Rangers meet alleged sect abuser
Texas law enforcement officials met in Utah with the man accused of abusing the 16-year-old girl whose call for help triggered a raid on the West Texas compound of a secretive polygamous sect.
Dale Barlow, 50, of Colorado City, Ariz., has denied physical and sexual assault allegations made in a March 29 telephone call to a Texas domestic violence hotline.
A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety offered few details of the interview between Barlow and Texas Rangers.
No arrest has been made.
Barlow has said he doesn’t know the girl, whom Texas child welfare officials have not located. In her phone call, the girl said that she was pregnant with her second child and that her husband beat her when he was angry.
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