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Show Monday, April 7, 2008 DAILY HERALD A3 Busloads of women, children taken from FLDS c ompoimd V Michelle Roberts '""""" J THE ASSOCIATED " r- PRESS ELDORADO, Texas -A- u-i thorities who removed 219 women and children from a porygamist compound were struggling Sunday to deter- mine whether they had the 1 girl whose report J of an underage marriage led" them to raid the sprawling rubral property. . Many people at the com-- , pound, built by followers of J jailed polygamist leader Warden Jeffs, are related to one an- other and sllare similar names; investigators said in some case they were giving different ' names at different times. Investigators on Sunday bused them out of Eldorado, nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio, as other law enforcement agents continued to search for more children and evidence at the 1,700-acr- e . compound, the former site of an exotic game ranch. State troopers armed with a search warrant raided the compound on Friday to look for evidence of a marriage between the girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and a man. Under Texas - J- V - V M - TONY GUTIERREZAssociated Press Law enforcement officials assist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints onto a school bus in Eldorado, Texas on Sunday. The group was relocated to San Angelo, Texas. law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval. The women and children were taken out of the compound Friday and Saturday and had been staying in a local church and civic center. By midday Sunday, dozens of women and children, mostly girls, were seen boarding buses on their way to San Angelo, a larger town 45 miles away. The women wore long pastel ... dresses and many carried bedding; several had infants. Officers entered the temple on the grounds late Saturday, but by Sunday they still had not located the whose initial report of abuse led to the raid. "There were some tense moments last night, but everything has remained calm and peaceful and they are continuing their search," Allison Palmer, a prosecutor from a nearby county handling the case, said early Sunday. Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services, said investigators were still trying to determine whether the girl who called authorities last week was among the people, including 159 children, removed from the compound. Meisner said the adults were cooperating with investigators, and that she didnt believe any had been forced to leave the ' compound. Investigators also were looking for the man the girl allegedly married, Dale Barlow. Palmer said other law enforcement agencies "know where ' (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but our investigators have not." Barlow's probation officer told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was in Arizona. "He said the authorities had called him (in Colorado City, Ariz.) and some girl had accused him of assaulting her and he didn't even know who she was," said Bill Loader, a probation officer in Arizona. A call to Loader by The Associated Press was not imme- diately returned Sunday. Palmer said Texas authorities have been in contact with those in Arizona but have not yet talked to Barlow. No arrests have been made. Barlow was sentenced to jail last year after pleading no contest to conspiracy to ' commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for three years while he is on pro-bation. The search warrant instructed officers to look for marriage records or other evidence linking her to the man and the baby. The warrant authorized the seizure of computer drives, CDs, DVDs or photos. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, headed by Jeffs after his father's death in 2002, broke away from the Mormon church after the latter dis avowed polygamy more than a century ago. The compound sits down a narrow paved road and behind a hill that shields it almost entirely from view in town. Only the white temple can be seen on the horizoa Authorities kept onlookers miles away from the compound. A caravan of K-- 9 unit vehicles were seen headed down the road to the compound on Sunday morning. Palmer said she couldnt say whether authorities had entered all of the compound's many buildings but called it "a detailed search." Eldorado is a town of fewer than 2,000 people, home to a few government buildings, a couple of churches and a few blocks of houses. It's surrounded by wind-sweplains where sheep are raised. State off icials said they did not know how many people lived at the retreat. Jeffs is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., where he awaits trial for four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. pt hurt Report: HillAFB warned about keeping Study: Medicine mix-up-s about 1 in 15 hospitalized children complete physical inventories last year THE ASSOCIATED Lindsey Tanner problems were considered ' THE' ASSOCIATED PRESS preventable, most were rela- tively mild. None were fatal or CHICAGO Medicine mix-upcaused permanent damage, but accidental overdoses and some "did have the potential to bad drug reactions harm roughcause some significant harm," said Sharek, who is medical ly one out of 15 hospitalized patients' care. childrea according to the first Patient safety experts said the director of quality at Stanford . scientific test of a new detection problem is likely even bigger University's Lucile Packard method. than the study suggests because Children's Hospital. That number is far higher it involved only a review of Other triggers included use than earlier estimates and bolselected charts. Also, the study of vitamin K, an antidote for an sters concerns already heightdidn't include general commuoverdose of the blood thinner ened by well publicized cases Coumadin; use of a blood test nity hospitals, where