Rozita Swinton's case now is scheduled to be heard in a three-day trial starting Oct. 20. The 33-year-old - who appeared in an El Paso County District courtroom with her attorney, David Foley - did not make any statements during her pre-trial conference. It had originally been scheduled for June 6 but was postponed.

Swinton is charged in Colorado with making a false report to police in February. She allegedly posed as a young woman claiming she was being sexually abused by a relative. She has not been charged in connection with the April 3 raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ranch near El Dorado. More than 400 children were removed from the polygamous sect, but have since been returned.

The raid was triggered by calls to the NewBridge Family Shelter, where staffers spoke with someone who identified herself as Sarah, a pregnant 16-year-old girl being abused by her husband at the ranch. Colorado Springs police confirmed cell phone numbers used in two calls and provided by Texas Rangers matched numbers used by Swinton. She remains under investigation in Texas.
    - Lisa Rosetta

Sure is odd there's not the same rush in her case as there was to insanely persecute the FLDS.

Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety

Also see-
http://familyrights.us/news/archive/2008/flds/april_2008.html#doper

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/061808dntexpolygamists.3bfbcd3.html

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - More than two dozen families have returned to a polygamist ranch in west Texas.
Texas Child Protective Services says that 143 children are back at the ranch, living in 30 households. Another 178 children, from 33 families, are living in the San Antonio area.

More than 400 children were taken from the ranch in April after Texas authorities suspected some of the children were being abused. A judge later ruled that they should be returned home.

The ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which practices polygamy.

Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com

So much for the "one extended family" theory

Does she look like a teenager to you? If so, you're qualified to work for the Texas CPS: Sarah, a 37-year-old (yes, that's thirty-seven) "disputed minor" parent, embraces her beautiful daughter after the child was pried from the hands of her State-employed kidnappers.

It still isn't over.

Despite a consistent string of legal defeats and a resounding loss in the court of public opinion, the State of Texas and its child-abduction auxiliary are continuing their jihad against the families of Eldorado's FLDS community.

In doing so the criminals in this matter -- the child "protection" officials who kidnapped the children, and the law enforcement officers who acted as armed accomplices -- are, with the timely help of officials in Utah, making a desperation play for public sympathy by accusing the FLDS of plotting some variety of violent revenge.

Of course, in this entire affair, one side -- the State of Texas -- has told nothing but lies, while the other -- the FLDS parents -- has told the truth, as far as we've been able to determine. And exactly the same division is apparent regarding the use, or threatened use, of violence: One side deployed APCs and sniper teams, the other surrendered without resistance.

Yet we are to believe that the Mighty Child Protectors are mortally imperiled by ... well, by what, or by whom? By such FLDS "enforcers" as "Willie the Thug" Jessop, the FLDS spokesman at YFZ Ranch, last seen politely rebuffing a group of armed CPS investigators and Sheriff's deputies who sought to search the premises without a warrant? Apparently so.

Much of the information about the putative FLDS rogue's gallery was assembled by Kirk Smith, the Sheriff of Utah's Washington County (which includes Hildale, the Utah side of the border-straddling FLDS community). Smith had previously described the FLDS as "docile." Now he considers them to be potentially dangerous. The only thing that's changed is this: The people described in that dossier are now victims of government abuse, and are therefore suspected of harboring criminal intent by the criminals who victimized them.

On the basis of yet another fact-starved and insinuation-obese document, Judge Barbara Walther -- who issued the orders leading to the YFZ raid and the child abduction -- has been given round-the-clock protection by the Texas Rangers. Granted, Walther should be the subject of constant police attention -- but as an inmate, not a judge.

...The CPS isn't shopping the case around in search of a judge who's in the tank for them; they've found the judge they want -- one with a background in the totalitarian practice of "family law," one willing to ignore every principle of due process and defy every canon of judicial ethics in order to facilitate the CPS's assault on the FLDS community.

Full Story

A University of Texas law professor said one thing Child Protective Services can take away from its raid on the polygamist sect's YFZ Ranch is to "think before you act."

"They didn't consider the ramifications of their actions," said John J. Sampson, a UT law professor who specializes in children's rights.

...Sampson said CPS has a tried-and-true standard operating procedure for instances of suspected abuse. Which flies in the face of the law and the Constitution.

..."What are you going to change?" Sampson said. "Nothing jumps out at you." Dear God. You have to be kidding.

...Sampson said it is unlikely that sect members would succeed if they opted to sue the state for damages. He said the state is structured in a way that prevents people from successfully suing it for rendering its services.  Mindless ATTACK based on ANONYMOUS FALSE ALLEGATIONS is NOT "services".

