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False Prophet sect leader who featured in Netflix documentary jailed for extra 24 years

Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet, previously claimed to have more than 20 ‘spiritual wives’

The Independent UK

Polygamous leader featured in Netflix series faces sentencing after girls rescued from trailer

He was one of the trusted followers of Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexual assault of children

The Independent UK

‘When I watched the girls loving this man, I felt sick’: the woman who exposed a polygamous paedophile

Without Christine Marie, Samuel Bateman might never have been jailed for his crimes among the Mormon community of Short Creek. What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet?

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'Trust Me: The False Prophet' – Where Is Samuel Bateman Today and What Happened to His Child Brides?

Bateman's rise began around 2019, when he positioned himself as a successor to imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.

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Las Vegas couple set out on a road trip to shoot a film project about a church, then they stumbled onto a horrifying child SA ring

It started as a plan to record injustice.

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Forget Big Mistakes — new Netflix true crime series Trust Me: The False Prophet is the only TV show you need to stream this weekend

While everybody is talking about Big Mistakes on Netflix, the streamer has quietly released its greatest true crime docuseries of all time.

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‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult

In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence

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A timeline of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border once controlled by a polygamist sect

The neighboring towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have transformed in the years since Warren Jeffs led a polygamous sect there

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Towns scarred by Warren Jeffs’ polygamous ’cult’ undergo dramatic transformation

The towns functioned for 90 years largely as a theocracy

The Independent UK

Utah lawmaker creates bill to try and block people from crossing the border for underage marriages

Representative Melissa Garff Ballard hopes that the bill will crack down on crimes similar to those committed by convicted child sex offender Warren Jeffs

The Independent UK

16yo forced to marry Utah teen by a cult, but the ‘marriage’ didn’t last. But fate had other plans

Having lived under the thumb of the cult's leader, they had no choice as teenagers.

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Mormon leader Russell Nelson has died aged 101. What’s next for the church?

Russell Marion Nelson Sr, prophet and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died aged 101.

The Conversation

She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

NEWS: After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy fought to rebuild her life and protect her children. Now, they are missing — and she believes the FLDS is behind it. As more mothers come forward with similar stories, a chilling pattern is emerging, Andrea Cavallier writes

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‘They think that it’s their salvation’: FLDS cult-like religious group suspected in disappearance of Idaho teens

Their mother has a history with the notorious FLDS group.

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Mother of two missing teens thinks they were snatched to be sacrificed by religious followers linked to jailed polygamist Warren Jeffs

Elizabeth Roundy says her son, Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and her daughter, Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, disappeared Sunday night

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Polygamist leader with 20 ‘wives’ faces sentencing for child sex crimes

Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly coerced girls into his criminal sexual activity

The Independent UK

‘Polyamory, cults and arms’: How a Colorado land dispute spiraled into wild misinformation

Reports linked a group who lay claim to a stretch of public land to the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its convicted sex offender leader Warren Jeffs. This was not the case, writes Mike Bedigan

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Former Cult Decides It Owns Colorado Public Land, Erects Barbed-wire Fencing

Members of the Free Land Holders Committee cult have taken up residence in 1,400 acres of Colorado public lands, erecting barbed-wire fencing which has roiled locals and recreaters, as well as law enforcement.

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The 10 Best Documentaries About Cults

From 'The Vow' to 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God'

The Guardian - US

Minnesota land linked to polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs for sale

Land was owned by brother of convicted sex offender who was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for sexually abusing underage girls

Tribune News Service

Northern Minnesota land tied to polygamy sect, Warren Jeffs is for sale

DULUTH, Minn. — Forty wooded acres of Grand Marais land owned by a business connected to a controversial religious faction is for sale.

The Independent UK

Members of polygamous group to appear in court on child sex abuse charges

Members of a small polygamous group accused of child sex abuse of underage girls who the group’s leader claimed as brides are expected to appear in federal court on Friday

The Guardian - US

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints issued a ‘revelation’ that has parents worried

The Independent UK

Warren Jeffs’ nephew charged with kidnapping 10-year-old girl

Heber Jeffs arrested after he removed child from his Utah home allegedly on instructions from convicted child sex criminal

Daily Mirror

Man accused of having multiple wives after one contacted another on social media

The man has been accused of making false claims on marriage documents after he didn't declare he was already married when he remarried a second woman and later a third in Perth, Australia

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