- Samuel Bateman, a polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal sentence for sex crimes involving minors, was convicted on three state child abuse counts after girls were found in an unventilated trailer he was hauling.
- Officers discovered three girls (11–14 at the time) in the hot, enclosed trailer after a passerby saw small fingers through gaps in the doors; prosecutors argued it was common sense not to transport people that way.
- Bateman is tied to an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is featured in a Netflix series about the sect; the sect’s influence in its historic towns has declined in recent years.
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