‘When I watched the girls loving this man, I felt sick’: the woman who exposed a polygamous paedophile

Without Christine Marie, Samuel Bateman might never have been jailed for his crimes among the Mormon community of Short Creek. What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet? When Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, packed up their lives in Las Vegas in 2016 to start from scratch in Short Creek, a remote desert town in the Arizona Strip, the odds of fitting in and finding community were surely against them. This was the headquarters of the Fundament...

By Anna Moore