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In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, lawyer Phillip E. Kuhn of Lakeland, Fla., accuses state child welfare officials of conducting a "systematic, persistent and continuous campaign of harassment and intimidation" over the church's religious views.
Kuhn asks a judge to declare the state's child seizures as unconstitutional. Kuhn also asks that a judge block a demand that families leave the church in order to regain custody of their children.
A DHS spokeswoman did not return a call for comment.
Alamo, 74, is being held pending a May 18 trial on charges he took young girls across state lines for sex.
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