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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after his arrest, Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a polygamist sect leader who prosecutors said orchestrated the ...

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

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.

Religious sect leader Samuel Bateman, 48, started an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and used his role to coerce girls as young as nine to commit ...

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 ...