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	McMartin Preschool Case - Picture - MSN Encarta
		In 1984 prosecutors indicted seven teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, on charges they had sexually abused dozens of children.
		Charges were dropped against five of the teachers, but the subsequent trial of Peggy McMartin Buckey, left, and her son Ray Buckey, far right, was one of the longest and costliest trials in American history.
		The case relied heavily on pretrial interviews of the preschool children conducted by therapists.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461550851_761557653_-1_1/McMartin_Preschool_Case.html (157 words)

	McMartin preschool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The McMartin preschool case was based on allegations of sexual abuse of the school's children by the school's owners, the McMartin family.
		In 1983, the mother of one of the Manhattan Beach, California preschool's young students complained to the police that her son had been sodomized by her estranged husband and by McMartin teacher Ray Buckey, the grandson of school founder Virginia McMartin and son of administrator Peggy McMartin Buckey.
		The McMartin preschool itself was closed and leveled (which conspiracy theorists propose was done to eliminate evidence of the tunnels).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McMartin_preschool (933 words)

	McMartin Case Links
		McMartin founded the now-defunct McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, which became the focus of a child abuse investigation in 1983 when a mother later diagnosed as mentally ill told police she suspected her 2 1/2-year-old son had been molested.
		McMartin was arrested in 1984 with her daughter, Peggy McMartin Buckey, and grandchildren, Ray and Peggy Ann Buckey, and three teachers.
		McMartin was arrested in March 1984 with her daughter, Peggy McMartin Buckey, and grandchildren, Ray and Peggy Ann Buckey, along with three teachers.
	www.ags.uci.edu /~dehill/witchhunt/cases/mcmartin.htm (778 words)

	McMartin preschool trial
		Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with sexual abuse of children in their care.
		In 1983, Judy Johnson, the mother of one of the Manhattan Beach, California preschool's young students complained to the police that her son had been sodomized by her estranged husband and by McMartin teacher Ray Buckey, who was the grandson of school founder Virginia McMartin and son of administrator Peggy McMartin Buckey (1926-2001).
		McMartin, in a wheelchair when she surrendered on the March 22 indictments, termed the charges against her a bunch of lies.
	pedophileophobia.com /mcmartin_preschool_trial.htm (3338 words)

	McMartin
		The McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California was the first of what has since been described as a national epidemic of multi-victim, multi-perpetrator accusations of sexual and sadistic abuse which erupted in the mid 1980's.
		Due to their relationship parallel to the east wall of the preschool and relative to wood fragments to the north in Unit 2 found earlier by Jerry Hobbs, these posts seemed to be spaced at regular intervals, extending from north to south in classroom #3.
		One, toward the south, was consistent with the location and function described by children; it appeared to connect the interior of the preschool with the adjoining triplex structure and it had a distinct signature where it exited under the foundation of the east wall.
	www.angelfire.com /stars2/outcry/mcmartin.html (5848 words)

	Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices - McMartin Preschool
		People working at the McMartin Preschool, Manhattan Beach, Southern California, became the targets of a witchhunt that touched off a sex-abuse hysteria across the United States and abroad.
		The other defendant who went to trial was his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, who died over the weekend--daughter of one defendant, mother of another and a defendant herself.
		It resulted in not a single conviction, though seven people were charged in the McMartin case, on a total of 135 counts -- just a series of deadlocks, acquittals and mistrials.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /m11.html (761 words)

	National Review: Protecting the innocent - McMartin Preschool case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		IT WAS BIG news when Raymond Buckey and his 63-year-old mother were acquitted of sexually abusing children in the McMartin Preschool, not just because of the distress we all feel about the abuse of children, but because most Americans assumed that the defendants were guity and that the legal system had fouled up again.
		As the McMartin case demonstrates, for young children, the basic issue is whether an interviewer has used leading or suggestive techniques to implant a distorted or untrue version of such abuse in the child's mind.
		The McMartin acquittals do not mean that we have to abandon due process of law and the presumption of innocence in order to protect children.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v42/ai_8531095 (1309 words)

