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, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, had pleaded guilty to a yearslong scheme to transport girls across state lines for his sex crimes ...

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. Bateman led ...

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.

Moroni Johnson was sentenced to 25 years for criminal activity connected with cult leader Samuel Bateman. Johnson's daughters testified about the abuse and manipulation they endured. The judge ...

The cases all involve trafficking child brides as young as nine years old. The last follower of Samuel Bateman, Torrance Bistline, was sentenced to 35 years for his role in what prosecutors called ...

Prosecutors said Bistline was the main financier of cult leader Samuel Bateman. He was accused at trial of raping an underage girl and watching videos of Bateman sexually abusing women and children.