Trust Me: New False Prophet Exposed

0:00It's April 8th. This is Entertainment and celebrity news today pop culture, powered by AI. Netflix drops a new docuseries called Trust Me, The False Prophet. Picking up where Keith Sweet left off with Warren Jeffs and his twisted. Fundamentalist Mormon sect in Short Creek, Utah. This one spotlights Samuel Bateman, Jeffs' successor who took things even darker. Bateman built his own group, claiming to be Jeffs' messenger from beyond, marrying dozens of women and girls, some as young as nine. He got busted in 2022 and pleaded guilty last year to kidnapping and transporting minors for sex crimes. Now he's doing 50 years behind bars. Bateman rose fast after Jeffs went down for life on child sex assault charges. He spread lies that Jeffs was dead and positioned himself as the new prophet, pulling in followers with promises and control. Christine Marie, a former fundamentalist turned investigator and her husband Toga Katas, went undercover filming inside the group for years and earning trust while exposing the horrors.

1:03Locals and sect members started noticing red flags, like Bateman hauling trailers full of women and young girls, defying old rules against marriage. Some dads handed over their daughters, calling it divine will, but whispers spread about child marriages and abuse. Christine and Katas captured it all, from family dinners to disturbing dinner confessions. Their work led to FBI raids and arrests, nailing Bateman's top guys too. One got 25 years, another life, and a third 35 for the... Trafficking schemes. Victims began flipping, realizing the manipulation, with one ex follower even studying psychology to unpack the brainwashing. The series streams now on Netflix, showing how these sects keep spawning new monsters even after the old ones fall, leaving short creek still healing. From the grip of false prophets.