CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — The executive director of a child advocacy center in Clayton County has been arrested, accused of having knowledge that her son allegedly molested a child at the center and covered it up. Her son is also facing charges.
The Clayton County Police Department's Human Trafficking Unit got a tip about sexual misconduct happening at a facility in Jonesboro last week. The location is an emergency shelter and child advocacy center.
Police launched an investigation and learned an employee, Caleb Randolph, inappropriately engaged in sexual conduct with at least one child who had been placed at the facility, a news release from the department said. The 25-year-old employee is also the son of the facility's executive director, Mia Chanel Kimber.
Authorities said Kimber and Monica Jones, the program director of the child advocacy center, "both had direct knowledge of the misconduct and failed to report the misconduct to law enforcement officials." They are both accused of similar charges.
Kimber and Jones then worked on a cover-up scheme which resulted in the child being removed from the facility based on false allegations, investigators said. Randolph was then fired and re-hired within a week and a half, according to authorities. He has since been actively employed at the shelter where he was still allowed to interact with children at the facility until his arrest on March 16.
Police continue to investigate and add they may make more arrests as they dig into misconduct at the facility. The Attorney General's Office Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit will be overseeing the case.
Below are the charges the suspects are facing:
Caleb Xavier Randolph | Arrested March 16
- Child Molestation
- Statutory Rape
- Sexual Assault of a Person over Whom Have Supervisory/Disciplinary Authority Over
- Sexual Assault by Facility Employee/Agent/Volunteer
Mia Chanel Kimber | Arrested on March 18
Monica Shanora Jones | Arrested on March 20
- Child Molestation – Party to a Crime
- Statutory Rape – Party to Crime
- Sexual Assault of a Person over Whom Have Supervisory/Disciplinary Authority Over – Party to a Crime
- Sexual Assault by Facility Employee/Agent/Volunteer – Party to a Crime
- Sexual Exploitation – Party to a Crime
- Mandated Reporter (Failure to report)
Editor's note: Police asked 11Alive not to release the exact name of the facility to protect the victims in this case.