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The convenient failure to prosecute instigator of Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup

A reader helpfully forwards an article from Colorado Springs about Rozita Swinton, the hoax phone caller whose claims to be an abused polygamist bride launched the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup. You may recall Swinton's false claims resulted in what courts later said was the improper seizure by authorities of more than 400 children from the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, claiming their parents had all abused them.Swinton has lately been convicted in Colorado of essentially similar charges, but oddly enough nobody in Texas seems interested in prosecuting her or even really finding out her story. According to her lawyer,to his knowledge, his client is not facing any criminal charges in Texas. ?I believe the phone call in Texas resulted in the prosecution of some people who were sexually assaulting young women,? ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).