A past client (Mr. E) was charged with 10 counts of child molestation. He was a teacher at a local school teaching second grade. He was a big man that could easily have been mistaken for Santa Claus. Equally friendly and involved as a teacher. All the children loved him. As he walked down the hallway, he would have three children on either side of him each one holding one of his fingers. In class, they like to sit on his lap. He was caring and talk to them when they had a problem at home. The accusations surrounded him touching female students as they sat on his lap. He vigorously denied the accusations. Originally, there were 11 little girls involved. The state, however, dropped one of the charges and I became suspicious. I took the deposition of the 11th girl and she said that the only reason that she went along with the accusation was because “all of her friends were saying it”. She began to cry and said that everything was made up. The investigation then discovered that the people who were conducting the interviews were planting statements and leading the children into making false accusations. Fortunately, the jury came to the same conclusion and found him “not guilty”. But his teaching career was over.