"And to see their private parts put up on a screen for the jury to look at. It was just, I can't tell you, it just tore my heart out to just sit there and have to watch these little girls testify," Dennis Norwood, from, said. "Whether it really happened to them or not, in their minds they believe it did. She lost custody of the girl in 2008.Ĭhildren on the Stand: Terrible Truth or False Memory?Īll three girls, now 8 and 9 years old, took the witness stand and people in court said the awful testimony included graphic pictures and doctors arguing about whether the girls were violated. anything to these children."Ĭraft's own daughter is one of the three young girls she has been accused of abusing. "But I think there's a lot of things that have been done wrong that I know I did not do. I think that the experts have explained how something this horrible can happen," Craft said. "I think that what has happened is more within a travesty. "I never ever imagined that someone that did absolutely nothing could be arrested, indicted and face the rest of your life in prison," Craft said.Ĭraft said she believes the children were playing on their own when she wasn't looking. "I am here because I have been falsely accused," she said at court Monday.Ĭraft had faced 22 counts, including child molestation, aggravated child molestation and aggravated sexual abuse, reported. Prosecutors alleged that for nearly two years Craft, a mother, fondled children at her home multiple times, starting in August 2005, all while they were in kindergarten and first grade.īut Craft, 37, said she was innocent and only invited them to her home for sleepovers with her daughter, who was the same age. It's really a matter of a jury and their gut." Michael Welner told "Good Morning America." "Behavioral sciences can't tell if a memory is true or false. "The problem here is that jurors have the responsibility - that they're essentially going to have to decide who they're going to believe," forensic psychiatrist Dr.
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The allegations sparked a trial that shocked the small community of Ringgold and left everyone - including the jury - with an extraordinarily difficult decision to make.
But the parents of other children said it was something far more sinister: They claimed Craft molested their kids several times. The verdict was met with cheers from supporters outside the courtroom.Ĭraft had maintained that when her daughter's friends spent the night at her house, it was nothing more than an innocent sleepover. Since her arrest in May 2008, Craft has been fired from her job, lost custody of her daughter, lost her home and moved with her husband to Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., about 30 miles north of where she was on trial in Ringgold, Ga.
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