Could the complaining witness, "16 year old Sarah Barlow"... really been 33???
This ought to be a legal nightmare. It's possible.... they never found the "Sarah" girl in the compound....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/pol...fri/index.html
(CNN) -- The investigation into alleged abuse at a polygamist ranch in Texas has shifted to Colorado, where police said Thursday that they have arrested a woman for making a false report to police.
Investigators with the Texas Rangers traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado this week "as part of their investigation involving the compound in Texas," the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement.
The reason for their visit was not immediately clear.
The Colorado Springs police statement said its officers charged 33-year-old Rozita Swinton with false reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor. The charge relates to an incident in Colorado Springs in February, but documents related to the case have been sealed "so details of that case cannot be discussed," the Colorado Springs police statement said.
The Texas Rangers "have not filed any charges on Rozita Swinton as of this time," the statement said.
Authorities in Texas raided the YFZ (Yearning for Zion) Ranch in Eldorado, Texas on April 4, removing 416 children. The ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy.
The raid was prompted by a series of phone calls in late March from a 16-year-old officials referred to as Sarah, who claimed she had been beaten and forced to become the "spiritual" wife to an adult man. FLDS members have denied the girl, supposedly named Sarah Jessop Barlow, exists.