Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, a leader of a polygamist cult-like branch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purportedly had over 20 wives, a number of them children, an FBI affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Washington indicated
The wives included one of his own daughters, as reported by the Washington Post.
He was reported to have engaged in group sex with some of the girls and watched other men sexually abuse and assault them. These girls were as young as 12, according to the FBI affidavit.
Bateman said God has instructed him to “give the most precious thing he has, his girls’ virtue,” to a handful of adult men while he watched, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. He was also quoted as saying, “God will fix their bodies and put the membrane back in their body. I’ve never had more confidence in doing his will. It’s all out of love.”
Cult leader polygamist
Bateman was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — a polygamist branch of the mainstream Church — and ultimately started his own faction.
He ostensibly began discovering polygamy in 2019. In the FBI affidavit, it was indicated that during that year, while riding in a car with his 14-year-old daughter, Bateman told her he wanted to have a child with her and make her his wife. He allegedly “bribed” the girls with $50 and a bag of Doritos.
Scared by what her father has said to her, the girl reported the conversation to investigators. Bateman’s wife at that time took the girl from the home and filed a restraining order against her husband.
Bateman has been in jail since September when FBI agents raided his Arizona home looking for evidence of marriages or sex between children and adults, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
He was charged with 3 counts of child abuse in Arizona and is separately charged with destroying evidence after he allegedly removed some electronic communication from his cell phone.
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