Alamo Christian Foundation
American religious cult
The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult which was founded in 1969 by Tony Alamo and his wife, Susan Alamo. Susan Alamo died in April 1982.
After years of legal troubles during which he engaged in abusive behavior against his followers, Tony Alamo was convicted of 10 child rape offenses in 2009. He received a maximum sentence of 175 years and was imprisoned until his death in May 2017.
Founders
Tony Alamo (September 20, 1934 – May 2, 2017) was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman to a Jewish family in Joplin, Missouri. At the age of nine years old he was abandoned at the Father Flanagan Boys Town, where he claimed that he was abused on account of his Jewish ancestry. He grew up there and he went to local schools, but later, he migrated to the West Coast, where he adopted Christianity as his faith.
By the 1960s, he had settled in Hollywood, where he performed as a pop singer under the names Mark Hoffman and Marcus Abad. He was a petty criminal who was convicted of statutory rape, burglary, and theft before he was 21 years old. He also claimed to be a music promoter and owned the Little Mark, Alamo, and Talamo Records record labels.
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