Posted on 05/24/2008 4:40:08 PM PDT by anymouse
It was the call for help that launched one of the largest raids on a religious compound in U.S. history.
But on Monday, a Child Protective Services attorney asked for the case involving a 16-year-old known as "Sarah," who claimed sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, to be dropped.
The state has all but declared the call a hoax after the phone number was traced to a Colorado woman with a history of pretending to be an abused child. The Texas Department of Public Safety even withdrew its arrest warrant against Dale Barlow, alleged husband and Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sect member.
But CPS has not confirmed whether it thinks "Sarah" is real or not, saying that the call didn't force the removal of 463 children, and that what the agency found — which has yet to be truly revealed — did.
Early Monday, CPS attorney Gary Banks asked that the case of "Baby Jessop," naming Sarah as the mother and Barlow as the father, be dismissed.
"We're not saying that the child doesn't exist, but at this time we don't believe she's in our custody," Banks said.
We should all be grateful the outcome wasn't anything like Waco.
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I still believe that there will be casualties from this raid in the form of human debris who go through life with a pain of disillusionment that they try to heal through sex and drugs.
This had to have been a tramatic experience for the kids. But the after effects won’t manifest themselves for years.
Google “Rozita Swinton”. She was the one who called in the false reports (several times). And she was nearly a pledged Obama delegate to boot (she is a local precinct delegate, #269 El Paso County, who, after her arrest, was not selected to represent her district at the convention)! She simply planted names from newspaper clippings of previous cases.
One is left to wonder how often lives are ruined and families separated by such phone calls to the authorities. The other side of the coin is that false claims dilute the efforts of victims and concerned citizens to report real crimes. Just like those guilty of false rape accusations, those found making false reports such as these should spent a long time behind bars.
Sorry, but it’s a heck of a lot more “traumatic” for a teenager to be “married” to a 60 yr old and to have known since birth that this was her fate. It’s also pretty traumatic for young men to have to flee (or turn to homosexuality) because they will never marry and theywere brought up as psychological captives by this cult. It’s also traumatic for these kids because many of them don’t even know who their mothers are; you may have a fantasy of home and mommy, but that sure wasn’t the life these kids had.
Texas was right. Take them out of there and give them a shot at a real life. Especially the girls, who were being bred for the same cow-like herd slavery “enjoyed” by their mothers (whom they can’t even identify...does that tell you something?).
We should all be grateful the outcome wasn’t anything like Waco.
Indeed we should. Of course it wasn’t for lack of trying. A few more allegations and who knows, and if it had all been left up to the screaming bunch of rabble rouser’s located right here on Freerepublic, we could have had a good old fashioned hanging. Oh wait a minute, I think that did happen.
It was in the court of public opinion.
This type of stupidity makes one think that these CPS workers are the stereotype mind-numbed drones that work in these bureaucracies living off the public trough. It also makes one worry about their performance when there is a legitimate case of abuse. How many situations have there been where a call out to CPS is ignored until some little child turns up dead?
I wonder how many children this “cult” aborts every year?
Call for help????????
Although impossible in today's USA because it make too much sense, the entire modus operandi of Child Protective Services should be thoroughly reviewed. Apparently there is no oversight and too much power allowed to that organization for it to so easily mobilize the resources of the State of Texas on a baseless charge. IMO CPS is guilty of a hate crime! They are not alone because they have the main stream media supporting them every step of the way with their gleeful suggestions of sexual abuse of minors and their obscene biased reporting. Frankly the MSM feeding frenzy and warped and twisted reporting were disgusting, including Fox News.
Perhaps the underlying issue is being overlooked because there is no adult supervision of a lesbian dominated CPS, IMO. We are all too afraid to point out that the king has no clothes.
The thing that truly bothered me was the assumption of guilt on our part before they even knew the whole story. We were guilty; end of story. They never even considered asking us if we knew about the situation before they started making threats. So, I have no problem believing that the CPS in Texas is staffed by people with the same "we can do anything we want to you and you have to like it or else" attitude the agent in UT displayed.
So, I've got to wonder: Were the FLDS kids any better with CPS than they were with their parents? How many times have we heard of stories of children who were supposed to be in CPS custody were abused, raped or killed? Now, I'm sure there are good CPS agents. I just haven't met one yet.
Yes, I can see it now. a bunch of fifty something men, with multiple women and children, filing a law suit. That is really a good one. Think up a couple more like that and you will be on Saturday night live.
Who knows? The State wanted to be “Nanny” and now they are, no matter the baselssness of the charge, it’s the seriousness of the accusations that matters....
This whole situation stinks. Thankfully, another Waco was avoided. Good thing Janet Reno was not around.
The state has all but declared the call a hoax after the phone number was traced to a Colorado woman with a history of pretending to be an abused child.
They still can't bring themselves to say the truth, even though they participated in the investigation of Ms. Swinton, and the affidavit in support of her arrest warrant for the hoax calls relies on the statements of Texas law enforcement officers.
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