Hoaxer's Phone Linked To Sect Abuse Calls

Missing Colo. Woman Claimed Multiple Personalities; Charged With Making False Abuse Reports

(CBS/AP)  An unsealed arrest warrant indicates that at least one of the phone calls which triggered a child abuse investigation against a fundamentalist Mormon sect may have been a hoax, from a woman claiming to have multiple personalities.

According to the affidavit made public Wednesday, a phone number used to report alleged abuse at the FLDS compound in Texas has been linked to a woman suspected of making false abuse claims in Colorado.

It's not yet clear whether authorities suspect Rozita Swinton, 33, of Colorado Springs, made the calls that triggered the April 3 raid on the compound. The arrest warrant affidavit released Wednesday says that several calls alleging abuse there were made using several phone numbers, including the number linked to Swinton.

The more than 400 children found at the retreat in Eldorado are now in state custody. Texas officials and lawyers have said that even if the call that prompted the raid turned out to be a hoax it would not affect their custody case because the state acted in good faith.

Swinton was arrested April 16 and later released on a misdemeanor charge of false reporting in a February case in Colorado Springs with no known ties to the raid in west Texas. She's accused of posing as a teenager named "Jennifer" and falsely claiming in a 911 call that her father had locked her in her basement for days, the arrest warrant affidavit released Wednesday said.

Swinton's whereabouts were unknown and she did not immediately return a phone message. It wasn't known whether she had an attorney.

CBS station KEYE-TV correspondent Keith Elkins reports that Swinton has a history of claiming to be a repeat victim of sexual abuse, of filing false reports, of using many names - and claiming to have "different personalities," according to Colorado Springs Police.

Swinton pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false reporting in a 2005 case out of Castle Rock, Colo.; a one-year sentence was deferred. She had claimed in phone calls to be a 16-year-old named Jessica who was suicidal after giving birth; there was no baby.

"The investigator ... was surprised at her age because she sounded like someone who was in her mid- to late teens even though she was 30," Castle Rock police Lt. Douglas Ernst said.

The warrant also links Swinton to calls made throughout October from a "Dana Anderson." The caller claimed to be a young woman being abused by her pastor at Colorado Springs' New Life Church, and later as a 13-year-old student at Liberty High School who said she was being drugged and sexually abused by her father.

Officers linked the calls to Swinton in March after a Colorado Springs counselor got someone named Dana Anderson to acknowledge that her first name was Rozita, the document said.

In mid-April, Texas Rangers called Colorado Springs police regarding their investigation into the Eldorado polygamist retreat, Yearning for Zion Ranch.

The calls that triggered the raid of the ranch were purportedly made by a 16-year-old girl who said her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. Texas authorities have not found that girl but say they have found evidence other children were abused.

Texas Ranger Brooks Long asked Colorado Springs police about two telephone numbers (both with Colorado Springs area codes) that were used to make calls to a Texas crisis center. One of the phone numbers, the document says, "was possibly related to the reporting party for the YFZ Ranch incident," and was one of the numbers police had connected to Swinton.

The document says the calls were made sometime since October but was not more specific. The raid was triggered by three calls made March 29 and 30 to the Newbridge Family Shelter in Texas.

Texas authorities also are investigating a separate batch of calls made to a crisis center in Washington state.

Authorities have called Swinton a "person of interest" in the Texas case. Two Texas Rangers were with Colorado officials when they searched Swinton's home.

Texas authorities said the search turned up several items suggesting a connection between Swinton and calls regarding the Eldorado retreat and other Texas and Arizona compounds owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect. The items weren't identified.

[mercyme884]

So what do you all think? A LIE IS A LIE IS A LIE. The State of Texas had no right to invade th homes of these people. The State of Texas had no right to seize these innocent children and wreak this havoc in their precious lives.Maybe that female judge has another agenda, maybe she does desire a little girl to bring up her own way. Knowing that these children are raised to be loving obedient children could be just what she is looking for.I believe it was all lies from beginning to end. The civil rights of these people were violated, I hope they sue the devil out of the state of Texas and make enough to put all these children through college.

[cpaide]

and i recommend the following good and honest study for more information on the filthy violent nature of this KLK:

No More Secrets : Violence in Lesbian Relationships
http://www.amazon.com/No-

More-Secrets-Violence-Relationships/dp
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"This study of abuse in lesbian relationships looks you in the eye and dares you to turn away. Far from being a prurient study of a fringe group of violent lesbians, this book demands that the queer community at large--afraid of straight disdain --recognize its accountability. No More Secrets illustrates that despite what many lesbian feminists believe, acts of violence are not committed solely by men."

[cpaide]

Rosita Swinton is a founding member of the KLK (krazy lesbians kult), which conspired to provide a false police report that resulted in the raid on the Texas Mormons.

The objective of the KLK (whose members include the Texas social workers and judge on the case) is to obtain the humble, white Mormon children and adopt them out to infertile lesbian couples, and that is happening right now.

Once these kids are in the hands of the KLK, they''re told there is no such thing as too early for ***. Whenever the head lesbian tells them to go ''marry'' an old lesbian, that''s who they''re given to. They''re groomed to be pedophile fodder. Information presented shows that they''re given to be concubines (not wives - lesbians can''t have wives) at puberty or before, and have un-natural $ex while still children themselves.

[wlmrtpatriot]

I believe Rosita Swinton knew exactly what she was doing. She should be held accountable for her actions.

[watcher269-2009]

The Sect leader must have contributed to the Democratic Party this year - Thus the Raid! Should have donated to the GOP -

[newsterl]

anything they find on a valid search warrent is still valid.
Posted by SusanHelit

Not so fast, when the search warrent specifies WHAT and where they can look, they can''t violate that and still use what they find, cases are thrown out all the time for stuff like that- it''s illegal search and seizure.

