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Woman faces second sexual battery charge tied to potential child abuse at Chattanooga migrant shelter

Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Redemption to the Nations is housing unaccompanied migrant children who arrived at the border in recent weeks in an unused former Tennessee Temple dormitory that the church leases.
Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Redemption to the Nations is housing unaccompanied migrant children who arrived at the border in recent weeks in an unused former Tennessee Temple dormitory that the church leases.

A woman has been charged with a second count of sexual battery in connection with alleged abuse at a Chattanooga shelter that housed unaccompanied migrant children, according to a Chattanooga Police Department news release.

Florencia Guadalupe Renderos Morales, 22, turned herself in at Silverdale Detention Center on Aug. 30.

Chattanooga police had initially charged her in July with sexual battery by an authority figure. Morales had been in custody in Harris County, Texas.

The ongoing investigation identified a second juvenile victim, which led to the additional charge, police said.

Another woman, Randi Duarte, 35, was charged with sexual battery by an authority figure, coercion of a witness and tampering with evidence in July.