NEW YORK – When Chaneya Kelly was eight years old, her mother forced her to say that her father molested her.

It was October of 1997 and Chaneya was just two months shy of her ninth birthday when she made the claim that sent her father, Daryl Kelly, to prison.

But why would a mother ask her child to do something so vile?

Chaneya’s mother, Charade said that her drug habit was to blame. It was a habit so severe that she took to prostitution to finance it. At the time, Daryl was living with Charade, and their five children in Newburgh, N.Y. He also has a drug habit he was trying to kick while maintaining an electronics shop he owned. Beyond that, Daryl was just another military vet trying to make due.

But Chaneya remembers her mother asking her an odd question out of the blue one day before going to school. “She repeatedly asked me, has my dad touched me,” recalled Chaneya. “I was like, ‘What do you mean, did he touch me?’ And she was like, ‘Did he touch you in your no-no spot?’ And I would repeatedly say no.”