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Associated Press - November 18, 2009 10:44 AM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Court of Appeals has ruled that state child-welfare officials properly seized children from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries after a police raid.
The appeals court issued three opinions Wednesday dealing with child-welfare officials' actions after a September 2008 raid at Alamo's compound. In one ruling, Judge Robert J. Gladwin wrote that testimony at hearings about the seizures showed "a clear picture of danger to the children in the ministry compound at Fouke."
Gladwin added that judges had "no hesitation" in affirming the lower court's decision to allow the child seizures.
Alamo was sentenced to 175 years in federal prison last week after being convicted of a 10-count indictment accusing him of taking young girls across state lines for sex.
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