Heritage baseball coach Eric Beagles watches his team from the third base box at Ringgold.
Ronnie BradfordThe trial of a North Georgia mother charged with filing false reports likely will come down to whether a photo of an alleged injury her son suffered was fabricated.
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney Chris Arnt said in his opening statement Monday. “This case is going to come down to a picture and the law that picture represents.”
Davida Kaye Caylor’s son, a Heritage High School freshman, and his assistant principal got into an argument in an office last year. The boy said the principal grabbed his hand, twisted it and slammed it on a desk. The principal said he simply set his phone back on its receiver when the boy grabbed it.
Either way, Gregory Aaron Black left the office with a bruised right hand. The school nurse confirmed that, and so did a doctor at Hutcheson Medical Center.
But, three weeks after the incident, the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Caylor. After she filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office against the assistant principal, Detective Freddie Roden said he didn’t believe one of the photos that was supposed to show Black’s injured hand was genuine.