Self-styled Utah prophet gets 15 years for child sodomy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 9:22 am, Thursday, June 28, 2018

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A self-styled Utah prophet who led a doomsday cult and secretly married young girls because of his beliefs in polygamy has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison.


Samuel Shaffer, 35, was sentenced Wednesday in the small central city of Manti after pleading guilty to one felony count of child sodomy, the Desert News reported .

Other charges were dropped in exchange for the guilty plea, including bigamy, lewdness involving a child and an additional sodomy count.

Shaffer was charged in December 2017 after police raided a remote desert compound in Iron County and found four girls. He was accused of abusing an 8-year-old girl related to a member of his group called Knights of the Crystal Blade.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Self-styled-Utah-prophet-gets-15-years-for-child-13032812.php

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Samuel Shaffer

[Canoe52]

1. Names his group, Knights of the crystal blade...what a piece of work this guy is.

Throw away the key on this one.

[CanonRay]

2. Don't worry, Trump will pardon him...

[packman]

3. "Knights of the Crystal Blade" -

Guy HAD to get that name from a video role playing game

[keithbvadu2]

4. Old enough to marry

Old enough to marry

[Calista241]

9. That is a very disturbing cartoon

[arithia]

5. "because of his beliefs in polygamy"? Shitty wording

This man is a pedophile and used religion to gain access to minor children whom he could sexually abuse.

Full stop.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Somehow these guys keep coming up with the same idea

even tho others have been jailed for it.

[Initech]

6. Guy looks like a real winner too!

[marble falls]

7. How would you like for that guy to show up on your front porch asking you if ...

you've heard of a further testament of the Bible that takes place in the "new world", concurrent with the old and new testament of the Bible? Oh yes and Jebus, too. And with another one just like him. Both grinning.

[47of74]

8. I hope he's put in general pop.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Ugh! He's repulsive.

I hope they lock him up in general and throw away the key.

[Judi Lynn]

13. It's doubtful he even bothered to bathe before "date nights." Oh, god! n/t

[oberliner]

11. Another Warren Jeffs

Awful.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. That's awful.

What is wrong with guys like that? I just don't get it.

And there seem to be a lot of them around.