Child trafficking case: Bateman requests restoration of phone privileges as trial nears | Local News Stories
The self-proclaimed Bible prophet, from northern Mojave County, is scheduled to attend a status conference next week as he awaits trial in federal district court on dozens of federal charges, including child sex trafficking and kidnapping. Samuel R. Bateman, 46, of Colorado, has been in custody in an Arizona prison facility since being arrested by […]
Net widens as federal agents arrest multiple alleged co-conspirators in Samuel Bateman case – St George News
FILE – FBI agents raided Sam Bateman’s home in Colorado City, Arizona on Tuesday, September 13, 2022.Photo Credit: Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune, via Associated Press, St. George News ST. George — Several followers of Samuel Rappery Bateman, leader of the polygamous, fundamentalist sect of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in Colorado, […]
FLDS leader Samuel Bateman, 10 others indicted in AZ sex crimes case
A new 53 felony federal indictment against the Arizona-based polygamous fundamentalist cult and its leader Samuel Bateman has revealed puzzling new details. The Arizona Federal Attorney’s Office currently has Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet of the splinter group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 10 others sexually assault nine girls ages […]
Federal agents arrest another alleged co-conspirator in Samuel Bateman case – St George News
In this file photo, the FBI issued a search warrant on property owned by FLDS sect leader Samuel Bateman on September 13, 2022 in Colorado, Arizona. Photo contributed, St. George News st. George — A 22-year-old woman accused of sending threatening emails to the Arizona Department of Child Services is linked to a federal lawsuit […]
Samuel Bateman used jail phone to inappropriately communicate with kids, court docs say
Arizona ‘self-proclaimed prophet’ with more than 20 wives, including minors, accused of blackmailing government witnesses and using prison phones to have ‘overtly sexual conversations’ with children has been indicted, federal court documents say. Prosecutors allege Samuel Rappery Bateman, leader of a Fundamental Church chapter of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, repeatedly abused […]
Sam Bateman had sexual chats with children from jail: Feds
Accused polygamy cult leader Sam Bateman (screenshot courtesy of Law&Crime Network) Polygamous cult leader Sam Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet awaiting trial on kidnapping and other charges, “brazenly” used the prison’s telephone system to “sexually abuse his children and We had a great discussion,” the federal prosecutor said. One of the girls, identified as “Jane Doe […]
