Texas Rangers are investigating whether Sarah really exists, and have named a 33-year-old Colorado woman as a "person of interest" in their probe. Rozita Swinton was arrested on charges of making a hoax call to Colorado police claiming to be an abused child in distress. The Texas Department of Public Safety said it has asked state and federal prosecutors to review evidence they seized when Swinton was arrested, and review the case for possible charges in Texas.

Many FLDS members interviewed by the Deseret News insist the calls to the Texas hotline were a hoax.

"I am convinced it is a hoax and I believe that Texas authorities should have put a little more effort in checking it out before they went in and acted so precipitously in taking every child on the ranch," Parker said.

Regardless of that call, child protective services authorities said what they discovered upon entering the ranch led to the removal of the children. Parker suggested it was colored by the allegations from the phone calls.

"By then there was a certain mindset because of this call," he said. "The fact that they went out there and found what they found does not justify the removal of every child on the ranch."

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Contributing: Nancy Perkins

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