Obedience as Currency: How Bateman Turned Families Into a Trafficking Network | Part 2
Most trafficking operations require coercion, kidnapping, or deception. Samuel Bateman's required none of those things — because the FLDS did the work for him. Fathers walked their daughters to his door voluntarily. Mothers watched and said nothing. Followers bankrolled the operation with luxury cars and funded cross-state travel. The entire supply chain ran on a single fuel: obedience rebrande...
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