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	Former Followers React to Alamo's Conviction By Kate Luck KFSM July 25, 2009 http://www.kfsm.com/news/kfsm-news-ar-followers-react-to-conviction,0,3195663.story News of the conviction of Tony Alamo meant relief for some former followers. But some think this may just be the beginning, as more abuse is revealed and families come out of hiding. "It's a relief. It's closure for a lot of people because its justice. But I know it's gotta be only the beginning because of what is still going on there," said Carol Fryer. Fryer was a member of the church for 12 years. She says her daughter married Alamo at the age of 17 "And I remember I was sitting in an office in a woman's house and we were listening to him on the phone and he was giving us all the reasons why a girl who just came of age, 12 years old or so, to be taken as a wife," said Fryer. For Peter Laudan, he hopes the conviction will send a message to those still in the church that the Tony Alamo Ministry is no church at all. "If you could not sit in that courtroom and listen to the sincere testimony of these young women that are the age of my little daughters were molested and abused and raped. I mean, there is just no justification for that, and there is no pretext of Christianity and whatever scriptures he tried to twist to try to justify what he had done to these girls, Laudan says. Laudan and his wife were also members of the church. He left shortly after he says Alamo threatened to kick him out of the church and steal his wife And now he hopes the world sees the true Tony Alamo. "It's dirty old men perverting what once was a great church into a tool to satisfy his own lust," said Laudan.
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