for the victims - now grown women - David Carter believes the personal injury judgment is the largest in the history of Miller County and the state of Arkansas. He also thinks he can get his clients most - if not all - of the money.

Mr Carter introduced evidence found during a search of ministry properties in Fouke, Arkansas, alleging that water rights on property Alamo holds in Santa Clarita, California, are worth several billion dollars.
Carter said he will register the judgment in California and begin proceedings to have properties in that state sold to satisfy the judgment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569424/Judge-awards-525M-evangelists-abuse-victims.html

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His name is John Erwin Kolbek. But when he had a heart attack in Lawrence County last week, his wife gave officials a fake name. Now, police know he was a wanted man with a violent past in a religious cult.

He was known to the FBI as "The Enforcer" involved in a religious cult and wanted by federal agents for the savage beating he's accused of inflicting on children and adults alike, with the use of a 6 foot long wooden stick...

According to the FBI, Kolbeck was the enforcer for Tony Alamo Ministries.

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Douglas James Christopher, 60, was sentenced in federal court to life in prison without parole, according to U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge’s office. Prosecutors said Christopher transported a minor across state lines for sexual purposes while factions of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries were being sought by federal authorities...

Beginning in 2003, Christopher began transporting the minor, whose mother he had married in 2000, from the family’s home in Oklahoma to a location in Fort Smith under the control of the Alamo group, according to Eldridge’s office. Christopher had sex with the minor in a van at the location, prosecutors said.

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Seven women who were physically, sexually and psychologically abused by an evangelical preacher have been granted over half a billion dollars in reparations by an Arkansas judge.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that Miller County Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson awarded $525 million to the victims in actual and punitive damages...

The compensation for each victim ranges from $10 million to $29 million. One of the women says she was raped by Alamo from the time she was 9 years old until she escaped the ministry at age 15. Alamo was convicted in 2009 for abusing the women and is currently serving a 175-year prison sentence.

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An Arkansas judge has awarded seven women physically and sexually abused by evangelist Tony Alamo another $525 million, pushing the total owed by the imprisoned preacher and an affiliated church to more than $1 billion.

Miller County Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson entered a default judgment Thursday ordering Alamo to match the $525 million already owed by Twenty First Century Holiness Tabernacle Church for actual and punitive damages. No one showed up in court Thursday to defend the preacher...

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An auction in Miller County is held to sell property of a self-proclaimed prophet and help satisfy a court judgment. Proceeds from the sale will be given to the victims whom Tony Alamo was convicted of abusing... Alamo also owes money to two men who were beaten, starved and denied education while being raised in the ministry...

Five Alamo properties were sold in the auction. All of the Fouke properties sold for about $75,000. It included the church complex, Alamo's home, a church gymnasium and a building known as the "house of scorn" where girls were allegedly forced to fast.

David Carter, attorney for two of the abused boys, says it hasn't been easy to get the money from Alamo, since none of the ministries properties were in his name. On top of that, he says Alamo followers gutted the buildings.

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