Two years after his arrest, Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a polygamist sect leader who prosecutors said orchestrated the exploitation of girls, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 50 years in ...

Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 48, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in federal court for conspiracy to transport a minor for sex and conspiracy to commit kidnapping — charges he pleaded guilty to ...

Samuel Rappylee Bateman took 10 child “brides,” some as young as 9, and regularly raped them, court documents say. His followers, the girls’ fathers, allowed this abuse, according to ...

The young women once victimized by Samuel Rappylee Bateman faced him in a Phoenix courtroom for the last time Monday afternoon. “I’ll never forgive you for what you did to me,” one former child bride ...