The last that I heard about this case was that the call was traced to a 33 year old woman, known to be a habitual liar, with a record of making such prank calls pretending to be a teenaged girl. Considering the fact that officials have been saying that the only thing provoking the raid, that the police were using as their main basis for doing so, turned out to be a hoax, then yes, I feel like the raid was definitely unsubstantiated.

The woman lived in Colorado City, and that's also where the phone call came from. I do not understand why this call couldn't have been traced sooner and why it wasn't investigated further before the police took such drastic measures.

However, the idea behind child protective services is that they would rather put one hundred innocent families through the process if they could save one child from being abused, as opposed to overlooking that one child that needed help. Frankly, in the end, it's unfortunate that they have to go through all this, but if there is no sign of abuse/etc., then they'll be released back to their homes/families. And if there is evidence of abuse, then it would have been a good thing.

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