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?
Just WHAT did the Lord say?
Just what UNTRUTH did I add?
Is it ALSO written in invisible ink?
Dang!
Ask your 'founder' why he ADDED even another 'way' to be saved; not us!
Maybe you can answer the question that took me out of a Bible only church back in the 70’s.
Answering questions seems to run in one direction.
How can a court uphold a prosecution where the warrant was based upon perjured testimony?
There is no plan B.
One way and one way only.
“Do you understand that it is possible that Democrat dirty tricksters might look for unfolding events and attempt to manipulate them at a convenient time with just an anonymous tip to give them political advantage?”
This strikes me as very similar to the Monika Lewinsky “talking points” and the “intercepted” New Gingrich cell phone call. The timing in this case being arranged perhaps to put Mormonism in a bad light and affect Mitt Romney’s chances of getting the VP slot.
Never get between a Clinton (especially Hillary) and what it wants.
Well...
...that would be just about ANY time!
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Sorry; but your impassioned statement is a bit hyperbolic.
If I ABANDON my home & property where I live; I can guarantee you that it WILL be ‘taken over’ by someone.
When your ‘leader’ yells “Wagons West!”; whatcha gonna do?
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You seem to want to forget that the people who took over the propriety were the ones that drove the saints out.
Do you remember what state it was that the governor signed an order to kill all the Mormons? I remember it was governor Boggs, but I forget the state.
It is in what you post, but you pretend is not there.
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No; you CLAIM it is there, but cannot SHOW it to us.
Why not?
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Reread your post. It is about half way down and easy to see, unless you do not want to find it.
I asked this question a week ago, based what I read and where the investigation seemed to be going.
There would be clear telephone records of this.
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Ok, which of the ways to be saved is the correct one.
A. God saves only the ones He wants, you can do nothing. B. God saves everyone, you can do nothing. C. God makes you do something to be saved.
D. All of the above.
E. none of the above.
I agree. This entire event and the investigation was tainted and mishandled from the very beginning. Everything that follows is suspect.
You seem to forget that they did a VERY poor job of 'driving them out'.
Do you remember what state it was that the governor signed an order to kill all the Mormons?
The STATE did a VERY poor job of 'killing all the Mormons'!
Reread MY post. It is NOWHERE to be seen, unless you do not want to show it to us.
Why can't you just answer...
What did Joseph Smith 'learn' to be UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANISM?
You left out something.
If you bother to read it you will see that it clearly shows that there was underage sex. One young mother told investigators that she was 15 when she gave birth to her first child. Texas law prohibits children under 16 from being married.
Also mothers are allowed to see their children as it clearly states here... As the women boarded separate buses for their chosen destination, they were given a packet explaining how their children would be cared for in coming weeks. The state will work with all of the mothers, no matter where they went, to ensure they can visit their children, Crimmins said.
There has been some changes with the women too as it says here Forty women opted Thursday to go to a family violence shelter rather than return to the West Texas ranch where authorities allege children are unsafe because of the polygamist group's practice of "spiritually marrying" underage girls to older men.
Plus...The department again revised its count of children in state custody upward to 462, saying it believes that 25 females who had said they were adults are instead minors. An affidavit for a second, broader search warrant alleged that investigators found evidence that underage girls were "spiritually married" to older men and forced to have sex.CPS investigators said those practices put all girls at risk of sexual abuse and all boys at risk of becoming men who abuse minor girls.
As for Warren Jeffs, the Great Vile Pervert... Also Thursday, the head of the FLDS, Warren Jeffs, lost a bid for a new trial. A Utah judge rejected the request from Jeffs, who was convicted in September in southern Utah for his role in arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to an older cousin. He is jailed in Arizona awaiting trial in another case.
That is wonderful news! I hope he stays in jail forever! Maybe this will answer some of your questions.
This particular talking point has been repeated and disproven so many times I'm surprised anyone still uses it.
For someone who claims to be a God fearing person I shudder that you mock Him in such a fashion.
Reread your post. It is about half way down and easy to see, unless you do not want to find it.
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Reread MY post. It is NOWHERE to be seen, unless you do not want to show it to us.
Why can’t you just answer...
What did Joseph Smith ‘learn’ to be UNTRUE about PRESBYTERIANISM?
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You are able to read and understand, even though you seem not to want to..
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I am not mocking Father. He knows how we are saved.
I am asking a “Bible only” person which of the many ways the Bible really says we are saved.
Different people have studied the Bible and gotten these many ways to be saved. All from the same set of words.
So again, by your understanding, which way is the right way that God uses to save us?
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