[jankebenz]

With lying,stealing,killing,cheating,drugs,immorality,ect, ect, becoming so common now, is it any wonder that the US is coming apart at the seams? Hundreds of inocent kids losing their families and security because of a lying loony, who gets of with a misdemeaner charge, somethings wrong here.

[truthalways]

they found a bed, make up a story with it like they want, they took a 23 yr old , insisted she was under 18, even when she told them so...there are lots of make stories...of course they will find so called-new evidence after their hoax call..coz they did not find no vicim 16 yr old girl...they will make up the evidence, just not to look stupid,after the hoax call....

[truthalways]

CPS will not protect the true abuse kids but will help the state to raid your homes, military style...they said they has warrant for the crooked guy, but they did not arrest him...but they took all the kids away and punish all the parents...just like they kill all the Waco kids cox their parents supposedly had too many guns...

the state will do anything to proove they are right...willl search your home without a search warrant , then make up stories and so-called evidence against you....they have evidence, lots of stories and accusation but no one has been arrested!!!

whatever...this another attempt of the government to infringe on your parental rights...go to support the parentalrights.org before they make laws to take away all your parental rights...if it is not too late...

[jehovahwtnss]

kittykatty2 and Zendigity, I''m with you here. ccdsswrkr08 seems to be a typical "holier than thou" bureaucrat who is quite willing to oppress the innocent along with guilty just because the system says you should, and yet at the same time ignores the rampant abuse within the types of organisation for which she works.

[jehovahwtnss]

Hey McVet, it seems to me that the ones following less than liberal practices are the Texas authorities, so I don''t know why you are shouting Seig Heil at the posters criticising these practices. However, please don''t get the idea that I think the Texas CPS were wrong in the YFZ case, as there seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence of religious brainwashing at that compound

[kittykatty2]

One of the guys had a warrent out for his arrest, the other one was a known *** offender for sexually abusing minors. They were reported to have guns. Who knows what someone with a gun would do when faced with losing their children.


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Posted by ccdsswrkr08 at 11:31 AM : Apr 24, 2008
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ccdssworker you are either very very stupid or very very full of s*h*i*t. Zendigity...you are wasting your time. This person is the kind you should be very very afraid of .

[susanhelit]

Even if the calls were a hoax, that doesn''t change a single thing about what the police saw once they got there. If a police officer gets a call that someone is being held and murdered in your basement, they go in to search, find your meth lab - guess what - you''re going to jail for that meth lab. This has gone all the way to the Supreme Court in the past, and so long as the police didn''t do the hoax, anything they find on a valid search warrent is still valid.

[newsterl]

Seems to me this whole case should be thrown out of court just like it is when the cops illegally search your car and find drugs but had no cause to search it in the first place.
A bogus call equals no just cause, that''s too bad but that''s how it is- otherwise your neighbor can report anything they like via prank call and have your house raided and if the cops happened to find something illegal then what.

[zendigity]

ccdsswrkr08 - Again, you keep applying the extreme to the common in order to justify the government''s abuse of power.
If kids are being abused then yeah, obviously it''s better to move them into another environment; but that isn''t what this is about; this is about the government manufacturing evidence to support what they believed was the right "moral" decision; this is about the government attempting to justify their incompetence through media propaganda in order to deflect focus away from exposing the truth; most of all though, this is about the people that DIDN''T do anything wrong but were still forcefully separated from THEIR CHILDREN because someone else MIGHT have.

[alexma50085]

This is a blantent abuse of government power. Just because you THINK something is happening doesn''t mean that it is going on. How can anyone ethical remove a child from their home, because they THINK there is abuse going on? And if there was some sort of abuse going on in this compound, I sure that it wasn''t happening to ALL 400 children. Government abuse, plain and simple.

[ccdsswrkr08]

Zendigity,

What do you think the future would have been like for the little girls who''s parents were marrying them off to significantly older men and telling them that it was OK if that man hurts them if someone hadn''t stepped in?
The future of these children was not damaged by the government, it was damaged when their parents refused to protect them.
What you''re saying is equivelent to blaming the cop that arrested someone for a serious crime for what ever happens to that person in prison. I''m not comparing foster care to prison because that''s not what it is supposed to be. It''s supposed to be a safe alternative for children who''s family cannot or will not take care of them or have abused them. I can''t vouch for the foster care system in Texas cause (again) I don''t live there, but there has to be an alternative to leaving children in abusive homes.

[charliegirlg]

In the pictures, you see women, girls and a few men. Where are the little boys?

[zendigity]

ccdsswrkr08 - the majority of the kids taken were NOT in ANY immediate danger.

They are now though...placed in the culture shock of a foster care system that will expose them to much greater chances of being abused; oh and to make matters worse, how about a media blitz announcing to the whole world that these kids have grown up with a "perverse understanding" of se*...Gee, what do you think the futures of these children really hold?

[ccdsswrkr08]

Again you''''re generalizing the fringe as though it were the common.
Neglect charges are often assigned to any parent convicted of drug possession regardless of whether the children are actually being negleted; this is done in order to inflate statistics.
Please stop with the propaganda...

Posted by zendigity at 12:14 PM : Apr 24, 2008

I''ll stop when you stop. Show me the law that says CPS is allowed to remove a child from the home SIMPLY because their is drug use going on. It has to be shown that the drug use is specifically imparing the parents ability to take care of the child for that case to be accepted. Unfortunatly (again at least where I come from) this happens to be the case on many occasions. I can''t speak for the rest of the country cause I don''t live there.