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Why no prosecution of false child abuse report in the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup?

A former supervisor with Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) was fired from the agency in May and now has been indicted for "making a false report of abuse," the Corpus Christi Caller Times reports, which leads me to ponder why we haven't seen similar charges lodged against Rozita Swinton, the prank phone caller whose false accusations of abuse launched the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup in West Texas last spring?Why have they waited so long to pursue criminal charges against a hoaxter whose actions gave CPS (not to mention the legal system in San Angelo) an enormous black eye? Was what this woman allegedly did any worse than Swinton's offense?We still haven't learned, by a longshot, the complete backstory to what happened during the days and hours leading up to the YFZ Ranch raid, and I'm betting a desire by authorities to keep it that way lies at the root of the failure by officialdom to extradite Swinton from Colorado and hold her accountable for reports that were clearly as false as any made by this supervisor.continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).