Moretta Johnson was a minor when Samuel Bateman took her as a “bride.” She pleaded guilty in connection with the kidnapping ...

PHOENIX (CN) — The mother of two underage girls married to religious leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman testified ... married them and began having sex with them. Bateman married his first child bride, ...

Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court ... In pleading guilty, Bateman acknowledged taking underage brides, having sex activity with them and arranging group sex, ...

Moretta Johnson, 21, was among the 22 "wives," including 10 minors, of Samuel Bateman, a self-professed Fundamentalist ... According to court records, Johnson was underage when Bateman took her as a ...