In the United States arrested a resident of Arizona, who proclaimed himself a prophet and got 20 wives (14 photos)

46-year-old Arizona resident proclaimed himself a prophet and started 20 wives, among whom are nine-year-old girls, including his daughter.





So-called polygamy cult leader Samuel Bateman transported women and children in a cramped trailer, and instead of a toilet there was bucket. The man was arrested in September 2022. Now he is under guards on charges of obstruction of justice.



It all started back in August 2022, when patrol officers saw a GMC Denali car stop on the road, and from the trailer a child's hand appeared. The security forces stopped the car and found out that Bateman transported three girls aged 11 to 14 in a cargo trailer behind your SUV.



The man was arrested and placed in the Coconino County Jail on suspicion of endangering the lives of children. But after a while he returned home.



Except the FBI suspected Bateman was cleaning his phone. at the time of his arrest and interacted with supporters in Colorado City while was in jail. On September 13, agents searched his house, and already On September 15, he appeared in federal court on new charges, related to interference in the investigation.



Bateman leads a radical Mormon offshoot group fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or FLDS). Moreover, his views were so radical that his condemned even former FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, who, by the way, has conviction for child rape.



The fanaticism of the 46-year-old American has reached such an extent that he began to consider himself a prophet quite seriously. He later married own teenage daughter.



From the testimony of witnesses it became known, after marrying his daughter Bateman gathered "about 50 followers and more than 20 wives, many of which are minors - mostly under 15 years old.



It turns out that Bateman knows how to convince. For example, he told one couple, that “Heavenly Father” allegedly instructed him in early November 2021 to “give the most valuable thing he has is his girls "to his three adults male followers. Bateman then allegedly watched as the three men had sex with his daughters, one of whom was only 12 years. Only Bateman himself stated that all the girls "sacrificed their virtue for the Lord's sake."



“God will correct their bodies and return the membrane to their body. I've never been like this confident in the execution of his will. It's all because of love," lamented "prophet".



Speaking of "love". Bateman owns two Bentleys, and his "wives" huddled in cramped trailer, which included a sofa, camping chairs and bucket toilet.



A federal prosecutor said the state child protection agency removed the children from the Bateman home.