A polygamist religious leader faces decades in prison in Arizona after claiming more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls.
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Authorities say that Bateman, 48, tried to start an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints based in the neighboring communities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. The fundamentalist group, also known as FLDS, split from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after Mormons officially abandoned polygamy in 1890.. Jeffs was convicted of state charges in Texas in 2011 involving sexual assaults of his underage followers.
Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly coerced underage girls into his criminal sexual activity, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona said. Recordings of some of his sex crimes were transmitted across state lines via electronic devices.. Someone had alerted authorities after spotting small fingers reaching through the slats of the door.
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