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Phone number in Texas abuse report linked to Colo. woman
Town Hall ^ | 04 23 08 | GEORGE MERRITT

Posted on 04/23/2008 1:01:12 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; flds; jeffs; polygamy; swinton
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To: Little Bill

It’s not false swearing if they believe what they’re swearing to.

They said they got a call, purported to be from the girl, and want a search warrant to check it out. That’s all true.

I supposet there’s a chance this will affect the criminal cases, but I haven’t found anyone that said it would affect the childrens’ status.


61 posted on 04/23/2008 2:29:17 PM PDT by Politicalmom (The children were taken because they were either being raised to be raped, or raised to be a rapist.)
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To: Judith Anne; colorcountry
Here. Right in this thread: post 46

Note that when this poster references the FLDS moniker, they spell it "fLDS", in colors, so nobody can miss their point about lumping all LDS into the activities by the FLDS.

62 posted on 04/23/2008 2:33:18 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Between the Lines

I am perfectly calm.

Instead of addressing the issue of whether or not charges have been filed against Ms. Swinton, you are spinning this into irrational claims against me. It is you who posted articles that lie. Do you care to issue a retraction?

Is Rosita Swinton facing charges in connection with this case? Can you give us a legitimate link? One perhaps from a news source?


63 posted on 04/23/2008 2:34:32 PM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Between the Lines

sounds like this woman needs mental help.......what a sad pathetic person.......explains a lot that she is a dem delegate doesn’t it? rme


64 posted on 04/23/2008 2:34:33 PM PDT by tioga
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I don’t think I have seen that! Nor have I been called, referred, or hinted at being.


65 posted on 04/23/2008 2:35:27 PM PDT by killermedic ("discipline isnÂ’t reserved for times of combat....only tested there.")
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To: dirtymac

—watch out for a red pick up truck with FL plates heading to Texas!!!


66 posted on 04/23/2008 2:36:08 PM PDT by tioga
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To: colorcountry

Yes, our knowledge of the case is changing hourly as more facts come out. At some point a person will NOT be arrested for something, and then at a later point they WILL be arrested, and the old article that said they were not yet arrested will still be viewable.

Nice thing is, if we all stop jumping to conclusions and making final pronouncements, the truth will trickle out and we will all know it.

In the meantime, there are many things that have been posted as fact that were simply “what was known”, and may now be known false, but the threads will hold them for posterity.

Any time there is breaking news, it’s best to have a new thread a week later where you can post what is NOW known as fact, because the original thread is almost always useless for knowing the truth.


67 posted on 04/23/2008 2:36:49 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: nomorelurker

WOn’t matter. If it wasn’t that Dave, it was someone else. The story will be fake, but accurate.


68 posted on 04/23/2008 2:38:39 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Howdy there

Where is the link to story?? Of so called court document?


69 posted on 04/23/2008 2:41:17 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

In colors?


70 posted on 04/23/2008 2:44:47 PM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Howdy there

Is there a link to this affy? That would help clear this up. Reporters have been known to get things wrong. I’d like to see the original document.


71 posted on 04/23/2008 2:47:35 PM PDT by MizSterious (The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Someone last night was suggesting that the original crisis center call HAD to have been legit, because the caller said her name was “Sarah Jessop Barlow,” and the authorities now have four girls by that name in protective custody. So Sarah must be one of these girls, not some crazy lady in Colorado.

As if a scam artist with Google couldn’t come up with a fake name like “Sarah Jessop Barlow”! Everybody in that compound is a Jessop or a Barlow.


72 posted on 04/23/2008 2:48:14 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. (Psalms 82:6))
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To: Politicalmom

Here is one of the orginial storys about the woman, http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15928947/detail.html


73 posted on 04/23/2008 2:48:39 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Crim

I meant the FReepers who are objecting to the Texas fishing expedition are motivated by their libertarian bent. The villifiers you mention are motivated by their MDS. :-)


74 posted on 04/23/2008 2:50:07 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: Choose Ye This Day

you just need to go ahead and fall in line and agree that these “cultists” deserved their rights to be violated!
/sarc


75 posted on 04/23/2008 2:50:22 PM PDT by killermedic ("discipline isnÂ’t reserved for times of combat....only tested there.")
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To: trisham

And there was that little issue about the fact that they could have nabbed Koresh on any number of times he was away from the compound, without endangering the whole group.


76 posted on 04/23/2008 2:50:41 PM PDT by MizSterious (The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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To: MizSterious

HEY! We are not interested in any suggestions that there is a similarity between the Branch Davidians and the FLDS and the way the govt trampled their rights on this thread. so you go ahead and fall in line.
/sarc


77 posted on 04/23/2008 2:54:10 PM PDT by killermedic ("discipline isnÂ’t reserved for times of combat....only tested there.")
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To: Politicalmom

Here is the news story that put the lie to this whole silly post:http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695271689,00.html


78 posted on 04/23/2008 2:54:45 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: org.whodat
"This BS story and that BS question has been answered several times."

We could almost put it on a macro, it's been asked so many times. I'm starting to think it's not that they truly want the answer, it's that they're trying to create a smokescreen to detract from what's been going on at that ranch.

79 posted on 04/23/2008 2:56:19 PM PDT by MizSterious (The Republican Party is infected with the RINO-virus)
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To: org.whodat

But this is a new affidavit, SUPPOSEDLY alleging that Swinton’s # was used to call the Texas shelter.

The problem is, the affidavit is for a completely different case. Why would they be mentioning the Texas case in a Colorado court case about an event that happened months before this Texas event?


80 posted on 04/23/2008 2:57:40 PM PDT by Politicalmom (The children were taken because they were either being raised to be raped, or raised to be a rapist.)
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