The charges of child molestation and beastly against a 6-year-old boy are shocking enough. But it’s the woman who is facing those charges that has a lot of people talking.

A top level administrator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and her boyfriend are the ones behind bars for what they allegedly did to the child.

Dr. Kimberly Lindsey, 44, and Thomas Westerman, 42, let the boy perform sex acts on two pets. He was also included in the adult’s sex acts. The child was allowed to spank Lindsey's nude buttocks and use an electric sex toy on her, DeKalb police said.

Dr. Lindsey is the deputy director for the Laboratory Science Policy and Practice Program Office. Westerman is a security guard at the CDC. Police said the two turned themselves in on Sunday after police issued a warrant for their arrests.

Police said the couple molested a 6-year-old boy in January of last year and then again in August inside the couple's home on Springbrook Drive near Decatur.

A medical professional treating the child discovered the abuse, police said.

"These cases are reported to us on a daily basis," DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said.

James couldn't talk about the case because it may come before his office. But he did say he has prosecuted many cases where parents abuse children.

"Oftentimes when a child is abused I can tell you that it's typically someone that the child knows," James told Channel  2 Action  News.

As of Monday, Lindsey was being held at the DeKalb County Jail on a $20,000 bond. Westerman was released on a $15,000 bond.

The CDC only says its policy is to let situations like this play out in the criminal justice system.