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Summary: A "true" story never properly proven
Review: First of all, the title of the book praising itself as a true story of sexual abuse at a day-care is untrue. The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled that because of the ridiculious behavior of the people questioning children there is no way that it could ever be determined if allegations are accurate. Thus the conviction was overturned and Micheals has not been convicted to this day. To summarize Dr. Steven Ceci, professor of developmental studies at Cornell University, there is no doubt children in this case were abused...by the therapists who questioned them. Certianly Dr. Ceci carries much more credibility than the author of this... To gain an accurate report on how the allegations developed, read the Amicus breif submitted to the New Jersey Supreme Court by a group of concerned scientists available in the first volume of psychology, public policy, and the law.
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Summary: True, eh?
Review: Hate to break it to you, but Kelly was acquitted of all charges and declared innocent after being in jail for 5 years. I didn't read this book. I didn't need to. Kelly goes to my church. And her testimony is amazing. She is an amazing woman who loves the Lord and has 5 beautiful children and a wonderful husband. Maybe you should make sure a story is "true" before claiming so. I wish that you could all hear Kelly's testimony. It's an amazing TRUE story of the awesome sovereignty and grace of God.
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Summary: Seriously - Who's Your REAL Audience?
Review: I beleive Lisa Manshel was fair and wise in her taking the sides of the children. Anyone who could believe Kelly Michaels didn't sexually abuse the children in her care must not have children. This book was written about Miss Michael's first trial, and in my opinion, the "True Justice" trial. In 1993 (long after the book was published) the decision was overturned because of the judge's questioning of the children. Because the judge screwed up enough to make some appeals court overturn the ruling does not mean the children lied. Kelly Michaels was out at first, only because of posted bail ($75,000) and the state couldn't afford to try her again...And the poor children. Tsk tsk tsk.This is a great book! A shocking wake up for parents. Please read it if you can get ahold of a copy. An innocent face means nothing in todays world. Look at Jefferey Dahmer, look at Ted Bundy. Kelly Michaels is up there with the rest of the monsters, and what's worse is, she's alive and out of jail.
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Summary: Informative - Pay attention to your kids
Review: I beleive Lisa Manshel was fair and wise in her taking the sides of the children. Anyone who could believe Kelly Michaels didn't sexually abuse the children in her care must not have children. This book was written about Miss Michael's first trial, and in my opinion, the "True Justice" trial. In 1993 (long after the book was published) the decision was overturned because of the judge's questioning of the children. Because the judge screwed up enough to make some appeals court overturn the ruling does not mean the children lied. Kelly Michaels was out at first, only because of posted bail ($75,000) and the state couldn't afford to try her again...And the poor children. Tsk tsk tsk. This is a great book! A shocking wake up for parents. Please read it if you can get ahold of a copy. An innocent face means nothing in todays world. Look at Jefferey Dahmer, look at Ted Bundy. Kelly Michaels is up there with the rest of the monsters, and what's worse is, she's alive and out of jail.
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Summary: Too much unneeded detail and clearly biased.
Review: Ms. Manshel better not call herself a journalist. Journalists do not take sides even if they sympathize with a victim. I know this because I am one. It is painfully clear that Manshel wanted to paint Kelly Michaels as an overweight childish woman desperate for sexual gratification by any means possible. She describes Kelly as "pungent" and makes fat-phobic comments about tight clothes and a double chin. Since when does being fat make someone a child molester? I don't know whether she did it or not. I do know her conviction was overturned as a result of the questioning of children. Ms. Manshel further proves her bias by painting Kelly's lawyers as overzealous (which they were) but making the prosecutors look heroic (they were just as overzealous) I also found it sickening how at least half of this way-too long book went into disgusting and graphic details about sexual activities with children. It makes the book pornographic. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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Summary: Seriously - Who's Your REAL Audience?
Review: Now that Christmas is upon us, this tome would make an ideal stocking-stuffer for that special someone. Only problem is, that stocking would have to be made of latex, black leather, or a similarly kinky material. Because this allegedly Upstanding Defense of Children and Condemnation of the Perverted Female is more than a little bent itself. WHY is the bulk of the book devoted to lip-smackingly-graphic descriptions of sex acts between a grown woman and small boys? WHY are we subjected to page after page of scatological and copulatory details, when the author does not even provide notes, trial transcripts, police records, or documentation of any kind? Nothing dry or factual please; go straight for the midsection. Actually, there's another problem. All the cutest twists to the story were left out of this book. Little touches like, er, the fact that the prosecution's star witness (a mother) had been arrested for child abuse herself--and that her implausible verbal "evidence" against Michaels got her off the hook? Oh yes, and there's the little matter of the court focusing for two days on a lesbian experience Michaels had in college. (Wasn't suburban homophobia a handy courtroom tool in the 80's? Sigh.) And the fact that the child witnesses constantly (and emotionlessly) contradicted their own stories when questioned. And why was Ms. Michaels forced to defend her interest in theater and poetry at her trial? More than anything, this book reminds me of the moralistic, drooling postcards from the 1920's of innocent minorities being lynched. I assume it elicited the desired sensations and Ms. Manshel can be proud of her back-alley-creeping, raincoat-wearing clientele.
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Summary: My Mother believed that children could be told what to say .
Review: Thats the point in this story a lot thought that the children where beening told what to say ' even if a child is' it still does not fix the fact that children would not know where to put the jelly not even if one told them where ' and one could not get such things off a T.V. unless mom an dad are letting there children watch such things so that would make them just as bad as the one that is sexual abuseing the child . this book told enough to say to us to check people out don't trust the Adults because they have a piece of paper that is saying here my mined went to school .. BULL ... I think the writier done enough to let us know that people with high grade papers can also harm are children . this is a must read for all Mothers an Dad's that have children in day care . read it an check your childrens day care out don't take peoples word for what they say when it comes to your child .. I thank the Author for this book ...
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Summary: Nap Time by Lisa Manshel
Review: This was a sick book! not by the work of the author but by the the subject of the book! this book was about the sick woman named Margaret "Kelly" Michaels who abused over 20 kids sexually during her employment at the Wee care Daycare Nursey in maplewood nJ. its a true story! a must read for all mothers consitering leaving their children in the care of others. The one thing i have walked away from this book learning is that my child (7.5 mo) will learn the proper names for her private parts! just incase another sick person like Kelly Michaels is anywhere near my child!
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Summary: Mendacious, Mean-Spirited Sleaze
Review: While many still feel that some kind of abuse did take place at the Wee Care Day Care Center, the charges trumpeted by the prosecutors and Manshel herself were found to have been fabricated by overzealous (the most polite term) child-abuse investigators. The children were fed a script, and there was absolutely no evidence, physical or otherwise, to support Kelly Michaels's conviction. (It was later overturned, and the verdict declared one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in American history.) Manshel acknowledges the absence of evidence and the sheer physical impossibility of the children's stories. Yet she goes on with her fierce agenda, perhaps prompted by dreams of a best-seller or even baser motives. This is the saddest, most confusing aspect of the whole, sordid case: that a grown adult could ignore all evidence and common sense and continue to believe something so ghastly about another, apparently affable, young woman. Given the book's lack of documentation of any of its facts or "interviews," I will have to assume Manshel did not make them up and is merely unprofessional and naive. I hope so. Anyone who would so grotesquely libel a teacher in the name of protecting children is almost equivalent to a child molester. Kelly Michaels was found not guilty. I don't think that this book should be sold, or read, again.
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