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Related: About this forumPolygamist leader claimed 20 'wives,' including minors, FBI says
Wedding cake? This guy needs a wedding bakery.
Polygamist leader claimed 20 wives, including minors, FBI says
By Marisa Iati
December 5, 2022 at 7:35 p.m. EST
Family and followers of Samuel Bateman gather around as he calls from police custody after he was arrested in September in Arizona. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
The self-proclaimed prophet claimed it was impressions of Heavenly Fathers will that spurred him to force his followers, including children, to engage in sexual acts, according to new allegations from the FBI. ...Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a leader of an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, allegedly counted his own daughter and other juvenile girls among his more than 20 wives. Many of them were younger than 15, an FBI agent wrote in a court document filed Friday.
Batemans alleged foray into polygamy began in 2019, when he was married to one woman and had a daughter who was roughly 14. While in the car one day, the daughter later told investigators, Bateman said that he felt like she was his wife and that he would make her have a child if his feelings turned out to be right.
When Bateman told his actual wife, she moved out of their home with their daughter and got a restraining order against him, according to the court filing, previously reported by the Salt Lake Tribune. But Bateman allegedly continued to tell his daughter that he wanted to kiss and touch her. From then on, the FBI agent wrote, he accumulated wives.
Bateman, 46, is in federal custody in Arizona on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly asking followers to delete his Signal phone app, which he used to communicate with them and his wives. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge and to state-level child abuse charges. ... Bateman has not been charged with sex crimes, although the FBI agent said there is probable cause to believe that he engaged in criminal sexual activity with minors in 2020 and 2021. His attorneys did not respond to a message seeking comment Monday.
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By Marisa Iati
Marisa Iati is a reporter on the general assignment desk at The Washington Post. She previously worked at the Star-Ledger and NJ.com in New Jersey, where she covered municipal mayhem, community issues, education and crime. Twitter https://twitter.com/marisa_iati
By Marisa Iati
December 5, 2022 at 7:35 p.m. EST
Family and followers of Samuel Bateman gather around as he calls from police custody after he was arrested in September in Arizona. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
The self-proclaimed prophet claimed it was impressions of Heavenly Fathers will that spurred him to force his followers, including children, to engage in sexual acts, according to new allegations from the FBI. ...Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a leader of an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, allegedly counted his own daughter and other juvenile girls among his more than 20 wives. Many of them were younger than 15, an FBI agent wrote in a court document filed Friday.
Batemans alleged foray into polygamy began in 2019, when he was married to one woman and had a daughter who was roughly 14. While in the car one day, the daughter later told investigators, Bateman said that he felt like she was his wife and that he would make her have a child if his feelings turned out to be right.
When Bateman told his actual wife, she moved out of their home with their daughter and got a restraining order against him, according to the court filing, previously reported by the Salt Lake Tribune. But Bateman allegedly continued to tell his daughter that he wanted to kiss and touch her. From then on, the FBI agent wrote, he accumulated wives.
Bateman, 46, is in federal custody in Arizona on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly asking followers to delete his Signal phone app, which he used to communicate with them and his wives. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge and to state-level child abuse charges. ... Bateman has not been charged with sex crimes, although the FBI agent said there is probable cause to believe that he engaged in criminal sexual activity with minors in 2020 and 2021. His attorneys did not respond to a message seeking comment Monday.
{snip}
By Marisa Iati
Marisa Iati is a reporter on the general assignment desk at The Washington Post. She previously worked at the Star-Ledger and NJ.com in New Jersey, where she covered municipal mayhem, community issues, education and crime. Twitter https://twitter.com/marisa_iati
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Polygamist leader claimed 20 'wives,' including minors, FBI says (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2022
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He told his 14 year old daughter he planned to impregnate her!! Somehow that has been
Scrivener7
Dec 2022
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Scrivener7
(52,725 posts)1. He told his 14 year old daughter he planned to impregnate her!! Somehow that has been
lost in all the headlines.
That's a Kingston Clan polygamous Mormon thing. They think their bloodline is too pure to share with anyone outside the family.
And PS: His "Heavenly Father" must be one sick fuck.
NQAS
(10,749 posts)2. I bet
That the anti LGBTQ baker on Colorado would make 20 polygamy cakes for free. Values, hey?
brewens
(15,359 posts)3. No surprise. It's a cult founded by a child rapist. Smith had a 14-year-old girl they claim
was a wife. They give you some little house on the prairie bullshit to justify that crap when it was nothing more than a pervert with power over people wanting to rape young girls.
Scrivener7
(52,725 posts)5. So creepy. And that church is still growing.
The rate of growth has slowed, but it's still growing.