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 […]

Polygamous leader used jail phone to inappropriately communicate with kids, court docs say

a Arizona’s ‘self-proclaimed prophet’ with over 20 wivesIncluding minors, according to federal court documents. Prosecutors allege Samuel Rappery Bateman, leader of a Fundamental Church chapter of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, repeatedly abused phone privileges at the Core Civic/Central Arizona Florence Correctional Facility are doing. Arrested in September for destroying records related […]