Samuel Bateman, the leader of a polygamous splinter group on the Utah-Arizona border, has now been charged with 51 felonies — which, for the first time, include counts for sexually abusing the ...

Three girls embrace before they are removed from the home of Samuel Bateman, following his arrest in Colorado City, Ariz., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP ...

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three girls embrace before they are removed from the home of Samuel Bateman, following his arrest in Colorado City, Ariz., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022.

Sam Bateman: Who is the ... Mr Bateman allegedly also forced girls to stand naked and watch him undertake something called the "binding of brothers," in which he had sex with another male member ...

(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 ...

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.” ...

(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 ...

In addition to Samuel Bateman, who else was arrested? Bateman was the first person charged in connection with his sect's abuse of girls. Subsequently, seven of his followers were also charged by ...

Arizona authorities took nine girls on Wednesday from homes belonging to Samuel Bateman after federal authorities served search warrants seeking evidence of alleged underage marriages. Bateman is ...

At his sentencing, U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich called Bateman, 48, "the worst kind of abuser." “With respect to the minor girls, you took them from their homes, from their families, and ...