(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Girls huddle together before being removed from the home of Samuel Bateman by the Arizona Department of Child Safety, in Colorado City, Ariz., on Wednesday ...

The eight girls recovered in Spokane are listed in the affidavit as wives of Bateman. The young woman who was with them when they were found — Moretta Rose Johnson — also became a wife of ...

All 11 women and girls had been taken as wives, the FBI alleges, by self-proclaimed prophet Samuel Bateman, as he led a small offshoot of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Sam Bateman, an imprisoned polygamous leader in Arizona, allegedly helped orchestrate the escape of eight underage girls he considered to be his wives from foster placement.

Prosecutors allege that Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border, helped orchestrate the escape of eight girls he considered his wives.

When polygamist Samuel Bateman appears in Coconino Superior Court Friday afternoon for a detention hearing, the leader of a splinter faction of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ...

Samuel Bateman is a self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. ... Bateman’s wives are mostly girls under 15. Coconino County Superior Court.

Samuel Bateman, an Arizona man who is the leader of a polygamous group in Arizona, was charged after being stopped on a highway with three young girls in an enclosed trailer.

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 ...

Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, was first jailed in August when authorities found three underage girls locked inside a trailer he was towing near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Samuel Bateman, an Arizona polygamist sect leader, pled guilty to two felony counts in federal court. He was initally changed with more than 50.

Mr Bateman filled a power vacuum in the secretive religious community, which allegedly led to the sex trafficking of minors and obstruction of justice charges.