Within days of the first accusations being made, Raymond and Marilyn Knutsen brought my six-year-old son to Kimberlee A. Moyer, a registered nurse who also described herself as a child, adolescent, and family therapist.
Moyer was not conducting a neutral forensic interview. She never interviewed me. She never spoke to Wayne. She was not a law-enforcement investigator. She was not appointed by the court to determine whether the allegations were credible. Nevertheless, after meeting with the Knutsens and then speaking with my son, she produced a sweeping written report that repeated an extraordinary collection of accusations against me and my then-boyfriend.
Those accusations were false. There was no sexual abuse whatsoever.
The report shows how rapidly unverified allegations were converted into something that looked official. Moyer repeated what Raymond and Marilyn told her, recorded additional statements attributed to my son, offered conclusions about his safety, and recommended that he have no contact with me or my boyfriend until further investigation had occurred.
She did this while acknowledging that the information-gathering process was still ongoing and that the report did not contain all of the available information. She also wrote that a medical examination had been performed the previous day, but that the results were still forthcoming.
In other words, Moyer issued a recommendation that I be cut off from my child before the investigation was complete and before the medical findings referenced in her own report were even available.
A Clinical Report Becomes a Legal Weapon
Moyer dated her report May 10, 2012. She stated that it was being prepared for presentation to the Knutsens’ attorney and for a court hearing scheduled for the following day before Judge Nancy Corsones.
By May 11, 2012, the report had reached the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. A federal fax cover sheet shows the office transmitting the four-page document to Kris Carlson, with the notation that it came from Christina Nolan.
This was no longer simply a concerned relative making a report to local authorities. A nurse’s incomplete and untested account had entered a federal prosecutorial office almost immediately after the accusations began.
There is nothing in the document showing that Moyer attempted to interview me before writing it. There is nothing showing that she interviewed my boyfriend. There is nothing showing that she tested the Knutsens’ claims against independent records, prior statements, medical evidence, or information from the accused parties.
Instead, the report adopted the accusations as a basis for an immediate recommendation that my child be separated from me.
The Appearance of Authority
Moyer’s professional credentials gave the document an appearance of medical and therapeutic authority. But the report was built largely from allegations supplied by the people seeking to keep my son from returning home, followed by statements obtained from a six-year-old who had already been questioned repeatedly by adults.
The report mixed claims about parenting, alcohol, discipline, costumes, photographs, household behavior, and alleged abuse into a single narrative. The volume and sensational nature of the accusations made the document appear alarming, but volume is not verification.
An allegation does not become true because a professional types it on letterhead. It does not become medical evidence because the writer is a nurse. It does not become reliable because it is delivered to a lawyer, a judge, or a federal prosecutor.
What the document demonstrates is the machinery of escalation: relatives made accusations, a privately retained professional repeated them, the report was prepared for court, and it was circulated through the U.S. Attorney’s Office before the underlying claims had been properly investigated.
No Sexual Abuse Occurred
The central fact must not be lost beneath the inflammatory language in Moyer’s report: there was no sexual abuse.
The allegations described in this document were false. They became part of a broader campaign of legal and institutional abuse that separated me from my child and forced me to defend myself against claims that should never have been treated as established fact.
Moyer’s report is important not because its accusations were true, but because it documents how quickly false accusations were given professional packaging and pushed into legal proceedings.
Rather than waiting for evidence, obtaining all sides of the story, or allowing the investigation to establish what had actually occurred, Moyer helped create a document that could be used immediately against me.
That document reached the federal prosecutor’s office within days. The effort failed. Federal prosecutors took no action.
The accusations were false, but the damage caused by circulating them was real.
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