Shelton rejected all immunity claims and on Thursday the state Court of Appeals denied the university's request to take the case away from Shelton. He now has custody of the child. Faller supervised the interviewer, Jane Mildred, and wrote the final report that said the sexual-abuse allegation against Champney appeared to be true. Child Protective Services in Jackson County had referred the child, then 3, to Faller's clinic because the agency could not verify the mother's claims that Champney had molested his daughter. Authorities agree that the most truthful disclosures about abuse come from children who are away from their parents, but Mildred enlisted the help of the girl's mother during the session.
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The girl pushed her finger into the doll's vagina. The mother, who couldn't be reached for comment, fled to a women's shelter with her daughter and reported Champney to Child Protective Services. But investigators couldn't verify sexual abuse and turned to Faller's clinic for help. After hearing the mother's story, interviewing the child and talking with Champney, the clinic's multidisciplinary team decided Champney likely was a child molester. Champney, who lives next to his parents and sister in rural Jackson County, said he lost his dignity at work after Faller's clinic billed his insurance company and listed pedophilia as his diagnosis.