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Polygamous sect leader gets 50 years in prison in scheme to orchestrate sex involving children
Headline from East Idaho News
PHOENIX (AP) — 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 fro…
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PHOENIX (AP) — 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 fro…
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 cust…
Samuel Bateman, a polygamist leader in Arizona, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts
Samuel Bateman had pleaded guilty to claiming more than 20 spiritual “wives,” including 10 underage girls, and acknowledged coercing girls as young as 9 to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults.
