Polygamous sect leader serving 50 years for child sex abuse gets another 24 years
Samuel Bateman, 50, is convicted of three state child abuse counts after previous conviction on federal counts
TL;DR
- Samuel Bateman, a polygamous sect leader, received a 24-year state sentence for child abuse.
- This sentence will be served after his current 50-year federal sentence for sex offenses involving children.
- The state charges involved confining three girls, aged 11-14, in an unventilated trailer.
- Bateman was convicted of three child abuse counts related to this incident.
- Victims testified about the psychological pain and the sexual exploitation they suffered from Bateman.
- Bateman's sect was an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Bateman is described as a self-proclaimed prophet who practiced polygamy.