Lawsuits against individuals accused of acting with malicious intent or not acting in accordance with the law are more likely to gain traction, Sampson said, speaking generally.

....THEY WASTED MONEY, TOO

Though by far the most important tragedy is the harm to children's lives, CNN.com has a very good story about all the money Texas taxpayers have squandered on the case so far. (It's written by Ashley Broughton, a very good reporter who, some years ago, covered child welfare for The Salt Lake Tribune). This story puts the state cost at $7 million. Other stories have covered this ground, and offered different estimates, but in this piece Broughton gave some examples of how that money could have been spent instead:

For comparison, $7 million would pay for 137 police officers in the city of Mesquite, Texas, at a salary of $51,060, according to a figure from a job posting. It would also pay for 180 new teachers at the average statewide salary of $38,857 given by the Texas State Board for Educator Certification and would more than double resources available for a state program aimed at children of incarcerated parents, according to the state's budget for fiscal 2008-09. In that budget, the program receives $5 million.

Allow me to add a few other examples: $7 million could have put 1,400 families through Intensive Family Preservation Services intervention at $5,000 per family. These programs have a far better track record for safety than foster care. (They're discussed in detail in NCCPR Issue Papers 10 and 11). This money also could have provided $600-a-month rent subsidies for a year for 972 families, so their children would not be taken away because of housing problems. They could have provided $100-a-week in day care assistance for 1,346 children, so those children wouldn't be taken away on "lack of supervision" charges. And they could have put 378 parents through inpatient residential drug treatment programs (at $18,500 per parent) where their children could have remained with them – again, something far better for children than being thrown into foster care.

Of course, not all the $7 million was wasted. It made sense to investigate carefully and make case-by-case determinations concerning whether any children were abused or at imminent risk of abuse. So spending money to investigate was reasonable. Of course, given how the investigation was conducted, it could be argued that this money was wasted as well.

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An Internet campaign has been launched calling for the impeachment of the Texas judge who ordered hundreds of children at the compound owned by the Fundamental Latter Day Saints church taken into state custody.

The online campaign, found at GoPetition.com, targets Texas District Judge Barbara Walther, whose rulings later were overturned.  

I have signed it, how about you?
http://www.gopetition.com/online/19682.html

Mothers of the roughly 450 children taken from the polygamist sect's YFZ Ranch can now begin retrieving their children from shelters across the state, as an order signed this morning by 51st District Judge Barbara Walther went into effect at 10 a.m.

The order was required after the Texas Supreme Court last week agreed with a lower court that Walther should not have granted the state's Child Protective Services agency custody of the children in an en masse April hearing. It places a number of restrictions on the mobility of the parents and children while a CPS investigation into alleged sexual abuse at the ranch continues.

"We are very pleased," said Julie Balovich, an attorney with texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which filed the petitions that ultimately overturned Walther's April decision.

The order prohibits the children from leaving the state, requires parents to keep the state informed of where they are living and allows CPS to make unannounced visits any day between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

CPS will continue its investigation into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, said spokeswoman Shari Pulliam

"The court's order ensures the state's investigation of abuse and neglect continues," Pulliam said. "It never stopped. It's been going on since that day." Full Story

The problem with that is, CPS does not know how to INVESTIGATE.  They are (misnomer) "Child Advocates".  They are mindless communist robots.  They know only how to do Character Assassination, second-hand innuendo, and "evidence" fabrication from thin air.  This is NOT just a Texas problem.  The standard CPS totalitarian mode of operation is a PANDEMIC PLAGUE in every country in the Westernized World.

Police link years of calls to Swinton
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/01/2008 12:09:07 AM MDT

Abuse calls from 'Sarah' convinced others that 'she has lived this'
By Lisa Rosetta
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/01/2008 12:08:40 AM MDT

The Polygamy Files:
The Tribune's blog on the plural life
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Back to the beginning

A couple days ago, we put this on the front page of AFRA, asking for some Investigative Reporting on Rozita Swinton.  Ask, and you shall receive.

 The largest child custody case in U.S. history - discredited last week by the Texas Supreme Court - was prompted by soft-spoken Sarah Barlow's pleas for help.

That Sarah doesn't exist. But the caller may have been a woman who, like the fictitious girl, claims to have endured childhood sexual abuse.

Police have linked the calls that triggered the Yearning for Zion Ranch raid to Rozita Swinton, a 33-year-old Colorado Springs woman who they say has assumed at least nine different personalities since 2005, among them "April," "Dana," "Ericka" and "V." Full Story  A MUST READ!