Board ok's multi-use building in Colorado City
 
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KINGMAN, Ariz. - During a special meeting Tuesday, the Mohave County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a multi-use governmental facility to be located in Colorado City. The modular building, to be located on land leased from Mohave Community College, will house the Sheriff, County Attorney, State Attorney General and Child Protection Services. In a prepared statement, Mohave County manager Ron Walker said county staff is beginning the process of procuring a suitable modular facility and preparing a workable floor plan to accommodate all users.

Meanwhile county residents are beginning to respond to the reports of alleged abuse of women and children in Colorado City and adjoining Hildale, Utah. Mohave County Supervisor Buster Johnson, R-Dist. 3, has been collecting cash and other goods to help the women and kids that have escaped the border communities.

"Some people in Kingman have called that had a lot of clothing. There is a church putting on a program, they're going to bring clothing plus they are going to show an investigative reports movie and some others movies to their people and get more information out. One of the schools has brought in quite a bit of clothing and that sort of stuff," Supervisor Johnson said.

Here are some e-Press reader comments on the situation in Colorado City:

"Follow the law. Arrest anyone who is not. Simple. Right."

"We need to end the child abuse happening in Colorado City. These teenage girls are being forced to have sex with these dirty old men. "This is not religion it is child molestation."

"There is more corruption going on over there than just multiple marriages. The welfare fraud is a way of life."
 
Tri-State News Network
Originally published Wednesday, January 28, 2004
 
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