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Lyle Bateman’s Double Sentencing | Dover News
Lyle Bateman, brother of jailed polygamous leader Lyle Jeffs, is facing a new sentencing after being caught transporting underage girls in a deadly trailer—each charge carrying 4 to 8 years. Already serving 50 years for federal child sex abuse, Bateman, who called himself a prophet and had underage “spiritual wives,” tried to downplay the trailer’s horrific conditions. His crimes helped sustain a dangerous offshoot of Warren Jeffs’ sect, now outlawed by the LDS Church. Though once dominant in rural Arizona communities, that influence has waned—courts even removed church control from local…
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