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Four years after Christine Marie and videographer Tolga Katas helped expose Samuel Bateman’s abuse in the FLDS community, Netflix debuts a four-part series, Trust Me: The False Prophet, detailing how they gained the predator’s trust, the FBI-backed case that led to his 50-year prison sentence, and the survivors’ resilience—along with a fundraiser to support Bateman’s victims.
Samuel Bateman, the leader of a splinter group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and 10 others have been indicted on 53 felony counts, including sexual harm to nine girls aged 9 to 17. The accusations include coercing little girls to have sex with him and other adults, trading nights with girls for luxury Bentley cars, coercing children into participating in live-streamed group sex acts, and transporting across state lines the girls for sexual trade. Bateman had claimed 10 women and 10 underage girls to be God-given wives.