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FLDS Sarah trial put on hold for mental evaluation

zxcvbnm | 5:32 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

Ok...Swinton will be done with her evaluation before her 09 trial in Colorado.
I hope they lock up the personality that violated Colorado law so that the Sarah personality can get to Texas in time to be saved by Doran.
Perhaps Swinton can just phone in her testimony from her Colorado mental ward.

Gal50 | 6:08 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

If Swinton has multiple personalities, then it is likely she has suffered tremendous abuse as a child. Rather than have Sarah call in false claims of abuse, it might help to treat Rosita for the actual abuse she has suffered.

Although it must be embarrassing to be the focus of publicity for this odd behavior, at least the behavior resulted in some good for some victims.

Joey | 6:18 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

I hope she's mentally fit enough to testify at the end of October regarding the suppression of evidence. Hopefully she can out the Rangers and/or Flora who coaxed her regarding details of the raid, to make the hoax look more authentic. Either that or Ms. Swinton is psychic.

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zxcvbnm | 8:26 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

The funny thing about Swinton is if she testifies that Flora or some other person put her up to this she is too crazy to be believed.
If Swinton denies acting on information provides by someone else....she is too crazy to be believed.
What fun the lawyers will have dealing with and argueing about her testimony.
Perhaps good ole "Sarah" should just be left alone to raise her imaginary daughter "Sarah".
One thing is absolutely certain....."Sarah" is the one pregnant teen that even Voss will not believe is pregnant, a teen, or FLDS.

Bob | 10:17 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

Well put it up to the feds to play this card as long as they still have it. You see if they play it now then they wont have anything else to cover themselves. So drag it out.

Swinton is a scape goat.

Flora and the feds set this whole thing up. How else could you possible gather that kind of man power in such a short notice of anticipating a phone call?????

Oh DUH we just make the phone call to ourselves.

Hey Bob | 10:26 p.m. Sept. 15, 2008

I think you've raised a good point. How DID they get all that manpower together so quickly if there wasn't some sort of advanced planning?

Texas had plenty of time | 6:02 a.m. Sept. 16, 2008

"How DID they get all that manpower together so quickly if there wasn't some sort of advanced planning?"

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Remember that Rozita was calling a Washington state shelter with virtually the same story a week before she called Texas (except she said sheï¿½d been taken from the ranch and was being held at an unknown location). On the same day she spoke with Flora she changed her story, and now she said she was at the ranch. Whether Flora manipulated her or not, it would have been SOP for Washington to let Texas know, and Texas had at least ten days to investigate the call and to gather its troops. My suspicion is they discovered who Rozita was before the raid, but the governor ordered them forward anyway.

Magdalena | 1:07 p.m. Sept. 16, 2008

If you work out the order of events, the raid was several days before they knew it was a hoax. Contrary to the impressions that we get from watching CSI, etc., traces on cellphones are not returned in a matter of minutes. It would be unethical to risk someone's life while you do a trace to verify the call. If that became the practice, then the fire and rescue departments become useless.

You guys just really want to see a conspiracy where there is none.

chomama | 3:00 p.m. Sept. 16, 2008

I'll guess none of you have ever heard of a SWAT team. They stay prepared 24/7 just like the fire dept.

Go to your local library and read up on them. Perhaps some of your children would like to pursue it as a career.

Oh - wait - my bad. You're not allowed to read books about those kinds of things - like real life stuff. And your children are confined to an extremely limited number of careers, most of which involve a plow, or a hammer, or birthing if female.

Sorry. I got confused with another board. Thought I was on the it's-a-big-world-out-there board rather than the you-can-never-have-a-life board.

my bad.

zxcvbnm | 5:04 p.m. Sept. 16, 2008

chomama.....yep you are confused. We live in a free country. A country where cops and tanks don't desecrate churches and detain 400 children. A country where innocent children aren't taken from their parents and held against their will on the calls of a mental midget.
Oh darn, you may be right..........this isn't a free country.....its' Texas

chomama | 8:46 a.m. Sept. 17, 2008

it may be a free country, but not if you're FLDS. No church was desecrated, unless they wouldn't unlock the door, in which case it's their own fault.

and yes, the children are innocent, but not one of the parents are. and THATS the problem. (I use "parents" extremely loosely here because they don't have a clue how to actually be a parent. Their idea of parenting is to isolate, since they are so incapable.)

zxcvbnm | 5:12 p.m. Sept. 17, 2008

Lets try it this way chomama.......the cops broke down the doors to a church.....that's desecration of a church by any definition. The cops entered a religious sanctuary with guns....desecration of a church. The cops ransacked the church and disturbed religious property.......desecration of a church.
The children are in the custody of their parents. The children were held for two months to facilitate the gathering of evidence.....Crimmons words......they are free now with their unindited parents.
291 innocent people children and their parents subjected to illegal acts based on rumor and gossip.

chomama | 9:07 a.m. Sept. 18, 2008

like I said, zxcvbnm -

if they had unlocked the doors, the cops wouldn't have had to break them down.

The church wasn't "ransacked". Only damage was doorframes, and that's because the FLDS wouldn't unlock them.

And if they had answered questions honestly, the children wouldn't have been taken.

Entering a church with guns is not desecration - it's called preparedness. I carry one wherever I go - and if I'm in church when you are and another idiot comes in shooting (as has happened before), you'll be glad I was there.

what don't you understand about that?

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