Arizona man accused of child abuse as leader of polygamous cult, FBI says

Self-styled prophet Samuel Bateman allegedly engaged in child sex trafficking and had at least 20 wives', most of them children

Federal investigators in Arizona discovered that a man arrested in August for kidnapping was head of a polygamous religious cult and had at least 20 wives", most of them children.

Samuel Rappylee Bateman, an erstwhile member of the Mormon Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, set up an offshoot sect and persuaded male followers to surrender their wives and daughters, court papers filed in Flagstaff said.