The Arapaphoe County District Attorneys' Office has said the reason Brent J. Brents wasn't arrested earlier was because of e-mails that went to a police officer who didn't have an e-mail account. In a letter to the editor in today's Denver Post, a reader asks for the proof [2], and suggests a cover-up is in the works.

....The excuse for the one-month delay in acting on the child molestation complaint against Brent J. Brents in November was that an e-mail was sent by Chief Deputy District Attorney Bob Chappell to Del Matticks, the lead investigator, notifying him he should take action. Matticks apparently didn't have an e-mail account, and there was no notification of this sent to Chappell. I would like to see that event reproduced. Failed delivery notification is an automatic feature of all e-mail systems. This is a part of the early coverup of the failure of people to do their jobs properly.

What about the unanswered voicemails? Why wasn't there a back-up plan in place, a person higher up the chain of command to call if an individual officer didn't respond? The Arapahoe County DA's office released this report of what went wrong [3] and to its credit, a plan of corrective measures.