RINGGOLD, Ga. — With a soft voice, a former kindergarten teacher explained that the families who allege that she molested three girls were angry with her before the accusations arose.
Tonya Craft testified Friday that, after a birthday party in 2008, she was worried that she had made two of her friends upset by correcting their children.
After she talked with two girls — one of whom is an alleged victim — about being mean, Ms. Craft testified she went downstairs and told her husband, “I just ticked off two families that are very influential.”
Ms. Craft, a former Chickamauga Elementary School teacher, is charged with 22 counts of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation.