Nine girls had been in child welfare custody since a September FBI raid in Colorado City, Ariz. But last Sunday, almost all of them went missing.
After federal agents descended on Colorado City in September and searched the homes of Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small new offshoot of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,The nine girls, ranging in age from 11 to 16, had been in Arizona Department of Child Safety custody since then, and had been staying in group homes in the suburbs of Phoenix.Law enforcement authorities listed eight of the nine girls as “missing juveniles” as of Nov.
But one of Bateman’s followers, a 24-year-old woman, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Mohave County jail on suspicion of kidnapping, obstructing a criminal investigation, resisting arrest and tampering with a witness. No other information was immediately available about the woman’s arrest. A family member of three of the children confirmed that the eight girls listed on Nov. 27 as missing are the same young people who were removed from their homes as part of the September raid and Bateman’s subsequent arrest, but declined to comment further.
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