Samuel Bateman took more than 20 women ... around the same time Bateman rose to power in the FLDS community. Henry said Bateman and another FLDS member named Moroni Johnson, who worked with Torrance ...

Samuel Bateman took more than 20 women and girls ... She just needs to know that.” Bistline’s father, Moroni Bistline, said outside the courtroom that Bateman punished Bistline in front of the others ...

Moretta Johnson, 21, was among the 22 "wives," including 10 minors, of Samuel Bateman, a self-professed Fundamentalist Church ...

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.” ...