Samuel Bateman was sentenced to prison in Arizona after claiming more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls.

Bateman led a small group which was an offshoot of the FLDS sect once led by Warren Jeffs who was the subject of a 2022 Netflix documentary.

A polygamist leader in Arizona has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Samuel Bateman had pleaded guilty to claiming more ...

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Samuel Bateman, who is the leader of a polygamist sect out of the Arizona and Utah border, is set to be sentenced months ...

Polygamist leader with 20 ‘wives’ faces sentencing for child sex crimes - Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, ...

Between the lines: Arizona has a bigamy statute prohibiting someone from entering into a legal marriage with more than one ...

Only a few dozen of them, she said, left polygamy. Her organization helped ... on a photography day trip with her and her husband to a Utah ghost town if he would have to pay for anything.

Polygamist Tom Green was today celebrating the birth of his 30th child as prosecutors finished presenting evidence against him on charges of bigamy and benefit fraud in the Mormon state of Utah.

Just before the sentencing, The Salt Lake Tribune published a special two-part story on how a Utah couple helped bring Bateman to justice. That story is now the subject of an episode of RadioWest ...

Utah. The fundamentalist group, also known as FLDS, split from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after Mormons officially abandoned polygamy in 1890. The alleged practice ...

Samuel Bateman took at least 10 underage girls and coerced them into sexual acts under the guise of spiritual "marriages." ...