Rat Says: Mainstream media has sat on this story for 2 days now!!!!!!!

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One former FLDS member, Flora Jessop, of Phoenix, who has been an outspoken critic of polygamist practices, says she thinks she may have talked to Swinton on the phone, with Swinton claiming to be Sarah’s twin sister. Jessop claims to have hours of tapes of the conversations with Swinton and says they began before the raid on March 30.

Jessop said the caller also talked about alleged abuse at property owned by FLDS members in Colorado City, Arizona. Colorado City is home to a large number of FLDS members.

Jessop says the woman she believes is Rozita Swinton called again Thursday morning after Swinton bailed out of the El Paso County Jail.

“I did get her to admit to me her name was Rose,” Jessop said.

The affidavit for the case in Colorado Springs has been sealed, but Jessop says police arrested Swinton for making false calls somewhere in Colorado, claiming to be an abused child.

9NEWS has learned that Swinton was arrested in Castle Rock two years ago for making a false report. 9news.com

Springs woman may have posed as abused cult member
By Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 04/18/2008 04:52:17 PM MDT

Flora Jessop, a former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member, said she first received a call from a woman, since identified as Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs, claiming to be an abuse victim named Sarah on March 30.

Authorities say a girl with the same name called a San Angelo, Texas, hotline March 29, claiming she was 16 and “spiritually married” to a man who would “beat and hurt her” whenever he became angry.

But the hotline call wasn’t publicized until after authorities raided the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, on April 4. There they took custody of more than 400 children.

“It does kind of indicate (Swinton) made those calls,” Jessop said. “There was no press on it at the time.”

Swinton, 33, was arrested at her home Wednesday evening on charges of false reporting in two Colorado cases, but Texas Rangers were present for the arrest, Colorado Springs police said.

Texas Rangers spokesman Tom Vinger said today that he could not comment about Swinton.

Jessop, who operates a rescue mission for teenage girls trying to escape the sect, said she recorded between 30 to 40 hours of daily phone conversations with Swinton, who alternately claimed to be Sarah; Sarah’s twin sister, Laura; and Laura’s friend.

“She initially said her name was Sarah and she was sexually abused by her new dad,” Jessop said.

Swinton would call Jessop after 8:30 p.m. at night and speak in a subdued voice because she said that is when others in the compound were sleeping.

“She was very convincing,” Jessop said. “She very much thought this out.” The person obviously had studied the FLDS culture, she said.

Jessop became suspicious and contacted the Texas Rangers after the same person, who sounded like a frightened young girl, called saying she was Sarah’s sister and lived in Colorado City.

Jessop sent recordings to the Texas Rangers, who traced the calls to Swinton’s phone……. denverpost.com

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