When his first child died less than a day after birth, a grieving father was reportedly told by Tony Alamo that God was punishing him.

“Tony said the Lord killed my son because I was meddling in his business,” the former Tony Alamo Christian Ministries member said. “I know he’d be alive if we’d just had some prenatal care or gone to a hospital.”

He was 21 when he married a 14-year-old girl.

The baby’s mother, now 26, said she didn’t know something was wrong when she didn’t give birth for nearly four days after her water broke.

“The midwife said ...

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