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	Hearing Set on Leak of Video in Alamo Case Associated Press, carried in WXVT January 6, 2009 http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9623630&nav=menu1344_2 EXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - A judge has set a hearing for Thursday to address the leak of a confidential videotape of an interview of a girl taken into state custody after a raid on the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in Fouke. The Arkansas Department of Human Services wants Circuit Judge Jim Hudson to order that the video be removed from an Internet site. The girl's parents posted the video, which was supposed to be kept confidential. The video shows an exchange conducted by a forensic interviewer in Texarkana with a 16-year-old girl the day after she was taken into state custody. Six children were taken by the state the day of the Sept. 20 raid and a total of 36 are now in state custody. Alamo has since been charged in a 10-count federal indictment with taking juveniles across state lines for sex. In the video, the girl speaks well of her treatment in Alamo's ministry and says that at puberty young girls should be permitted to wed instead of "fornicate."
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