RINGGOLD, Ga. – In the fifth week of trial for the former kindergarten teacher charged with molesting three girls, the Catoosa County Superior Court continues to be under a microscope.
While jurors debate the Tonya Craft case in the Catoosa County Courthouse, media trucks line a nearby church parking lot and the lights and equipment of network equipment are set up on the sidewalk across from the courthouse. National media including CBS, ABC, NBC’s Today Show and Inside Edition are now covering the trial.
Inside the courthouse, some of Ms. Craft’s friends maintain a vigil outside the courtroom on benches. Some of the families and friends of the alleged victims wait for the verdict in a room set aside for them in the courthouse.
Ms. Craft is waiting for the verdict at her parents’ house in East Ridge.
The jury began deliberating Monday afternoon and continued at 9 a.m. this morning.