COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 24, 2008
Hoaxer's Phone Linked To Sect Abuse Calls
Missing Colo. Woman Claimed Multiple Personalities; Charged With Making False Abuse Reports
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Rozita Swinton, 33, of Colorado Springs, 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. (KEYE)
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Play CBS Video Video Texas AG Defends Polygamy Raid As women from a raided polygamist sect claim civil rights violations, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott tells Harry Smith authorities were right to remove children from danger.
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Video Polygamy Kids In Foster Care Over 100 children removed from a polygamist compound in Texas have been placed in foster care. The sect claims its rights are being violated. Randall Pinkston reports.
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Video FLDS Kids Sent To Foster Homes The first of over 400 children removed from a Texas polygamist sect have been sent to foster care facilities, as legal proceedings against the sect continues. Randall Pinkston reports.
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Photo Essay Separation Anxiety Some mothers in polygamist sect separated from children as part of abuse investigation.
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Photo Essay Polygamist Compound Raid Secret calls from alleged abuse victim lead to raid of religious sect's compound.
The calls that triggered the raid were made by someone using the name named Sarah Barlow, according to Long.
Flora Jessop, executive director of the Child Protection Project, a Phoenix-based organization that helps girls and women leaving the polygamous culture, said she has recorded nearly 40 hours of conversations with someone who said her name was Laura. "She claimed to be the twin sister of Sarah, who made the initial call in Texas," said Jessop, a former member of the FLDS church.
The caller got most of the details of the sect right, from specifics of the religion and culture, to the of homes in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., where she said she was being held, Jessop said. She added, however, that other things she said made her suspicious, such as calling her parents "Mom" and "Dad" instead of "Mother" and "Father," as FLDS members do.
Texas' child welfare agency says its investigation into the ranch, including interviews with children, has found evidence of abuse. They allege that the sect encourages adolescent girls to marry older men and have children, and that boys are groomed to become future perpetrators. Sect members deny the allegations.
Documents related to Swinton's arrest had been sealed by a judge at the request of Texas authorities. The arrest warrant affidavit was released Wednesday after The Associated Press filed a motion to unseal the records Monday.
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authorities suspect Swinton made the calls that triggered the raid of the compound.
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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.
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.
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...
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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