Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex

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A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual ‘wives’ including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody.

CBC | World News

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