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'They framed her': 10 years after woman was accused of day care killing, effort to clear her name persists

When Melissa Calusinski found Benjamin Kingan unresponsive in his bouncy chair at a suburban day care center on Jan. 14, 2009, his death later that day was a mystery.

It wasn't yet clear that it would also become - in the eyes of the law - a murder.

It also wasn't clear that the case would attract national attention. Or that - now a decade later - the events surrounding the Deerfield, Ill., toddler's death would continue to be debated: Was it intentional or accidental? Did Benjamin

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