Polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman, shown in an undated law enforcement photo, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for coercing girls as young as 9 to submit to sex acts. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly coerced underage girls into his criminal sexual activity, the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona said. Seven of …
LOADING ERROR LOADING PHOENIX — A polygamous religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives ” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison at his sentencing on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and …
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PHOENIX — A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody. Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, …
