According to accounts detailed in a federal court document, Samuel Bateman began gathering young women, and then girls, and then the adult wives of his male followers as his own wives - and later directed and participated in group sex acts with them.
Samuel Bateman first said he felt prompted to take his own teenage daughter as his wife, his family later told investigators, in early 2019.
Some of the descriptions are from Bateman, the document said, drawn from recordings made by a Colorado City woman who helps members of the polygamy community and her husband, who was filming a documentary. “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 Arizona-Utah state line at the border of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Ariz., before sunrise on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. The twin towns, known collectively as Short Creek, are the traditional home base of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Members of the group that began following him told The Tribune that in 2019, Bateman joined a group of FLDS people who had moved to Nebraska for work.
Johnson gave birth seven months after she turned 18, indicating the baby was likely conceived when she was 17, Martin noted. Johnson is accused of kidnapping in a federal complaint that also accuses two other women of kidnapping. J.J. also told Martin that Bateman described directing an adult male follower to have sex with a girl in the November 2021 gathering that followers later referred to the “Atonement,” the affidavit said.People in Colorado City began contacting law enforcement about Bateman in November 2020, Martin said in the affidavit.
Later on Nov. 24, 2020, the grandmother called the Iron County Sheriff’s Office to allege Bateman was kidnapping her grandchildren. An officer “stopped Bateman, detained him, and interviewed all the adult occupants of the vehicle” he was in, including the mother of the two grandchildren. Around that same time, in about November or December 2020, Bateman drove to the Colorado City couple’s home “in a large SUV packed with women and girls,” Martin wrote, adding that “Bateman introduced everyone as his wives.” The youngest was the girl born in 2011, she wrote.
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