In the first testimony released by a Chicago-based public relations firm, Ryan-Marie Houck reaffirmed what she told LifeSiteNews the day of the raid regarding the arrival of around 15 law enforcement vehicles at the family's property shortly after 7 a.m. with 20 to 30 agents swarming their yard with rifles in firing position.

"They were running all around the property and getting behind cars and doors," she said. "Once I had gone downstairs, I could see that they were around the side of my house and everything, heavily armed [with] shields, helmets, vests, and big, huge, long rifle-type guns."

Some agents began violently pounding on the front door, demanding it be opened or they would bust it down.

Though Mark attempted to calm the agents due to the presence of his seven children, ages 13 and younger, they continued yelling. When he opened the door, "immediately, there's guns pointed at him, a gun pointed at me on the staircase, and then another gun over our threshold kind of scanning the home. Our children were right there," Ryan-Marie explained. "So, essentially, they had guns pointed at [the children]. It's hard to even wrap my mind still around that thought."

"So, it's terrifying. The children are screaming and crying," she described. "You just figure like one move from a four-year-old and something tragic could have happened."

At this point, "they just immediately grab [Mark] and handcuff him," she recalled. And after she deanded a warrant and they indicated they were taking him with or without a warrant, then later relented, Mark asked his wife to get him a sweatshirt, his rosaries, socks and appropriate undergarments.

"It was very, very cold, and Mark had just woken up. So he was just in shorts and a T-shirt, downstairs [wearing] no shoes or socks," Ryan-Marie explained... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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