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.” ...

A Utah polygamist and self-proclaimed prophet who "spiritually married" 20 brides, including girls as young as 9-years-old, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday. Samuel Bateman rose to ...

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 ...

Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, had pleaded guilty to a years-long ...

Samuel Bateman took more than 20 women and girls as spiritual wives from 2019 to 2022, leveraging his status as the leader of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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 took more than 20 women and girls as spiritual wives from 2019 to 2022, leveraging his status as the leader of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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

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 ...

The child sex abuse case against Short Creek polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman ... was convicted of abusing girls as ...

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison. Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once ...