# Tony, rot in hell **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947 "2017-05-05T20:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/1 "2017-05-05T20:21:25Z")
I just found out the phony “preacher” and serial child abuser Tony Alamo recently died in prison. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/disgraced-preacher-child-sex-abuser-tony-alamo-dies/2017/05/03/88c03aa4-303c-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305\_story.html?utm\_term=.99d76d827bcf](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/disgraced-preacher-child-sex-abuser-tony-alamo-dies/2017/05/03/88c03aa4-303c-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html?utm_term=.99d76d827bcf) > [@](#): > > Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher whose apocalyptic ministry grew into a multimillion-dollar network of businesses and property before he was convicted in Arkansas of sexually abusing young girls he considered his wives, has died in prison. He was 82. … > > The disgraced preacher was convicted in 2009 on charges that he took underage girls across state lines for sex, including a 9-year-old. The judge who sentenced him to the maximum 175 years in prison told him: “One day you will face a higher and a greater judge than me. May he have mercy on your soul.” … > > Witnesses in the ensuing trial said Alamo made all key decisions in the compound: who got married, what children were taught in school, who received clothes, who was allowed to eat. They said he began taking multiple wives in the early 1990s, including a 15-year-old girl in 1994, followed by increasingly younger girls. > > Alamo was convicted after five women testified they were “married” to him in secret ceremonies at his compound when they were minors — including one when she was only 8 years old — and later taken to places outside Arkansas for sex. > > “There’s no telling how many little girls’ lives he destroyed,” … > > Alamo also was accused in 1991 of child abuse after an 11-year-old boy told police he was paddled 140 times by four men on orders from Alamo in 1988 at the church’s compound in Saugus, California. … Burn in hell forever, you scumbag. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/2 "2017-05-06T00:55:49Z")
Good riddance to bad rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/3 "2017-05-06T01:44:46Z")
I was keeping the piece of shit alive in my death pool a couple years ago. Removed him and bingo. I have the power of good. In his case, I regret the absence of heaven or hell in my beliefs because he should be dancing in flames for eternity. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/4 "2017-05-06T01:57:05Z")
I just came in to say “Yeah, screw that fuckin’ tiger!” But, . . . god damn, that Alamo bastard was a monster. He lived too long on this earth, and too little of that time was spent suffering the punishment for his crimes. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/5 "2017-05-06T03:09:41Z")
I’d never heard of this. But I’ll remember the Alamo. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/6 "2017-05-06T13:52:49Z")
What was the point in taking an 9 year old across state lines for sex? It’s not going to be legal anywhere (I hope). ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/7 "2017-05-06T14:35:51Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What was the point in taking an 9 year old across state lines for sex? It’s not going to be legal anywhere (I hope). It makes it a federal crime. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/8 "2017-05-06T14:44:02Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > It makes it a federal crime. Of course. It’s just the wording from the quote: “charges that he took underage girls across state lines for sex” made it sound like it was some sort of strategic decision. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/9 "2017-05-06T14:55:09Z")
No, it’s just the official name of the action he was accused. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/10 "2017-05-06T16:31:47Z")
It’s people like him, that make me WANT hell to exist. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rot-in-hell/785947/11 "2017-05-06T22:29:46Z")
So if you want to boff children, Arkansas is not the place to do it.