Margaret Kelly Michaels's Injustice For Child Sexual Assault

Margaret Kelly Michaels at age 22 got accused for child sexual assault. On October 8, 1984, Michaels started working at Wee Care Daycare in New Jersey after starting her acting career. She was accused of performing sexual acts on and with children. She also got accused for inserting knives and forks into the children while forcing them to eat human waste, and she made them defecate on her. Some of the children testified that she engaged in oral sex with them, and forced naked children to pile on top of her, or one another while she played the piano. The children claimed she performed the acts during their nap time, or lunch time. A couple of the children claimed Michaels would urinate in a bucket, and she would drink it. Police took her to questioning, and used a lie detector test on her. She passed the test, so the police officers didn’t understand how she was accused, yet she still went to trial. Some of the children she supposedly abused claimed Kelly made them urinate in the piano bench in the music room. FBA took it for physical evidence, and the test came back negative. Kelly was also accused for taking pictures of the children, but no …show more content…
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