RINGGOLD, Ga. — A woman who had been removed by a judge as therapist for one of the alleged victims in a child molestation case testified Wednesday that she later tried to intervene in a custody battle between the girl’s parents.
She also acknowledged that she was undergoing therapy herself for post traumatic stress disorder at the time she was counseling three girls who are alleged molestation victims.
Lauri Evans, a former Fort Oglethorpe Children’s Advocacy Center social worker, spent Wednesday on the stand as a defense witness in the case of Tonya Craft.
Ms. Craft, a former Chickamauga Elementary School teacher, is charged with 22 counts of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation.
Ms. Evans testified that she treated all three girls beginning in 2008 and still is treating two of them. But in December 2008, she was removed as therapist for the third girl, court documents show.