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Samuel Rappylee Bateman is an American convicted sex offender who led a small polygamous splinter sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah — an area known as Short Creek. Self-styled as a prophet and successor to imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, Bateman assembled more than 20 "spiritual wives" between 2019 and 2022, at least 10 of whom were minors, with victims as young as nine years old. He was arrested in 2022, pleaded guilty in April 2024, and was sentenced in December 2024 to 50 years in federal prison.

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Samuel Bateman is a male author and musician from the United Kingdom. He was born in 1976. In academic contexts, he is listed as an author alongside Barbara D. Bateman and Samuel A. Kirk. His published works include the title *10 Years of Research at the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children*.

Bateman has a presence in multiple databases, with five works recorded in Crossref and one work count in Open Library. He is referenced by five other encyclopedia articles. As a musician, he is categorized as a person under the MusicBrainz system.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1976-01-01
Works
1

Top works

  • 10 Years of Research at the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 19,828x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,495x

  3. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

    · 2005 · cited 18,334x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,235x

  5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 12,959x

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Key dates

Born
1 January 1976

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Samuel
Gender
male
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date of birth
1976-01-01

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Rappylee Bateman (born c. 1976) is an American convicted sex offender who led a small polygamous splinter sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based in Short Creek, Arizona. Self-styled as a prophet of and successor to imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, Bateman assembled more than 20 "spiritual wives" between 2019 and 2022. At least 10 of these wives were minors, with some victims as young as nine years old. He was arrested in 2022, pleaded guilty in April 2024, and was sentenced in December 2024 to 50 years in federal prison.

His case was the subject of the 2026 Netflix documentary series Trust Me: The False Prophet, directed by Rachel Dretzin.

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