Accusation
In April 1985, a nurse took the temperature of a 4-year-old boy with a rectal thermometer and the boy said: "That's what my teacher does to me at nap time at school." The comment was reported to the local authorities, and all the children at the Wee Care Nursery School were questioned. Margaret Kelly Michaels was indicted for 299 offenses in connection with the sexual assault of 33 children. "Among the charges in two indictments were aggravated sexual assault, impairing the morals of minors and terroristic threats." Michaels denied the charges. Testimonial evidence was collected from 51 children from the day care center by social workers and therapists that said that Margaret Kelly Michaels forced them to lick peanut butter off her genitals, that she penetrated their rectums and vaginas with knives, forks and other objects, that she forced them to eat cakes made from human excrement and that she made them play duck, duck, goose while naked. Physical evidence included a jar of peanut butter from the day care center's kitchen, and the lyrics to Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" written inside Michaels' attendance book.
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