Samuel Bateman was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, until he left to start his own small offshoot group.
President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; convicted felon
The document filed Friday provides new insight about what investigators have found in a case that first became public in August. It accompanied charges of kidnapping and impeding a foreseeable prosecution against three of Bateman's wives — Naomi Bistline, Donnae Barlow and Moretta Rose Johnson. Bateman was arrested in August when someone spotted small fingers in the gap of a trailer he was hauling through Flagstaff. He posted bond but was arrested again and charged with obstructing justice in a federal investigation into whether children were being transported across state lines for sexual activity.
Jeffs is serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for child sex abuse related to underage marriages. Bateman often traveled to Nebraska where some of his other followers lived and internationally to Canada and Mexico for conferences.
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