Sentencing Set for Polygamous Leader Bateman in Arizona
Samuel Bateman, a polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal sentence for sex involving children, is set to be sentenced on separate state convictions for hauling three girls in an unventilated Flagstaff trailer; each count carries a four-to-eight-year term with the judge deciding whether to run them consecutively or concurrently. The case notes the girls, aged 11 to 14, were found with a makeshift setup in the trailer and Bateman has claimed to have more than 20 spiritual wives, linking him to the Warren Jeffs-founded group.
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About Warren Jeffs
Warren Steed Jeffs is an American cult leader and convicted child sex offender. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona and is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault after two convictions in 2011. The FLDS Church was founded in the early 20th century when its founders deemed the renunciation of polygamy by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be apostasy. The mainstream LDS Church disavows any connection between it and the FLDS Church, although there are significant historical ties.
Everything about Warren Jeffs →- Occupation
- cult leader, accountant, religious leader, prophet
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 3, 1955