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Tonya Craft Found Not Guilty of Child Molestation

By Christie on May 12th, 2010

Tonya Craft, the Georgia kindergarten teacher who was accused of 22 criminal counts of child molestation has been found not guilty on all charges

After two days of deliberation, the Catoosa County Superior Court jury found  37-year-old  Craft not guilt on all charges.

In a previous post on the Tonya Craft trial we reported that the charges against her included 10 counts of child molestation, 6 counts of aggravated sexual battery and 6 counts of aggravated child molestation. Craft has maintained her innocence since she was arrested in June, 2008.

She told NBC’s Today Show that “her whole heart was stolen” by the ordeal and the verdict only gave her back half. Craft lost custody of her two children after her arrest in 2008.

“Until I get my children, I won’t have my heart back,” she said. Craft has lost her job, her children and her home since she was first accused of the charges.

  • Darr247

    The county or state government bodies that employed the investigators asking leading questions of the kids, and the prosecutor[s] turned persecutor[s], should have to pay all her legal fees, give her triple backpay, AND (of course) her kids back.

    And since they can never make up for the 2 years they’ve missed with their mother, paid up 529 plans for her kids might help make up for the years of therapy they’ll need.

    The kids that were forced into bearing false witness should probably be in counseling for a while, too, since adults in authority have so seriously distorted their concepts of right versus wrong.

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