Owner of GA ministry that took in disabled children, adults arrested on child cruelty charges

Fahey and his wife, Kathy Fahey, operated The King’s Cleft, a nonprofit organization in Johnson County. Kathy Fahey died during the course of the GBI’s two-month investigation into allegations of abuse, but was still considered a subject of the investigation.

Most children who moved into the facility as children lived there until adulthood. At the beginning of the investigation into abuse allegations, agents found five children and five adults at The King’s Cleft.

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The children were removed and put into the custody of the Division of Family and Children Services.

The adults are in the process of being removed.

The King’s Cleft was located on a 20-acre farm between Macon and Savannah. A profile of the ministry written in 2013 said the Faheys took in children from other countries who had been adopted by American parents but couldn’t take care of them. The children were from all over the world.

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Fahey was arrested on four counts of felony cruelty to children and three counts of felony false imprisonment.

He was taken to the Johnson County Detention Center.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kathy Fahey is buried in a family cemetery on The King’s Cleft property where several of the children are also buried.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the GBI Regional Investigative Office in Eastman at 478-374-6988 or the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office at 478-864-3941. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477); online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online; or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.