Posted on 04/23/2008 1:30:49 PM PDT by Between the Lines
Colorado Springs, CO and Eldorado, TX - This is not the first time Rozita Swinton has made up a good story and called authorities. But it’s definitely the first time one of Swinton’s calls produced a mass raid on over 400 people. Swinton, 33, is now facing charges related to the April 3 raid on the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, owned and occupied by members of Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. Rozita Swinton may have set the whole raid off by calling a San Angelo crisis center on March 29, saying she was a young girl named Sarah who was being abused.
Rozita Swinton is a soft-spoken young woman with what police call “a baby voice”. She’s her neighborhood delegate to the Obama campaign. She is single, without children, pays her bills and works for an insurance company. By all accounts, she is a giving person, allowing her roommate to move in after the Eldorado raid had begun. But Swinton has called in false reports before, tying up police and social resources for weeks at a time.
In June 2005, Swinton was arrested in Castle Rock, Colorado after she called an adoption agency posing a teenaged pregnant girl. Swinton told the agency and police that she was young, pregnant, alone and thinking of killing herself after leaving the baby at a fire station. There was no baby. There was no teenager. There was only Rozita Swinton, who had no explanation for what she’d done. Police charged her with filing a false police report, and she is on probation for that case.
In February of this year, a swarm of Colorado Springs police officers went out looking for a thirteen-year-old who said she was locked in a basement. Nope - it was Rozita Swinton again. That case is still pending.
Flora Jessop, a former FLDS member who escaped and now runs a crisis center, says that Swinton repeatedly called her posing as a young abused girl. Jessop said she first got a call March 30 (the day after the San Angelo hotline call) from Swinton, who said she was an abuse victim named Sarah. Swinton had done her research, but missed a few key points over the 30-50 hours of phone conversations Jessop taped. And the man Sarah claimed was her husband is a well-known polygamist FLDS member who doesn’t live at the Eldorado compound at all. That was one of several clues that led authorities to Swinton’s door.
Is Rozita Swinton a wingnut, or a misguided angel of mercy trying to save the abused children of the FLDS? Investigators are still looking for Sarah, on the off-chance that she does exist. But Texas Rangers have already been to Colorado, where they found books and “items of interest” in Swinton’s apartment. The hotline call has been traced and appears to come from Swinton. On the other hand, there is evidence of prolonged and ritualized sexual abuse on the Yearning For Zion compound, even down to a marital bed in the temple itself and many minor children who are pregnant or have had babies by much older relatives. Rozita Swinton may be a nutball. She may also have saved over 400 lives.
Heroine or criminal or both, Swinton remains under investigation by multiple agencies today. She is charged with false reporting in Colorado and may be facing probation violation charges and other charges as well. I don’t know what I think about this one - what do you think?
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During the Civil War, the South offered the Saints statehood if they would send troops fight with the South.
The Latter-Day Saints (LDS) stayed true to the United States, even though the government did not help address the wrongs done to the Saints, before being forced out of what was the United States at that time.
Thanks again for posting what the Father and the Son taught Joseph Smith when he went to them in prayer.
Can YOU tell us just what Joseph Smith 'learned' (not believed) was UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANISM?
About 40 years passed after the end of the Civil War before the Feds were able to convince the LDS Church (through brute force) to officially end polygamy.
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But... but...
. . . I saw exactly what would come to pass if there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. . . .
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Thanks again for posting God’s words to one of His Prophets.
SOMEbody did a mighty poor job of FORCING anyone; since a big bunch of LDS folks decided to stay behind and thrive.
(Don't you wish YOUR group had title to the properties that the old RLDS has? ;^)
Well there is not shortage of conspiracy theories on the way this sect was busted. I was reading on another blog one person wonders if this Rozita was set up because she was black and poor since the authorities had to get ‘somebody’ -while the caller ‘Sarah’ is laying dead in a ditch somewhere. The blogger was saying it’s probably because ‘Sarah’ is white and Rozita is black.
People will concoct the most outrageous stuff to justify their own weirdness.
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Why do you folks keep leaving out the rest of the statement?
Remember, the baby must not have a chance of living past the birth, not just have any deformity.
But then again, you folks need something bad to say about the LDS, so you often forget the rest of our teachings and make a hale-truth look like what you want it to be.
I agree: ripping these children from their parents is about as traumatizing an event as could ever happen to them, perhaps equal to whatever sexual abuse some have experienced. And what of the children to whom no sexual abuse was perpetrated? They are now scarred for life just as deeply. I am speaking from first-hand experience, here, not just spouting an opinion.
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You seem to not care if you confuse the actions of the Flds with the LDS Church. Again the Flds has nothing to do with the LDS Church.
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I saw him do it.
Now, you can also do it.
Or you can keep saying what you are saying.
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You really should reread the official statement again and see how your people have misrepensted it.
Can YOU tell us just what Joseph Smith ‘learned’ (not believed) was UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANISM?
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This isn’t the first thread I have answered this for you.
It is even in the part of the scriptures you keep posting.
And if you want to know why Joseph was speaking about Presbyterianism, as you often ask,you should read the part of the scripture that come before what you post.
That answer is there if you would study the rest.
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SOMEbody did a mighty poor job of FORCING anyone; since a big bunch of LDS folks decided to stay behind and thrive.
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Yep, a few stayed behind, but not as a group, and not as a voting block, but as a few here and a few there.
Ahhh, I did say “you clarified” but that does not make wideawakes statement untrue.
Keep trying.............
Ok, this post got me, I do not have a clue as to the point.
My people?
I don’t have “people” but if I did they would be talking to your people regarding your posts because much of the time I am just not getting your points.
The way you post here, and what you say here, looks to me that your among the anti-Mormon people.
Just hoping against hope......ok, that doesn’t work I am LOL, tried to be serious......
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The point is that the answer is there and you chose to make it look like it is not.
Go study and you can find it if you really missed it.
Nope.
I am anti-unBiblical truths.
Ok, let us review:
when you say someone is not telling the truth - you are calling them a liar.
When you say someone is not telling the whole truth, I guess you could argue you are calling them half a liar.
No, that just does not work: not telling the whole truth, half a truth, only a smidgen of the truth accusation is calling someone a liar.
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