Samuel Bateman gets 50 years in prison after admitting he sexually abused his child ‘wives’ in FLDS offshoot The 48-year-old man rose to power among several polygamous families in 2019 after ...

Samuel Bateman, a leader of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Monday in a case that involved the transportation and ...

Phoenix • She was 14 years old in 2021 when Samuel Bateman decided he wanted her as a wife — and the self-proclaimed prophet took her as one of 20 women and girls he “spiritually married.” ...

Samuel Bateman, 48, was sentenced for coercing girls as young as nine years old to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody.

Two years after his arrest, Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a polygamist sect leader who prosecutors said orchestrated the exploitation of girls, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 50 years in ...

Two years after his arrest, Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a polygamist sect leader who prosecutors said orchestrated the exploitation of girls, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 50 years in ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The sentencing date for offshoot polygamous leader and self-proclaimed FLDS prophet Samuel Bateman, originally scheduled for August 30, 2024, has been pushed back to October.

Self-proclaimed FLDS prophet Samuel Bateman awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to sex trafficking. Arizona's Family. Sam Bateman, Mike Watkiss & The Queen of England.

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison. Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once ...

Samuel Bateman, a leader of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Monday in a case that involved the transportation and ...