Investigators say eight girls ranging in age from 11 to 16 who ran away from away from their home in Arizona were found in Washington state. The FBI says the girls were wives of Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet. KPNX’s Chase Golightly reports.
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Religion is a dangerous weaponized tool.
They may be alive but they are not safe. They’re brainwashed and will never recover.
I worked for a company that takes young guys from Colorado city and makes them traveling electricians. They have been investigated by the fbi multiple times
Groomers?
White men trying to keep Republican numbers high
The Church of the latter-day Saints
That’s the Mormon church
More people need to know this
church is whack !!!!!🤦🏻♂️ #FACTS
Its good they are making these brainwashed predators pay for their crimes but the authorities need to have professional psychologist give special brainwashing reversal therapy & hypnotism to all the members of the group. I was in Foster care they foster care system is a bad program I was not fed by one of my foster parents at all the first one gave me food but not enough
RELIGION….always leads back to $$$ and sexual predators and worthless grown women enabling them. WAKE UP people!!!!!
That sounds like a MAGA cult. Why not call a spade a spade? Isn’t this typically how they ‘save the children’?
This is a misleading headline, they did not escape; they were taken from their crazy church and placed in foster homes. They escaped from the state custody and tried to go back to their crazy cult. FYI all religions are crazy cults.
so FLDS is still alive and well even tho they’re following a Felon. America.
We should be at a point in society were there is no excuse for these cults to continue to sexualize young girls.
This goes beyond freedom of religion.
This sounds like an American conservative fantasy.
These religious men who think it’s okay to steal and take advantage of minors is sick. This man may have an ego but he will be broken… This man may have thought but he has lost. Prayers to all children and poor girls who were turned into wife’s for selfish reasons…. Wow
As long as he’s the “head” and prophet, he’ll never see any justice. He’s viewed as the only gateway to god and god speaks through the prophet to “lead” the people. I’ve witnessed this crap in the Pentacostal church.
Well this is a cult
11 year old WIFE????? Oh heck no!!!
Why is this still happening??? Where are the parents? How is he able to find SO many young girls WITHOUT help??!!
The parents are in on it and support it. That’s how it is there.
They live on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. It takes 5 hours to drive from the south rim to the north. That’s how isolated they are. Most people don’t think of the Grand Canyon as a fence.
Where are the Republican complaints about grooming?
Oh they are all Prophets , aren’t they? 😌smh
How can Bateman be allowed to video chat with his victims while in jail. Why would they allow the other adult wives to be in contact with these girls. Someone wasn’t doing their job. Thankful these girls are safe. They really need someone who has already gotten out the life they were in to talk to so they understand they can get their lifes back. They are only children that have have been raised and brain washed into this life. They need to see the other side of how they can live.
Wtf 😂😂😂
That’s one of the states pedophiles run to. Not surprise.
I wonder if they’ve been taught to read and went to school???
How do they get 20 wives are they maried like foreal
Creepy
Religion is a mental illness.
The fact that polygamy is STILL happening despite the fact that it’s illegal just goes to show just how vast the nation is in terms of land and how such illegal actions can still be overlooked. However it’s good to hear that the girls are free from such tyranny and hopefully can start to learn to live a more normal life…
If polygamy is what a consenting group of adults wants, who cares? But an 11 year old should not be a wife!
“They are safe” …mighty big words when they come from DFCS🙄
Need to create a national task force that investigates and intervenes in situations like this. This is literally pedophilia under the cover of religion.
😡😡😡
Christian Cult!
he shouldn’t be allowed phone privileges the same with FLDS current front man.
Wow very sad
Federal media government will arrested those sexual predators. Obviously they love to get laid those innocent girls I would’ve do nothing let social media government arrested those sexual criminal and problem solved.
The delusion in this country runs deep. How dumb do you have to be?
Warren Jeff type
Those inmates need to do their civic duty
Pedophiles hiding behind religion . And the public is indirectly supporting it because of their tax exempt status as a “church”
Though polygamy is illegal, having a wife that young in the us shockingly is not.
Their dresses are so pretty!!
I thought so too 🤣🤣😉
These poor girls have been brainwashed since birth. Without really specialized therapy, they’re going to keep running back to the only family and home they’ve ever known, no matter how bad it is.
Sicking Individual
Something ain’t right with this story. It sounds more like they escaped child protective custody to me. What’s the true story???
Sounds about white 🧐
Men and their cult 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Having more than one wife if those women who cares but making a child ur wife is wicked. Put those demons in jail.
He brainwashed the heck out of those poor girls. Shame on him. I hope he gets taught a few lessons in jail.
