PHOENIX - A hearing will be held on Thursday to determine if Lori Vallow, the so-called "Doomsday Mom," is mentally fit to stand trial in her Arizona case. The Rule 11 hearing will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 14…[Continue Reading...]
Children in a 1960s trailer park cult in Arizona were whipped with belts, sexually abused, separated from their families, forced to run naked through the commune and locked in a dark root cellar for days, according to survivors and court…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (CN) — A sixth spiritual wife of an Arizona religious leader who sexually abused 10 underage girls in the name of God was sentenced to prison Wednesday afternoon. Leilani Barlow, who admitted to marrying her underage daughter off to…[Continue Reading...]
Nearly 10 days after an Arizona judge granted Lori Vallow Daybell’s motion for a mental competency exam — and pushed back the start of her trial to accommodate it — Vallow Daybell’s lawsyers have now asked to withdraw that request.…[Continue Reading...]
An Arizona judge granted a request to evaluate Lori Vallow's competency. The so-called "Doomsday Mom" has been in the Maricopa County Estrella Jail for nearly a year after being extradited from Idaho. She is serving multiple life sentences in Idaho…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX - There is a new update in the years-long legal saga involving the woman who is known as the so-called ‘Doomsday Mom.’ We learned on Oct. 21 that Lori Vallow's defense lawyer filed a motion on Oct. 9 for…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — A federal jury in Phoenix has convicted two brothers of participating in the abuse of children connected to Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed leader of a polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border. LaDell J. Bistline, Jr., 45 and Torrance…[Continue Reading...]
COLORADO CITY, AZ (AZFamily/AP) — Two Colorado City men who are followers of the polygamous FLDS sect have been convicted of multiple charges after a years-long conspiracy involving child sex abuse that prosecutors say spanned multiple states and victimized nearly…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (CN) — The prosecution in a federal trial against two Arizona men accused of aiding and abetting a child sex abuse ring within a fundamentalist Mormon sect rested its case Thursday afternoon, closing with a witness who says she…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (CN) — Two more witnesses in a federal child sex abuse trial surrounding a polygamist religious sect said defendant LaDell Bistline Jr. pressured them into marrying the man who sexually abused them for three years while they were children.…[Continue Reading...]
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