An Arizona attorney who represents Warren S. Jeffs will question an activist next week about her conversations with a woman whose calls have been linked to a raid on a polygamous sect's ranch in Texas.

Attorney Michael Piccarreta will depose Flora Jessop on Monday and has asked her to bring any recordings of phone calls with Rozita Swinton, law enforcement in Arizona and Texas and child welfare officials in the two states. The summons asks Jessop for any recordings of telephone calls made between March 22 and April 16.

Swinton, who lives in Colorado Springs, has been linked to telephone calls made in late March to a Texas domestic-violence shelter, which triggered an investigation at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. The caller to the NewBridge Family Shelter in San Angelo, Texas, claimed to be a 16-year-old who was being abused by her husband at the ranch, home to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Jessop, an ex-FLDS member, has previously said she received a call from Swinton on March 30, a day after the first calls to the domestic-violence center. In numerous calls, taped by Jessop, Swinton claimed to be a young girl who was being abused by her husband in Colorado City, Ariz. Jessop relayed that information to Arizona authorities on April 4, but they were unable to substantiate the claims.

Swinton, 33, has an extensive history of charges of making such calls and now faces false-report charges in Colorado for allegedly posing as a young woman being sexually abused by a relative.

Based on the calls, Texas authorities removed 439 children from the ranch and kept them in custody for two months as they looked into allegations of widespread sexual and physical abuse. The children were subsequently returned to their parents, though one girl was returned to state custody in August.

A Schleicher County Grand Jury has indicted twelve men, including Jeffs, on charges related to underage marriages.

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