FBI, Calif child services visited Alamo compound

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- California social workers and FBI agents were investigating possible abuse of children at a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries facility in that state just after authorities raided one of the evangelist's two Arkansas compounds, officials said Thursday. Louise Grasmehr, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, said social workers took no children into custody at the compound near Santa Clarita, Calif. Investigators arrived in the early morning hours of Sept. 21 to find only a few adults and a 14-year-old boy, she said. "We did interview him and we found there was nothing going on with him - no signs of abuse or neglect," Grasmehr said. State officials left the child in the custody of his father, who was also there at the... [read full story]