Officer Under Investigation for Sex Crimes

Impregnated teen during marriage

3TV/March 20, 2002

Colorado City, Ariz. -- A two-state investigation is underway over the possible statutory sex crimes committed by a police officer and polygamist living in Colorado City.

The Mohave County attorney confirmed today that a probe has started into Rodney Holm, a member of a religious fundamentalist group, who purportedly has three wives and allegedly impregnated Ruth Stubbs, who was 16 at the time. Stubbs, who fled the marriage, and Holm, reportedly had another child and a third is on the way.

Colorado City is home to a large number of polygamist families, many of which, according to a Salt Lake newspaper study, are on welfare.