LaDell Bistline had the girls and women. Torrance Bistline had the money,” federal prosecutor Dimitra Sampson said of two of ...

The last follower of Samuel Bateman was sentenced to 35 years for his role in what prosecutors called a sex trafficking ...

Torrance Bistline, a follower of the self-proclaimed Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prophet ...

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.

The founder of a Utah equipment manufacturer that generated an estimated $2 million in annual revenue was scheduled to be sentenced April 28 for aiding self-proclaimed cult leader Samuel Bateman ...