Child Protective Services is a way around the constitution. It is likely
not being handled lawfully or ethically and there is bias. They have
rights
and those rights are being violated. I would like to see predators
convicted
but not at the expense of the innocent.
"HGoering" <kinkysr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>A lot of us smelled this the instant we heard about the "16-year-old
> caller" in the now unraveling polygamy case.
>
> And when two days passed and still no "caller," the gangs of lawyers
> from the East Coast were en route to San Angelo to grab their share of
> what promises to be a multimillion-dollar round of lawsuits by
> aggrieved "parents" whose kids were stolen (kidnapped) from them.
>
> ----------------------
> "Texas 911 Calls Linked To 33-Year-Old in Colo."
>
> "Woman Has History of False Claims"
>
> By David Fahrenthold
> Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, April 24, 2008; A02
>
>
>
> SAN ANGELO, Tex., April 23 -- The phone calls that triggered a massive
> raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas -- in which a quavering
> girl's voice described being forcibly married at 15 -- have been
> linked to a Colorado woman with a history of making false claims of
> ***ual abuse, according to an affidavit filed in Colorado Springs.
>
> The affidavit says calls that allegedly came from "Sarah Barlow" -- a
> teenage girl at the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside Eldorado, Tex. --
> actually came from numbers connected to Rozita Swinton, 33, of
> Colorado Springs. The affidavit also notes Swinton's possible
> involvement in a series of separate but similar re****ts in which the
> young caller described being abused by a pastor, an uncle or her
> father.
>
> Texas authorities yesterday said they have not determined whether the
> calls about the Yearning for Zion Ranch were a hoax and that they plan
> to press on with their investigation of possible ***ual abuse there.
> More than 400 children are now in state custody, as authorities try to
> sort out what happened at the ranch run by a polygamist group called
> the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
>
> "Until she's actually been charged" with a crime related to the phone
> calls, Swinton's role "is still an open question," state Department of
> Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.
>
> But the revelations about phone calls to shelters for abused women in
> Colorado, Wa****ngton, Utah, Arizona and Florida cast doubt on the
> dramatic scenario that led Texas authorities to investigate and
> ultimately to raid the compound April 3. The raid made the insular
> sect the subject of one of the most complex child-custody cases in
> recent U.S. history.
>
> The calls that launched the Texas case started coming in to a family
> shelter in San Angelo, about 45 miles from Eldorado, on March 29. The
> caller said that she was 16, and that she was bound in a "spiritual
> marriage" to an older, abusive man. The girl said she had given birth
> to one child and was pregnant with another.
>
> The caller paused often, do***ents say, and talked quietly, so no one
> would know she was calling for help.
>
> On Wednesday, officials at the Texas Department of Family and
> Protective Services said that the facts surrounding the first phone
> call had become irrelevant because the raid turned up independent
> evidence that underage girls had been impregnated.
>
> "The removal was based on our investigation. It was not based on the
> initial call," spokesman Patrick Crimmins said.
>
> The affidavit made public Wednesday, which was provided to The
> Wa****ngton Post by the Associated Press, indicates links to Swinton
> even though she has no apparent connection to the Eldorado ranch.
>
> One phone number used to call the San Angelo shelter is registered to
> a Courtney Swinton, with an address in Rozita Swinton's apartment
> complex. The affidavit said authorities had "several re****ts regarding
> Rozita Swinton making false re****ts" with another number that had also
> been used to call the shelter.
>
> The affidavit said that in previous years, Swinton had been linked to
> other tales of terrifying abuse. In one, a woman calling herself Dana
> Anderson phoned a hotline to say that she was 13 years old and had
> been locked in a basement and ***ually abused by her father. In
> another, a girl calling herself Dana said she was abused by a youth
> pastor at a Colorado church.
>
> The affidavit described these events as part of a request for a
> warrant for Swinton, charging her with false re****ting to authorities.
> It said she had already pleaded guilty to false re****ting last year in
> Colorado. Attempts to reach Swinton yesterday were unsuccessful: One
> number listed on the affidavit was disconnected, and a call to another
> was not returned.
>
> The affidavit does not put forward any motive Swinton might have had
> for allegedly making the calls, but it hints at a possible personality
> disorder. The do***ent quotes a former worker at a shelter for abused
> women in Colorado Springs who may have received calls from Swinton in
> February. In one, Swinton allegedly said, "Rozita and Dana are in the
> same body, but just different personalities," and that the "Dana
> personality is there to protect Rozita from being hurt."
>
> [Staff researcher Julie Tate in Wa****ngton contributed to this
> re****t.]
>
>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303351.html
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