Prosecutors widen child sex abuse case in polygamous sect, adding child pornography charges

Published May 25, 2023 9:13 am

By SAM METZ
Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have widened their case against the leader of a small polygamous group that resides near the Utah-Arizona border, adding child pornography charges and detailing his sexual encounters with children he took as wives in new charges filed earlier this month. A federal grand jury on Wednesday issued a superseding indictment against 47-year-old Samuel Bateman. They accuse him in the indictment of making child pornography and provide new details about how he took wives as young as 9 years old as he worked to win followers to start his own small offshoot group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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