Biography
Mario Ivan Leyva, Jr. was born in Fletcher, North Carolina in May 1946. "Tony," as he came to be called, was a victim of child molestation himself. As publicly stated, he was molested once during kindergarten and again when he was 14 on a baseball field near his high school. As a child, he enjoyed visiting his grandparents in Flat Rock, North Carolina, and came to live there in his late childhood. He became a Pentecostal preacher at age 17, and married his childhood sweetheart, Tammy Sue.
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