As an adult incest survivor and a mother of three children, one of which we suspect was molested by her biological father (I am now divorced from the biological father of my three children who are now adopted by their stepfather), I will say that I am sympathetic to Krista's fears.
I was however disturbed by the videotapes of the visitation exchanges. I was upset to see the way Krista spoke to Kaylee about the abuse. Perhaps I view things differently than most, but even when my daughter (5 at the time) came home from visitations informing me that her bio-father made her sleep in the bed with him and he was in nothing more than his underwear, we acted like nothing was wrong so as not to disturb our daughter further, and we immediately moved to change visitation from unsupervised to supervised. I was successful, I think primarily because I made the decision not to discuss any of this with my child. Rather than feeding into it, I played it off while moving within the bounds of the court system, so when my child was interviewed, it was easily apparent to the interviewers that in fact there was NO coaching.
Now, some background into my particular case, my ex caused my oldest two children to be placed in the custody of social services because he refused to watch them while I worked, and my oldest daughter who suffers from ADHD (impulsive type) liked to venture outdoors unattended (at 3) and so the girls were placed in custody for 10 months while we fought to bring them back home. A second time my middle girl was placed in custody because my ex hit her (he admitted it to the police so I was not charged) and it took me 14 months to get her back. During the time my younger daughter was in custody my ex never visited her once (he lived less than 3 blocks from the agency, while I was living over an hour away and I made the drive as often as I was allowed to with my current husband). The second time my younger daughter was taken I had been separated from my ex for six months, but still she was taken because I didnt protect her, even though I was not present when he hit her. So, believe me, I do not believe in the social services system, as they took one child, and left two others in my custody (I couldnt protect one, but was good enough to care for 2 other children, all while I had letters of recommendation from the kids school, daycare, doctors, etc?) With everything going on, I am really surprised that Krista hasn't had Kaylee removed from her custody, as is very common in a dispute like this one...take the child into foster care and do the investigation from there.
If Krista really wants this to be investigated completely, she needs to cease discussing it in any fashion and allow Kaylee's counselor (I pray this child has one) and physician figure it out, and submit the reports to the courts. The courts view the recommendations of counselors much more highly than that of parents in a custody dispute. Often CPS will not even hear the complaints of parents in a custody dispute, because far too often child abuse is alledged in these battles. That is why Krista should stop discussing it, and leave it up to professinals.
I hope things work out for the best for Krista and Kaylee.
Dr. Phil follows up with Krista and Bonii's quest for the truth, to find out if 3-year-old Kaylee is being molested by her father, Jeremy. Jeremy maintains his innocence even after a polygraph test showed him to be lying. He took another lie detector test at his hometown police department, and brought the results for Dr. Phil to review. What does an independent polygrapher say about this second test? Then, Jeremy asked to undergo hypnosis as another means of getting closer to the truth. Were there any new revelations? And, Jeremy had agreed to supervised visits with Kaylee, but when he got home, he changed his mind, so Krista denied him visitation. They end up facing off in front of a judge. Did Krista serve jail time or let Jeremy see Kaylee? Is Jeremy being falsely accused, or is this little girl still in harm's way? Talk about the show here.
