- Polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman is set to be sentenced in an Arizona state court on Tuesday following his conviction on three counts of child abuse.
- The state charges stem from an August 2022 incident in which police rescued three young girls from an unventilated trailer during a traffic stop.
- Bateman faces a mandatory sentence of four to eight years for each abuse count, with the judge deciding whether the terms will run consecutively or concurrently.
- The self-proclaimed prophet is already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating child sexual abuse and plotting to kidnap girls from protective custody.
- Bateman, a former follower of convicted sect leader Warren Jeffs, represented himself at trial and claimed he did not realize the children were inside the trailer.
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