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 ...

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, of Phoenix, Arizona has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for allegedly coercing girls as young as nine years old into criminal sex acts with him and other adults ...

Polygamist sect leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman 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 ...

Samuel Rappylee Bateman was sentenced to 50 years in prison for conspiracy to transport a minor for sex and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. According to an FBI affidavit, Bateman had more than 20 ...

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 ...

Two of the women tied to northern Arizona polygamist sect leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman will return to federal court for a joint preliminary hearing in Flagstaff on Thursday.

Brothers LaDell and Torrance Bistline are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church that still practices polygamy, and, according to ...

Samuel Rappylee Bateman was sentenced to 50 years in prison for conspiracy to transport a minor for sex and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.