A new 51-count indictment filed court reveals the lurid new allegations against Samuel Rappylee Bateman who claimed in 2019 to be the successor to Warren Jeffs, the former leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
, the former leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist sect. Jeffs—known to followers as “Uncle Warren”—is currently serving life in prison for child sexual assault, after 12 of his 78 “wives” were revealed to be under the age of 15.
As his following grew, prosecutors say, Bateman began to take multiple adult wives. Then, he began to demand his followers give him their underage daughters as wives, according to court documents. Bateman eventually “married” ten underage girls, prosecutors say. On one occasion, Bateman drank wine and had sex with a male follower, Moroni Johnson, in a motel room in Lincoln, Nebraska, in front of his underage wives, previous court documents allege, some of whom were Johnson’s own daughters. The FBI said the women and girls were required to stand naked and watch the “binding of brothers.”
Residents of Short Creek reported Bateman to the authorities multiple times between 2020 and 2022, according to reporting by the. Federal agents searched his home looking for evidence that he was taking multiple wives or sexually abusing minors, according to the paper.
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