most U.S. like the accidental drug over-- " children requiring hospitaliza- that detects insulin overdoses; 'dose of actor Dennis Quaid's and a lab test that identifies tioaare treated. newborn twins last November. Study author Dr. Paul Sharek problems that can said evidence is needed to show come from an overdose of the These data and the Dennis blood thinner heparin and other whether a big push to prevent Quaid episode are telling us 'that ... these kinds of errors and medical errors in recent years drugs. Quaid's twins got accidental experiencing harm as a result of has put a dent in the problem since 2002, when the data were heparin overyour health care is much more " : doses in a Los Angeles hospital t, common than people believe. a gathered. : shortly after they were born '.. Homer, of the children's ; It's very concerning," said Dr. last November. The actor and Charles Homer of the National healthcare initiative, said some hospitals have started using trig- his wife, Kimberly, have since r; Initiative for Children's Health-.- i formed a foundation to prevent care Quality. His group helped , ger methods similar to those in the study. But he added, '"we still i medical errors. The babies re- 'develop the, detection tool used ' have a long way to go." ' inthestudy. ' t covered and Quaid said in an 1 Researchers found a rate of ? Interview with The Associated Among triggers on the tist 11 d harrnfulvents was use of the drug naloxone, f Press on Saturday that "they an antidote for an overdose of for every 100 hospitalized chik appear to be normal kids, very - f and healthy." and related Jdren. That compares with an painkillhappy 1$ morphine Qiiaid praised the new study ;' ers. Symptoms include breath- heartier estimate of two per 100 hospitalized childrea based on ing difficulty and very low bloody for raising awareness about an itraditional detection methods? problem, pressure. . More than half the problems . and said he'd never envisioned that the reflects fact rate ;The the study found were related j j having to play the role of public some children experienced to these powerful painkillers, 1 1 health advocate before the har more than One drug treatment I I ' mistake.' including overdoses and allergic rowing experience. He called it ' reactions. The new estimate translates i j "the most frightening time" of his life. While 22 percent of the to 7.3 percent of hospitalized "children, or about 540,000 kids each year, a calculation based Jon government data.' Simply relying ort hospital staffers to report such problems had found less than 4 percent of the problems detected in the J new study. The new monitoring method developed for the study is a I list of 15 "triggers" on young patients' charts that suggest ';' s, domly selected medical charts for 960 children treated at 12 freestanding children's hospitals nationwide in 2002. Triggers mentioned in the charts pro- - . review of the moted an " blood-clottin- g . PRESS fuses was sent by mistake from the Utah air base to Inspectors warned Hill Air Taiwan. The wrong shipment Force Base a year ago about was delivered in fall of 2006, but the Pentagon discovered problems with computer inventories of ballistic missile last month how significant the error was. . parts, the Deseret Morning News reported Sunday. Defense Secretary Robert Auditors said poor recordGates ordered a full invenkeeping at Hill could lead to tory of all nuclear weapons like one that hap- and related materials. mistakes Initial blame for the Taiwan pened the previous fall but mistake has been pointed to nobody was aware of until a Defense Logistics Agency recently. warehouse operation at Hill Inspectors recommended and a contractor there. that Hill and its contractor conduct "a current and comAccording to the 2007 audit, inspectors looked at plete physical inventory of material government-owne- d whether contractors at Hill and reconcile the inventory," had recorded all the government assets stored at the faaccording to a copyright cility in a computerized inven-- , story in Sunday's editions. The Morning News obtory system. That included tained the Air Force Audit parts for Peacekeeper and Minuteman intercontinental Agency report, dated May ballistic missiles, which are 30, 2007, through a Freedom of Information Act request. stored at the base and awaiA shipment of ballistic missile ting disposal or destruction. SALT LAKE CITY . Of 21 items inspectors were looking for, only one was properly accounted for in a computerized inventory. "Additionally, management did not adequately reconcile assets to maintain reasonable internal controls" by conducting physical inventories to match computer inventories, the report said. Inspectors wrote that Hil1 officials told them that contracts with the contractors also allowed them to exclude from the inventory system any items considered obsolete. Inspectors wrote that sensitive material should still be periodically inventoried until it was disposed. The report said the commander of the 526th al Ballistic Missile -- Systems Wing accepted those recommendations and ordered - a .. complete inventory. .. ' . JSP drug-relate- if harm. It possible includes use of specific antidotes 1 for drug overdoses, suspicious side effects and certain lab tests. By contrast, traditional meth-- J ods include nonspecific patient drug-relate- Low Interest Rates Low Monthly Payments for new homes chart reviews and voluntary reporting. The researchers said then-i- t findings highlight the need for pre-;- I "aggressive, evidence-base- d vention strategies to decrease the substantial risk for medica- harm to.our pediat-ri- c inpatient populafioa" I The study is being released Monday in the April issue of the ; journal Pediatrics. It involved a review of ran,--, ;.' 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