COLORADO SPRINGS, June 6 (UPI) -- A judge postponed a hearing Friday for a Colorado woman suspected of making a bogus telephone call that led to the search of a polygamist ranch in Texas.
Frederick Stein, a prosecutor, told the Deseret Morning News that Rozita Swinton's lawyer requested the delay because of the amount of evidence in the case.
Swinton, 33, is charged in Colorado with making a telephone call to police in which she allegedly claimed to be a girl named Dana. "Dana" told police that her father had given her drugs, locked her up and sexually assaulted her.
The Texas raid was triggered by a call from a woman who gave her name as Sarah who said she was a teenager forced into a "spiritual marriage" with a much older man. Texas Rangers raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado and seized more than 400 children, who have since been ordered to be returned to their parents.
Swinton was convicted in Colorado in 2005 of claiming to be a teenage abuse victim named Jessica. Her foster mother says that she suffers from multiple personality disorder and was sexually abused as a child.