	McMartin Preschool Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1984, shortly after indictments were handed to defendants in the McMartin child molestation case, Gerald Klaas, her husband, drove off a cliff in Oregon and was killed.
		Children alleged in a grand jury hearing that teachers at the preschool had threatened to kill family members if they talked about abuse, It was rumored around town that the Klaas deaths and the McMartin case may have been related.
		Together with Dr. Herbert Adams of the geology department at Cal State University, a ground resistivity reading of the tunnel was followed from the preschool to a triplex next door, a traversing section parallel to the north wall of the school, 5 feet away, extending 20 feet eastward, 10 to 15 feet beneath the surface.
	www.mindcontrolforums.com /alxmrtn2.htm (3038 words)

	Ceci & Bruck(1993)/Abstract
		After spending 2 years in jail, Peggy McMartin Buckey's bail was set at $500,000 in 1986, while her son remained remanded without bail in a proceeding that would last an additional 4 years.
		On the one hand, it was argued that the children's reports were authentic and that their bizarre and chilling accounts of events, which were well beyond the realm of most preschoolers' knowledge and experience, only served to substantiate the fact that the children had actually participated in them.
		From the very start, the McMartin case captured the attention of the national media, with regular accounts of the children's allegations appearing on television (e.g., ABC News Nightline, April 20, 1984), in newspapers (e.g., Charlier and Downing, 1988; Shaw, 1990) and in magazine articles (e.g., Fischer, 1988).
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/sjc9/Abstracts/1993SRCD.html (980 words)

	McMartin Preschool Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One much maligned school of psychology argues that a preschool operated by a mind control cult specializes in dissociative conditioning, a regimen of physical and psychological beatings that give birth to a cluster of alter personalities.
		But the study of dissociative conditioning in traumatized preschool children did not reach these conclusions until c1990 (with the work of Dr. Steven Ray, Frank Putnam, Catherine Gould and others) nearly a decade after the first charges of abuse at McMartin were filed.
		In 1989, nearly a year before the verdict of the second trial was delivered, a McMartin mother took note of a van parked in front of her home.
	www.mindcontrolforums.com /hambone/mpsr.html (2434 words)

	THE UNDERGROUND TUNNELS OF McMARTIN PRESCHOOL
		If there were tunnels in McMartin, then at least part of what the children said was true; the rest of their testimony would then be much more credible.
		The outside playhouse at McMartin was also described by some of the children as an access point to the underground tunnels.
		We predict that investigators could select a few preschool hundred children in any locality in North America; interview them about their preschool experiences, using the same manipulative, suggestive methods as were used by the CII; and find dozens of children who would describe trap-doors, tunnels and underground rooms.
	www.religioustolerance.org /tunnels.htm (2772 words)

	Behavior and Social Issues: What was under the McMartin preschool? A review and behavioral analysis of the ...
		ABSTRACT: The McMartin Preschool child abuse case began in 1983 in Manhattan Beach, California, and was one of the most visible cases in history.
		The McMartin preschool case in Manhattan Beach, California, remains one of the most controversial in the history of child abuse cases.
		The McMartin case began in August 1983, when a parent reported to police that her two-year-old son had been molested by McMartin staff member Ray Buckey.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4032/is_200210/ai_n9136028 (1282 words)

	The McMartin Preschool case (1983)
		McMartin wasn't the very first MVMO SRA case - a dubious honor which, as far as I am aware, belongs to Bakersfield / Kern County, also in California.
		The McMartin case began in August 1983 with a complaint to the police by a mentally ill woman named Judy Johnson, who alleged that her son Billy had been molested by Ray Buckey at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, near Los Angeles.
		McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials of 1987 to 1990 in the Famous Trials seminar taught by Doug Linder at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law, including Chronology and The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial: A Commentary
	www.theisticsatanism.com /asp/old/McMartin.html (1172 words)

	McMartin Jury Verdict Readied LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge prepared to unseal verdicts Thurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		McMartin Jury Verdict Readied LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge prepared to unseal verdicts Thursday on 52 counts in a molestation case at a once prestigious nursery school after jurors said they were deadlocked on the remaining 13 charges.
		They are accused of molesting 11 children during a five-year period at their family-owned McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach.
		Therapist Kee McFarlane later defended her work with hundreds of McMartin students, and suggested that the goals of therapy are at odds with the legal standards required for a successful criminal prosecution.
	www.skepticfiles.org /rumor/mcmarver.htm (4042 words)

