US evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced today to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, effectively punishing him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as "brides" in his ministry.

The woman considered to be the common-law wife of US evangelist Tony Alamo told his child sex trial she thought wedding rings in his bedroom were donations to the ministry and did not notice that younger and younger girls were living with them.