ALL IN THE FAMILY: Polygamist Mormon 'Prophet' Had Sex With His Underage Wives' Father, FBI Says

[Celerity]

“Heavenly Father has the right to do anything he wants,” Samuel Bateman told law enforcement.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/polygamist-mormon-prophet-samuel-bateman-had-sex-with-his-underage-wives-father-fbi-says



Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed “prophet” of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, had 20 wives, many of whom were under the age of 15, according to an FBI investigation.

Bateman drank wine and had sex with a male follower, Moroni Johnson, in a motel room in Lincoln, Nebraska, in front of his underage wives, new court documents show, some of whom were Johnson’s own daughters. The FBI said the women and girls were required to stand naked and watch the “binding of brothers.”

Bateman also forced his wives to have sex with other male followers, the documents say. He maintained that he was acting under instructions from “Heavenly Father,” and told the girls that had “sacrificed their virtue for the Lord.”

Eight underage girls said to be Bateman’s wives were found at a Spokane Air BnB last Thursday, according to the Spokesman-Review. They had previously run away from children’s homes in Arizona where they were placed following Bateman’s arrest in August on charges of child endangerment.

[hlthe2b]

1. There are no words. Fortunately, there are prisons for someone like that.

but the harm done is devastating.

[atreides1]

2. Well

One day the religious nuts on the SCOTUS will likely rule in favor of people like this!

They've already taken the whole "freedom of religion" mantra, a bit more liberally, then what the founders may have intended...in my opinion.

[2naSalit]

3. That's what they all say.

[underpants]

4. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

How horrible

[Irish_Dem]

5. It is not "having sex." It is RAPE of minors.

[chowder66]

7. +1

[Dorian Gray]

6. What in the actual fuck

This is grotesque.

All of it.

So abusive in every sense of the word. Physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally. Those poor girls.

[Arthur_Frain]

8. And this entire sect of the Mormon church still runs the towns of Hilldale

and Arizona City. And they have known about this shit forever, and the towns are still there, still run by the same sect.

That’s religious freedom for ya right there, authorities don’t do anything about it ‘cause the Mormon church runs several states in the west now, not just Utah, but ID, WY, AZ, all successful targets for their proselytizing operations.

Might make them look bad to their own extremists if they crack down on other extremists.

[PatSeg]

9. "Self-proclaimed prophet"

Which means giving oneself permission to indulge in any excesses in the name of the lord. Just a damn con artist like the church's founder who wanted license to do whatever he wanted so he created a religion. It is not immoral or illegal if "Heavenly Father" says it is okay.

What a monster.

[Midnight Writer]

10. "Heavenly Father has the right to do anything he wants"? What, he's a Supreme Court Justice?