Posted on 04/12/2008 10:22:09 PM PDT by Domandred
ELDORADO, Texas (CNN) -- Texas Rangers on Saturday met with -- but did not arrest -- the man accused by a teenage girl of physically and sexually abusing her at a polygamist compound.
Arizona probation officials said the meeting with Dale Evans Barlow, 50, happened just across the Arizona state line in St. George, Utah.
"The Texas Rangers met with him. He was allowed to go, and no arrest was made," said Friend Walker, director of the Mojave County, Arizona, probation office.
Barlow's attorney, Bruce Griffen, said the meeting was voluntary.
He said he and Barlow are working to gather evidence that his client could not have been in Texas when the crimes are said to have happened.
"We shook hands; we left," Griffen said outside Barlow's home in Arizona.
"They're doing their thing; we're doing our thing. We may meet again. But at this point, Dale is not being arrested, and we are working cooperatively with them, and we made very clear to them that they have made a mistake."
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> Dale Evans Barlow
Was he named after Roy Rodger’s wife, I wonder...?
You have to have a girl come up and announce that she was raped...to start the case. Other than phone calls...the rangers don’t have evidence yet...and I suspect that they may never get adequate evidence. But on the other hand...the state child services unit has more than enough evidence to remove the kids and limit the parents contacting them. In ten days...the local authorities will start lifting the carpet and clearing away any mention of the episode. No guy will ever be arrested...my prediction. But the locals are going be very hostile toward the group from this point on.
I bet he had a few fights as a boy named Dale Evans. Could have at least named him "Trigger", or "Bullet", or even "Roy Rogers Barlow".
So would that be like "A Boy Named Sue?"
I think the fact that they are pregnant and under the age of consent is plenty of evidence that they have been raped.
I think so too.
Thanks.
L
Thanks, I will be glad to send a check.
P.S.
And don’t forget to interview the adult males who brought them to the abortion clinics.
I’m no fan of CPS but I’m going to wait on this one. I’ve read and heard a woman who said she escaped from this compound. She said her and her sister would tell each other “Don’t drink the Kool-aid” as a code because they were so concerned they would all be murdered a la Jonestown.
She said they lived with beatings as a regular part of their life, that they expected to be beaten. She would wear sunglasses to hide the black eyes. She said at least a third of the women were on Prozac and basically live as slaves - they can’t even go to the doctor without their husband’s permission.
What she said doesn’t even hint that the women have any free choice - and what choice they do have is flavored by they are terrified of going to hell if they try and leave. They have children from the time they are young and if they leave, have to leave without the children. She had eight and basically had to make an escape.
So will I. For a while anyway.
I’ve read and heard a woman who said she escaped from this compound.
I 'read and heard' a lot of things about another 'compound' in Texas that belonged to a strange religious group called the Branch Davidians. I also remember how the State of Texas became involved in the largest case of US Government sponsored mass murder in US history since the Trail of Tears.
People can say anything, and frequently will.
It looks to me like the Texas authorities have humped the bunk here. Any evidence they've gathered will most likely be tossed. That's a pity.
L
I read that too - and I have questions about it.
You see, the same informant explained that they knew nothing of the outside world, were never allowed to view any media, or to speak to people not members of the cult. Yet the Kool-aid reference is straight from American popular culture. The Jonestown mass suicide would have taken place when she was very young. I find it puzzling that she was even aware of it.
If they talked about it within the compound, then surely they would give a brief and hostile account of events - this is what the outside world is like. But to say - "don't drink the KoolAid" - is a rather knowing, cynical statement from people well aware of the dangers of fundamentalist cults.
You should know that they frequently ship young girls to their location in Bountiful, British Columbia, and they in turn ship young girls into the United States.
Well, with Byrd sucking with a 0.130 batting average, I guess they're hard up to get ANYONE in center field!
Oh, not those Rangers? Never mind...
Not all the sex fiends were old. They start their life of statutory rape at a younger age
You have a 13 year old daughter? You don't mind some horndog church elder making her pregnant to spread his seed?
Let’s wait on judging; this has been going on for what, a week now? and nobody’s been charged as far as I know. Given the juicy headlines that a DA could milk from a case like this, that argues pretty well that there may be much less here than meets the eye.
Maybe even that Texas didn’t have cause to act.
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