Leader of FLDS offshoot group who was caught transporting underage girls in news again

https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2445061

Update 1:

The involved girls disappeared from group home while in state custody, and have now been found in Spokane

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/12/02/officials-took-girls/

Update 2:

More information on Bateman
This guy may be more of a pervert than even Warren Jeffs

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/12/03/polygamous-leader-samuel-bateman/

"Samuel Bateman first said he felt prompted to take his own teenage daughter as his wife, his family later told investigators, in early 2019."

"But the next spring, Bateman began gathering young women, and then girls, and then the adult wives of his male followers as his own wives. He later directed and participated in group sex acts with them, according to accounts detailed in a federal court document filed Friday."

"In one example, Bateman told the couple that Heavenly Father had instructed him in early November 2021 to “give the most precious thing he has, his girls’ virtue,” to three of his adult male followers while he watched, according to an affidavit from Special Agent Dawn A. Martin."

"Bateman said the girls had “sacrificed their virtue for the Lord,” Martin said, noting one of the three girls he described was 12 years old at the time.

“God will fix their bodies and put the membrane back in their body. I’ve never had more confidence in doing his will. It’s all out of love,” Martin quoted Bateman."

"The eight girls recovered in Spokane are listed in the affidavit as wives of Bateman. The young woman who was with them when they were found — Moretta Rose Johnson — also became a wife of Bateman when she was under age 18, according to the affidavit."

Thr true fruits of JS and BY.

[|] Wrote:
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> This guy may be more of a pervert than even Warren
> Jeffs

That would seem to be impossible and yet he managed it.


> It’s all out of
> love,” Martin quoted Bateman."

Delusional. Depraved. Sickening.


> The true fruits of JS and BY.

Exactly.


Meanwhile. Gold-coloured statue of Smith unveiled in India to the delight of SLC bigwigs and assorted followers/admirers/members/prospective converts.

It would be good to see that whole plyg thing exposed to the world so there is no doubt about its depravity. All that money spent on buildings and statues could be put instead towards assisting the victims of Smith's negative legacy.

I wonder if an attempt was being made to smuggle the girls from Phoenix to Cranbrook, BC, which is not very far north of Spokane, and has a sizable FLDS or FLDS-derivative community.

If they could be hidden in eastern BC, which is very rural and rugged and large, they wouldn't be testifying in the US.

You mention Cranbrook.

I used to love visiting friends in Cranbrook, a nice little B.C. town.

But there is a seamy underbelly (as you know).

2018 Article re Polygamy Trial:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-b-c-men-guilty-of-polygamy-given-conditional-sentences

“CRANBROOK — Two men who took multiple wives — some as young as 15 — will serve no time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday.

“Determining a proportionate sentence is a delicate task,” [Judge] Donegan said as she delivered her decision in a Cranbrook courtroom.

“Sentences that are too lenient and sentences that are too harsh can undermine public confidence in the administration of justice,” she said.


“The court heard Blackmore married his first wife, ex-Bountiful member Jane Blackmore, in 1975 and went on to marry 24 more women in so-called celestial marriages. Nine wives were under the age of 18, and four were 15 at the time they were married, Donegan noted in her decision.

“Oler had five wives, Donegan said. One was 15, and another had just turned 17 at the time of their marriages.

“Blackmore and Oler were both raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which practises plural marriage.”


What is a proportionate sentence for child rape? Certainly not conditional sentences, no jail time.

And has anything been done to try and prevent current and future horrors from continuing for the children of Bountiful?

You know the answer.

Absolutely disgusting. Lock him up and throw away the key.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11499917/Bentley-driving-polygamist-20-wives-young-nine-FBI-alleges.html

Bentley-driving Arizona 'Mormon prophet' had TWENTY wives as young as nine including his own daughter, FBI says - and drove them around in a TRAILER with a bucket for a toilet
FBI affidavit reveals shocking allegations against polygamist sect leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46
Witnesses accuse Bateman of marrying up to 20 women and underage girls, including his own daughter
Bateman allegedly engaged in group sex acts with his followers and underage children
Though he owns two Bentleys, he is accused of transporting his 'wives' in the back of a squalid trailer


He has been in federal custody on obstruction charges since his September arrest, which unfolded after Bateman was pulled over by cops while transporting underage girls inside a squalid trailer furnished with a couch and a bucket for a toilet.

Bateman leads a splinter group of the radical Mormon offshoot Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS -- but Bateman is apparently so extreme that he has been denounced even by former FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, a convicted child rapist.

The FBI affidavit, filed in the Eastern District of Washington, outlines sickening allegations of incest, group sex acts involving adults and underage children, and child sex trafficking.

FBI Agent Dawn A. Martin, citing witness statements, writes in the filing that Bateman 'began to proclaim he was a prophet' and declared his intention to marry his own teenage daughter in 2019.

The affidavit states that Bateman has since gathered 'approximately 50 followers and more than 20 wives, many of whom are minors, mostly under the age of 15.'

Sprinkled throughout the comments to this DailyMail article are two pleas from TBMs:

1)  Stop calling us mormons!

2)  The true LDS church has nothing to do with polygamy!


I know Rusty is really concerned about the first one, but I haven't heard anything really specific from him about the second one.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> Sprinkled throughout the comments to this
> DailyMail article are two pleas from TBMs:
>
> 1)  Stop calling us mormons!
>
> 2)  The true LDS church has nothing to do with
> polygamy!
>
>
> I know Rusty is really concerned about the first
> one, but I haven't heard anything really specific
> from him about the second one.

Yep, the D&C now goes from Section 131 to 133 with 132 missing.

Hope he gets castrated in the showers while in the holding cells - and bleeds out.
Nothing but a Child Molester. No punishment is harsh enough for him and all the others who molest kids.

Nothing says Small D1ck Energy like needing to brainwash girls with God stuff to get sex.

The girls are not marrying the old geezers for love or desire, but rather because they have been conditioned to fulfill God's role told to them.

It's a dishonest and cowardly thing if a man uses religion to get laid, IMO. Even more pathetic is that the women use God stuff to manipulate men too, mostly because they often care about God more than the man they intend to marry.

He deserves a very slow and painful journey towards becoming compost. He might be useful for something then.

I can't get over that he was transporting those women, including young women, in the back of a truck like they were cattle. It reminds me of Heber C. Kimball's observation that he thought no more of taking another wife than he did if adding another cow to his herd. When will women learn?

Plus, as a friend from the midwest once noted, "Cattle are treated better than that. There are laws to protect cattle."

How does that clown get the money to have two Bentleys? Being a religious pimp must pay well. You’d think he could at least buy a decent portapottie to put in the trailer he was hauling his “wives” around in.

I'm betting welfare from many states (?) wasn't out of this picture either;

If he was 'smart' (like trump-putin) he wasn't drawing benefits himself or owning Bentleys, those things can be traced, he was sponging off of other$.

It would be lovely if he could be brought up on Federal fraud charges.

Does this mean the wives get to drive the Bentleys?