“This included the defendant having sex with Bateman in front of his child ‘brides’ so they could learn how to sexually please Bateman,” she admitted. When the FBI raided their property in ...

Moretta Johnson, 21, was among the 22 "wives," including 10 minors, of Samuel Bateman ... Johnson was underage when Bateman ...

Phoenix • She was 14 years old in 2021 when Samuel Bateman decided he ... wiped tears from their cheeks as several of Bateman’s former child brides spoke out against him in the Arizona ...

Bateman agreed to a plea deal last April where he acknowledged taking underage brides, having sex with them and arranging group sex, sometimes involving the child brides. In December, a judge ...

A man who helped imprisoned polygamist religious leader Samuel Bateman obtain children to become his "wives" has been sentenced to life in prison, according to authorities. MORE DETAILS ...

“I said that Samuel Bateman is a monster ... He had been married to a woman who later became a “bride” of Bateman. Bistline had two daughters who were 9 and 11 when he gave them to Bateman ...

The girls were just three of Bateman’s 10 child brides. “They were groomed ... down anything when kids were being hurt the way that Sam Bateman hurt kids,” said Matt Browning, who is ...

The child sex abuse case against Short Creek polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman, 48 ... Some were exceptionally young, even among child brides whose abuse in Utah's polygamous communities ...

Their audience: me. The performance was orchestrated by a man named Samuel Bateman – a man unknown to me prior to the meeting in the park. During the previous week, however, Bateman had ...

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