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Search warrants for polygamist compound may be invalid

By Gritsforbreakfast

Increasingly I'm coming to think that the case against the Eldorado polygamist compound may be a setup job. Certainly the warrants used to sweep into the compound and remove more than 400 children by force seem inadequate, and the church will ask a court today to quash them.I have no idea what would happen then to the 400+ kids taken from the compound. What a mess!Why could the warrants be tossed out? For starters, the initial warrant named the wrong person. Dale Barlow, the 50-year old man who an anonymous phone call accused of marrying and assaulting an underage girl. Barlow is actually on probation living in Arizona, says he's never met the girl in question, and has not been arrested. According to the Salt Lake City Tribune:Joni Holm, who has helped children leave the FLDS, said the teenager who called officials on March 29 and 30 and claimed she was abused is married to a different, younger man...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).