RINGGOLD, Ga. — A Walker County Sheriff’s Office detective testified Wednesday she had looked into an allegation involving the stepmother of an alleged victim in the Tonya Craft trial in 2008.
Detective Caroline Cobb, a defense witness, testified that Ms. Craft had told Sheriff Steve Wilson about allegations involving the third alleged victim and her stepmother.
Ms. Craft, a former Chickamauga Elementary teacher, is charged with 22 counts of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation. The charges involve three children.
Flipping through her notebook to find the correct date, Detective Cobb said the sheriff called her on April 3, 2008, “and asks me if I would call and talk to Tonya.”
Ms. Craft reported that the child, then 6, had confided that her stepmother had acted inappropriately, including taking showers with the child and shaving her own genital area in the child’s presence, Detective Cobb said.