Kelly Michaels' nightmare began on Awhen a four-year-old boy who was a student of hers at the Wee Care Day Nursery said, when a nurse put a thermometer in his rectum, "That's what my teacher does to me at nap time at school." When asked what he meant, the boy replied, "Her takes my temperature." The trouble was Kelly Michaels was 100% innocent. She spent the next seven years of her life in prison. Journalists played the new daycare horror story for all it was worth. Parents wearing “Believe the Children” buttons packed the courtroom for the trial. Kelly Michaels was charged with sexually abusing twenty children. One child said that Michaels “made us eat boiled babies,” another said that “she put a sword in my rectum,” and a third said that she “played piano naked.” Children try hard to find answers that please adults. The suggestions finally worked: children who initially denied that they were abused in any way finally said that they had been. Investigators repeatedly interviewed three and four-year-olds, suggesting through their graphic and disturbing questions that the children had been sexually molested. On a visit to a doctor’s office one day, one of the children at the center said, as his temperature was being taken rectally, “that’s what my teacher does.” Soon the boy's teacher, Kelly Michaels, found herself the subject of a criminal investigation. Kelly Michaels worked at a day care center in New Jersey.
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