Examines how people can be controlled by religion and a dominating leader

It was unbelievable how long it took the authorities to do something. But that couple documenting everything, those two are heroes. The couple os still living up there!

because I already watched "Keep Sweet Pray and Obey" and it's just fucking horrifying. That series is about warren jeffs.

Are they both FLDS?

as an aside, i don't know how you "love" someone who is nothing but a hole and a child making machine to you.

they always forget to tell us their drag names.

The one the pray and be sweet doc was about? This Bateman guy i think sees himself as the leader since the other guy (jeff, jeffers?) is in prison serving time for the same thing?

with his followers. I have heard his creepy voice. I have often worried that he is going to ask them all to commit mass suicide.

though I am pretty sure that jeffs is still running the FLDS from his prison cell.

Reads like they could tack 12-24 years into the end of that term. 74 years would effectively be a life sentence.

... don't fare too well in prison, they say. May Bateman's fate reflect that fact.

You never know what King Rottinghand will do with a pedophile. Pardoning this guy would be so on-brand. The state conviction will keep him behind bards.

why Republicans want to reduce or, preferably, remove the 'age of consent' laws. They just love phucking children any way they can. Raping them, taking away their food (SNAP and USAID and other program cuts), their rights (the repeal of child labor laws in Southern states) and, cutting education funding to keep them stupid so they will be agreeable peons. It will be a long time before the positive change that is happening will fully bloom. I hope I live to see the Social Democrats take the reins of power in DC. It will be glorious, as the Klingons say.

Don't just leave him in federal prison. That's where all the criminals go to be released.

But the state charges can't be pardoned no matter how much Bateman pays Trump.

Commuted her sentence. I guess money buys you anything in the United States.

But it shows that a mechanism exists by which a corrupt, criminal POTUS with immunity, a lapdog Congress and cronies at SCOTUS can leverage their power to get state charges dropped too, even if they can't legally do so directly

While what you say is true, there are other ways. Recently, our DINO, Extremely Pro-Corporate Governor Polis pardoned a treasonous election person who had committed a major fraud espionage, and was sentenced to prison in Colorado for 10-20 years......
Polis and Trump had "conversations" and Polis went from saying "No Way."......to agreeing with Trump and commuting her sentence and releasing her......

Maybe Polis wants a position in Washington D.C. now that he cannot run for another term as Colorado Governor??????????
Maybe filling out the rest of Bennet's Senate Term, now that Bennet is running to replace Polis as Colo Governor??????.........
Of course, if Bennet doesn't win the governorship, he will just go back to his Do-Nothing act in the U.S. Senate, along with his sidekicks Hickenlooper and Degette in the house.......

Interestingly DeGette and Bennet have come out of the woodwork recently, both running a ton of political ads saying all that they have done to thwart Trump and Republicans in spite of the fact that we haven't heard a peep out of DeGette, Bennet, Hickenlooper the entire time they have been in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate........It seems to be apparent that there is a bit of Fright going on with them, because many Dems, are, for the first time, confronting Our Colorado.... Do Nothing Dem Politicians.

Where are the parents? Did they allow this?

He tells them it's God's will.

I was a waitress in a well known restaurant franchise chain. The owner had a small travel trailer parked behind the restaurant. If you refused his advances you found yourself out of a job. I was lucky enough to find a new job. The authorities didn't seem to care. It was considered "consensual" .

And that was pretty much how women were treated in that job sector.

I was a waitress,'s in the 80's for a large corporation. Anonymous letters may have worked.

This could be a bigger story than reported.

was no real recourse -- or concern -- over young women and children trafficked and abused by "religious" leaders. If they still do this today, the scale, say in 1890 or 1920, must have been immense.

And even if something was done, it usually just meant moving the priest, pastor, whatever they were called to another parish, and the whole cycle started over again.