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.” ...

Initially charged with over 50 felony counts, a self-proclaimed polygamist sect leader based near the Utah-Arizona border pled guilty to one count of transporting underage girls for sex and one ...

Samuel Bateman. Some in the group also have admitted in federal court papers to orchestrating a plan to kidnap the girls from Arizona child protective custody in November 2022, after federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man who helped imprisoned polygamist religious leader Samuel Bateman obtain ... others worked to find children for Bateman to sexually abuse. At least 10 girls were victimized "in a years ...

They’re in school; they have all decided they do not believe in Sam Bateman anymore, and they want to live their own life,” said Faith Bistline, who now helps care for the girls. Detective ...

learned he’ll spend decades in prison for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults. A judge sentenced Samuel Bateman on Monday to a maximum ...

Moretta Johnson, 21, was among the 22 "wives," including 10 minors, of Samuel Bateman ... in your inbox each morning. Several ...

I know the way these cults go—this is the end result. Because of the girls discovered in the trailer, Sam Bateman was busted on child endangerment charges. While in the Coconino County jail ...

The child sex abuse case against Short Creek polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman ... was convicted of abusing girls as young as 12. Context: Bateman admitted to coercing girls to perform ...