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Suspected FLDS 'Sarah' to get mental health treatment

Of course Texas is refusing to comment on Rosita Swinton. They used Swinton to obtain entry to the multi-family ranch community and turn the place upside down, hauling off children and whatnot. And it's funny how when CPS got on the ranch late that night they started asking questions about polygamy and underage marriage of girls pulled from their beds. I thought they were supposed to be looking for Swinton, er... Sarah. They knew there was no Sarah to begin with. She was just their pretext for the invasion.

35 million bucks and 393 traumatized innocent children and their parents yet Swinton still remains a "person of interest".

Texas needs to spend a dollar or two on an investigation of Swinton as well as the investigation promised by Meisner concerning conditions at ft Concho.

"No state charges are pending re: Swinton," spokesman Jerry Strickland said in an e-mail to the Deseret News.

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The sheer incompetence of the Texas Rangers is amazing. They�ve been investigating this Swinton character since April, and still no charges. They were unable to find Sarah, and months after everyone knew the sixteen-year-old white Sarah was actually the nearly forty black Swinton, they were still looking for poor Sarah. They were unable to find Sarah�s so-called abuser, even when put on the phone with him. They didn�t bother to interview him until weeks later, and even then they spent just a few minutes doing it. They couldn�t find the nine FLDS men they charged, even thought these men were right under their noses, until they finally broke down and gave out the names. What Keystone cops these are! What an embarrassment for Texas!

I have a most excellent question, which should probably be posed to the grand jury in Texas: "Will there be any indictments for persons who made false claims which provided the catalyst for what we might call "The Texas Anti-Polygamy Escapades" (T.A.P.E.)? If not, then WHY not?

Swinton needs to be put away for the harm she has done and will continue to do if she stays free. This is certainly the most costly hoax (and the Texas law enforcement and CPS have to be the most gullible on the face of the earth) that she has done, but certainly, from the article, this is not the first and probably won't be the last.

She's also an Obama Delegate, right?

hmmm...

concur Joey - like we didn't see this coming a mile away - shame on Texas- ast least they came out better than the Branch Davidians

She's an Obama delegate... LOL!!!!!! The part that disturbs me is the article states she may start treatment. She was arrested in March for petes sake!!!! What has she been doing this whole time? Plotting revenge for her 'wrongful imprisonment'. Delaying treatment for someone who is obviously mentall ill is mental illness in itself!!!!!!!!!!!

Agree this was botched,however the polygamy problems still exist. Underage marriage,incest,the states paying welfare for children of wives 2,3,etc.
The expulsion of young men to provide extra wives for the old men and the cheating on taxes. These adults are takers,not givers like the LDS....and they do it all under the blanket of religion.
At least the Texans responded,which is more than Utah and Arizona do. Polygamy is a crime! Adultery is one of the ten commandments. Any suggestions how to cure this ill?

personally I'd like to give her a medal for exposing the FLDS to the world. At least they will have a much harder time hiding in their little isolated world while they reduce hundreds of children to mini-me's with no hope for a self-determined future.

Come on - let's hear it - "these kids have the same opportunities as any other children..." Yeah - I guess - as long as they're willing to give up everything they know and care about to go off on their own. Hell of a choice. And I'm sure most of you think that's totally fair.

LOL

If you would all read the affidavit where the Texas Rangers found out about Rozita Swinton, you would learn that Texas Rangers knew nothing about her, till the 13 of April.
Nice try though.

Wow...nice attitude there...

lol...Utahlady...saying the FLDS raid was "botched' is the kindest way to phrase it.

I hope Texas fires the whole crew that were involved in the premeditated planning of the raid...especially once it's proven that they knew the call was a hoax.

God bless the lawyers that are fighting for our constitutional rights - and by "our" I mean every US citizen because Texas was sure trying to take them away!

Still no suggestions for solutions!!!..."Give the idiot a medal" sounds frustrated re the treatment of women and young children and limitations they live under,and with good reason. Those of us who witness this close up can see and feel the problems created by this lawbreaking cult,do become frustrated.
God bless anyone who is trying to protect the rights of the FLDS children and the taxpayers too!
Two wrongs do not make a right,and the FLDS need to understand they are infringing on my rights by bringing children into this world and expecting me and others to pay for them ,but they can circumvent the laws of this country,and worse yet the very God they profess to worship. Take away the welfare and tax breaks for not finishing their homes and there will be a lot less of them to support.

Give back your FHA loan, your college grants and loans and pay full price for goods and services made cheaper by government research and perhaps flds will return the food stamp money at yfz........whoops......CPS says there was no government assistance. Go after the government employees that granted the aid.....whoops they followed the law.
Have members give back their SS checks, it's the least you can do.

I am with SLC gal,
The idea that she "may start treatment" is disturbing. Why has she not been in treatment since last March if not long before that? Preferably in a facility where they keep her from using a phone.

On the age issue,
Maybe when the Texas authorities see the pictures of Rozita they figure she looks 16. It is not much more preposterous that the ages of some of their disputed minors.

re -idiot 11:13am

I'm waiting for one of the kids to sue their parents for destroying their ability to choose their future and for filling them with fear of the outside world.

Actually, I think a lot of the kids that went to foster care and back will remember that everyone isn't evil and that may allow them to go off into the world and do their own thing. That would at least make the entire episode not a total loss.

Someone please correct me if I�m wrong, but isn�t this the first time that the �Prophetship� (?) has been handed off to a son? Seems to me if the whole reason that the FLDS was dreamed up was because of following the polygamous lifestyle with tons of kids. Surely the previous Propheteers (?) had son�s they could�ve passed it on to. Why this time? Why to Warren? That�s #1.

#2 To hear the FLDS tell it, under-aged marriages NEVER occurred before Warren. It�s obvious that Warren�s a pedophile, but now he�s shamed his entire religion by turning at-one-point innocent men into pedophiles also. And now they are going to go to jail because of what their Pedophile Prophet forced upon them. How come the FLDS religion allows Warren to be a Pedophile Prophet? Poor little girls, and their own mothers won�t even protect them. Poor little girls, you deserve much better than this.

Another tabloid reader.....

Sheesh

#3 Why do the FLDS people give their leaders so much of their money? The FLDS leaders have proven themselves unworthy by blowing their hard-earned money. Warren was caught with $55,000 in the lining of his suitcase. While his brother had another $142,000 of the hard-earned money earmarked to finance their Pedophile Prophet�s run from his legal and moral responsibilities. All the while continuing to marry little 12-year-old girls. How can the FLDS allow this to happen?

#4 and last. If the FLDS believes EVERY word he speaks, then WHY don�t they believe him when he says he is NOT the true Prophet? And that some man in Canada is the TRUE Prophet? Do the local leaders have too much to lose if the Canadian Prophet were to take over? I thought the FLDS religion wasn�t about the money?

Ask why the Catholics contribute to their church after the priest scandal.......ask why people follow any religious leader.
Millions are made by churches to spread the word of God and some.....hopefully a minority of religious leaders, are crooks.
The money on Jeffs was accounted for in his notes and the "leadership" was aware of the uses for the money. Much of the cash was being transported to other church locations for church work.
I am sure that some money was fir Jeffs personal use but in reality a man on the run has to deal in cash to be untraceable and other than a church owned car he wasn't seen hitting the gambling halls.
The guy...Jeffs .....may have been a religious nut and he certainly wasn't an accountant. The man was in over his head.