Federal authorities say polygamist “prophet” Samuel Bateman allegedly used a jailhouse phone to have “sexual discussion” with underage girls. The government estimates Bateman has roughly 50 followers and more than 20 wives, nine of whom are minors between the ages of 12 and 16. Bateman was arrested in 2022 after Arizona authorities discovered three underage girls traveling in a squalid trailer attached to the fundamentalist church leader’s pickup truck. Bateman faces trial on March 14 after pleading not guilty to federal kidnapping and tampering with evidence charges. The Law&Crime Network’s Sierra Gillespie has the latest details on this case.
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He even tricked Warren Jeffs…. 😱
This is so sad. He’s a child molester . He needs to sit on old sparky send him back to his god.
Their Mormons. Special people. Like the cult science fiction movie…. "They Live" Been to Salt Lake a couple times. You soon get a feeling that something ain't right here.
I bet he will get less time than R. Kelly 😅
This story proves what they are all about. There is no God involved.
That's just what was found. Imagine what we're missing. That's only a tiny fraction of people caught in systems like this. It's not a Christian religion it's a cult using Christianity.
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The FLDS before Warren Jeffs and his family was so much better than this, wives at age of majority etc, no group marital relations ever. Batemen and the Jeffs are just so so wrong.
11 years old it is child molestation makes me sick!!!
hes a jew, Bateman is 1oo percent a jew bag name
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Polygamy products of Islam, brought by psychos into Christianity! Didn't Mohammad married a 6 or 9 yo just like these cult members do?duh
Conservatives, this is ACTUAL grooming. Teaching children to be tolerant of trans people is not grooming.
Compost time for the lot
disgusting
Where are these kids parents? And how did he even get his hands on so many children and manage to brainwash them in to marrying him??? WTF
Surely just touching an 11 yr old is against the law.
What’s sad is these “adult” wives are what 18 maybe 19… they’ve been brainwashed by this man for who knows how long! Of course they did whatever he asked them to do! Now they get in trouble and charges against them. Imo they should be victims as well. They don’t understand that they aren’t in a healthy situation.
How do the documents say November 29 2023 ?
Clarifying here. He is NOT lds he is FLDS
Put the POS down. Those who prey on the defenceless and vulnerable have absolutely no place in society. They are the root of most of societies problems. Think about it. The cycle needs to be stopped. Full stop.
Just another religion taking advantage of others. Just as bad as all of them