Phone number in Texas abuse report linked to Colo. woman

Town Hall ^ | 04 23 08 | GEORGE MERRITT

[Howdy there]

A court document says one phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by a 33-year-old Colorado woman.

It's not yet clear whether authorities suspect Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs made any of the calls that triggered this month's raid of the compound.

An arrest warrant affidavit made public Wednesday says a phone number she had used previously was used for a call to a Texas crisis center before authorities conducted the raid and removed more than 400 children. Swinton's whereabouts are unknown.

Authorities have said a 16-year-old girl called a crisis center claiming she was abused at the compound. Authorities have not found that girl but say they have found evidence other children were abused.

[Howdy there]

I wonder if this means that the raid was based on a false phone call from the git go?

[Howdy there]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5724554.html

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — One phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by a Colorado woman, according to an arrest warrant affidavit made public Wednesday.

The affidavit said a call was placed from that phone number to a crisis center in Texas before authorities there raided a renegade Mormon sect’s retreat and removed more than 400 children.

The affidavit said 33-year-old Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs had used the same number previously, but it was not clear whether authorities suspect Swinton made any of the calls that triggered the raid.

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[Politicalmom]

If the affadavit was made public, why don’t they supply details, or a link, or an image?

[Rick.Donaldson]

I wonder if this means that the raid was based on a false phone call from the git go?

Sure starting to sound like it, so all those people had their rights violated... regardless of the so-called "child rape" charges being bandied about here on FR.

[kozanne]

She is also an Obama delegate. I’m not kidding.
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2008/04/confirmed-shes-obama-delegate.html

[martinidon]

They will use the Dan Rather excuse, fake but accurate....

[Politicalmom]

PING!!

FReepmail to be added to the FLDS El Dorado Legal Case Ping List

[Crim]

Wonder when the religious bigots will chime in and call us all mormons for daring to question the probable cause...

[Politicalmom]

This article has completely different information:

http://www.gazette.com/articles/swinton_35580___article.html/calls_colorado.html

[Howdy there]

The only place I have been able to find actual documents was at The Smoking Gun website.

[Howdy there]

That article has information regarding the fraud she pulled in Co. But it doesn’t go into detail regarding her calls to Texas.

[TheDon]

LOL! It’s much more of a libertarian bent on FR. Rounding 400+ kids is, by definition, a fishing expedition.

[Between the Lines]

Rozita Swinton Doesn’t Like the FLDS

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.

[Howdy there]

The articles already posted in this thread have later publication time stamps.

[Politicalmom]

These articles and affidavit STILL do not connect this caller to the TEXAS shelter.

“A newly released court document says one phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by Rozita E. Swinton.”

She called the shelter in COLORADO and claimed to be “Sarah’s” twin sister. She was alleging abuse in the Texas compound, but
the number has NOT been connected to the original set of calls.

[Howdy there]

A court document says one phone number used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in Texas had been used previously by a 33-year-old Colorado woman.

[Politicalmom]

Your article doesn’t say she made the Texas calls. It says she made accusations of abuse in the Texas compound. That’s two different things.

[Howdy there]

So what is your point?

[colorcountry]

Do you have a link?