This is so f^cking troubling…
“Safe” in group homes!! really??? what a mess!
Child Services then keep them “safe” not like the kids from the family that was abused and then you put them in homes where again they were abused; sexually and physically.
Using religion to be with young girls….😡
you leftists use drag queens for the same thing
@Guillermo El Nino I’m neither party get fkd
I remember this lol
The only sinners here are the girls for their lack of obedience. They’ll be punished and “corrected” by the headship.
I’ve seen this in the Pentacostal church and this May be very true of this particular cult as well. 🤬🤬
And what form would that correction take? Just asking for a friend.
They were probably heading to Canada. The FLDS have a city there also.
Safe ?
Didn’t the Christian god impregnate young teen Mary with Jesus? Deities and their leaders love young women. 😮
This Pedo Chomo going down #pedo #chomo #pedophile # #childmolester #jail #prison
Oh organized religion. Silly people
Where are all these white republicans that cry what about our children? They promote this pedophilia that’s why
Now he’ll be a cell block wife!!!
Welcome to polygamy.
Those babies are safe now
Puberty is great when husbands and wives love each other. Straight marriages with children should be legalized.
are you in Quantico or Langley?
Amazing how the media is all shocked shocked just another Warren Jeffs I live near this town and the corruption is so endless Dr. PHIL NEEDS TO VISIT AGAIN. And investigate as well as the IRS the cult is stealing money from people who haven’t even been in this religious Crap through employment
Stereotypes
😲😲😲😲 😢😢
The three wives who helped the eight girls escape….are being charged with kidnapping? And law enforcement wonders why it’s so hard to get people to come forward or cooperate when all they offer them is cheap wrist jewelry, three hots and a cot.
he is gonna have a lot of husbands now in the can…..
Pedophiles
leftist
Why is this headline news? NO ONE CARES EXCEPT PEOPLE CLOSE TO THEM!
Disgusting, all news I hear about those Mormons always makes me sick. Come on government, why haven’t you guys brought this cult down yet? They’ve been around way too long.
all you want to do is final solution everybody who doesn’t have your lifestyle.
SICK
Whites -_____-
f agg ot
Typical right wingers,
That’s why they hate people trespassing in their property, so people won’t see their pedo actions and report it.
HE IS NIT FROM THE LDS CHURCH DONT USE THAT PERV TO DO YOUR SICKNESS. BYE TO PRISON
GOD BLESS YOU GIRLS/ VICTIMS
DONT FORGET HOLLYWEIRD PETOFILES ALL DAY LONG ETC…
Charles Manson
Church for grooming young girls. Disgusting. All men in that religion are pedophiles.
so it’s ok for you to call all of us pedos but fauci for bid we call you and your leftist cult pedos.
don’t worry, 5 years from now you won’t have to hide it anymore and can be proud to be a P
You all are upset now . . Within 3 years with Mormon & Muslim influence this will be normalized in the USA
Every time I see a documentary on what the Nazis did, and how a well-educated and civil society of Germans went along with it, I wonder how can this happen? Or Jim Jones? Or Charles Manson? Then I read stories about this situation and I think that we are just gullible creatures looking for the next “messiah”, no disrespect to any particular religion is intended here.
I hope these young ladies get the help they need. Send those adults to prison gen pop for life!
“It’s the illegal immigrants bringing rapists into our country” 🤡
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Bateman POS!
Terrible. Cults and religions are a way to abuse people, especially women and girls.
Nasty little kids want to marry an old man en masse like they’re some clutch of little innocent princesses.
That’s how bad group homes are. These girls would rather be in a cult.
Netflix is going to be all over this
Human trafficking underage girls…
In the name of blasphemy
Another non profit religious cult doing the devils work.
It’s amazing the BS that’s justified in the name of religious delusion.
States and School districts violating child US Student Rights are culpable for the neglect abuse of age k-12.
Jesus was 30 when Baptised and no reference to him selecting to marry. So shut the parents ” rights” up with that.
Bateman is a predator- I think we can stop softening the reality of who this person is and stop couching it in soft language. Go with some Buzz words- child molester- sociopath- kidnapper- polygamist- narcissist-
Free Thinker?
My God…..
As much as the GOP hates pedos and “groomers”, how does this happen?
Oh that’s right, “religious freedom”, the password for all GOP atrocities.
Prophet of God= Grifter
This kind of child abuse has to stop. How dare they hide behind religion to try and justify their actions. This man is a pedophile, period. Do DNA tests and give him 20 years for each child born to an underage mother…
Oh so young girls DONT want to be married to old men??? Who’d a thought!!!