FBI: Polygamous leader had 20 wives, many of them minors abc15
FLAGSTAFF, AZ — The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show.
Bistline and Barlow are scheduled to appear in federal magistrate court in Flagstaff on Wednesday. Johnson is awaiting extradition from Washington state. Court records allege that Bateman, 46, engaged in child sex trafficking and polygamy, but none of his current charges relate to those allegations. Polygamy is illegal in Arizona but was decriminalized in Utah in 2020.
Jeffs is serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for child sex abuse related to underage marriages. Bateman often traveled to Nebraska where some of his other followers lived and internationally to Canada and Mexico for conferences.
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