	McMartin Preschool Revisited by Alex Constantine
		In 1984, shortly after indictments were handed to defendants in the McMartin child molestation case, Gerald Klaas, her husband, drove off a cliff in Oregon and was killed.
		Children alleged in a grand jury hearing that teachers at the preschool had threatened to kill family members if they talked about abuse, It was rumored around town that the Klaas deaths and the McMartin case may have been related.
		She has been known to contort around the facts of ritual abuse in a grotesque parody of journalism and is frequently blind to critical evidence.
	educate-yourself.org /tg/mcmartinpreschoolrevisited1996.shtml (2890 words)

	Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices - McMartin Preschool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		People working at the McMartin Preschool, Manhattan Beach, Southern California, became the targets of a witchhunt that touched off a sex-abuse hysteria across the United States and abroad.
		The other defendant who went to trial was his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, who died over the weekend--daughter of one defendant, mother of another and a defendant herself.
		It resulted in not a single conviction, though seven people were charged in the McMartin case, on a total of 135 counts -- just a series of deadlocks, acquittals and mistrials.
	www.countercult.com /m11.html (756 words)

	DraftMcMartin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1983 hundreds of kids disclosed to their parents and therapists that they were abused at the pretigious McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.
		The existence of tunnels under McMartin Preschool, close enough to the Bohemian Grove, is hardly cause for incredulity.
		The McMartin disclosures to parents and psychologists are identical to those of children victimized in the formative years of the CIA's mind-splintering laboratory experiments.
	webpages.charter.net /geminiwalker/HellMcMartin.html (1146 words)

	Chronology of the McMartin Preschool and Kelly Michaels Child Abuse Trials
		The Curries, McMartin parents, sue Virginia McMartin, Peggy Buckey, and Ray Buckey for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
		Ray Buckey, Peggy Buckey, Virginia McMartin, Peggy Ann Buckey (Ray's sister), Mary Ann Jackson, Bette Raidor, and Babette Spitler are indicted on 115 counts of child sexual abuse.
		A group of nearly 50 McMartin Preschool parents, led by Bob Currie, arrive at a lot next to the school and begin digging for the "secret underground rooms" they believe were the scene of massive sexual abuse of children.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartinchrono.html (917 words)

	The McMartin Daycare Case - The Crime library
		In legal tradition, it is the province of the judge to determine whether an expert witness is truly an expert.
		She had opened a preschool on the main drag and hired members of her family and church to help build and run it.
		However, when he returned home from the preschool, she claimed, his anus was red and itchy.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/psychology/mcmartin_daycare/1.html (640 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1983, the family-run McMartin Preschool Nursery in Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, was subjected to a sexual-abuse investigation that lasted six years, cost taxpayers $16 million and initially identified 42 children as victims.
		In August 1983, the owners and teachers of the McMartin PreSchool in California were accused of sexually abusing one of their students.
		With all the publicity surrounding the McMartin preschool trial, now over a decade removed, one would suppose that the definitive book on the subject-and this is certainly the definitive book, and a good one at that-would be a best seller, but it didn't happen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879758090?v=glance (1773 words)

	IPT Journal - "Learning From the McMartin Hoax"
		Summit (1986) has written in a Los Angeles Times editorial that the McMartin children were the victims of sexual abuse, that the social worker, Kee MacFarlane, and the Children's institute International used proper, up-to-the-minute techniques to interview the children, and that the crumbling of the prosecution merely points to weaknesses in the criminal justice system.
		It involved an eight-year-old boy who was four years old when he attended the preschool, and Kee McFarlane, an unlicensed social worker who was (and is) the director of the diagnostic clinic of the Children's Institute International.
		Having seen similar examples over and over in the McMartin tapes, only one conclusion is reasonable: MacFarlane and her trainees had decided before the first interview that children were molested at the McMartin preschool.
	www.ipt-forensics.com /journal/volume1/j1_2_7.htm (2534 words)

	McMartin Preschool Revisited by Alex Constantine
		She was the first mother to speak publicly about child molestation at McMartin and sympathizers of the Buckeys in the press have gone to great lengths to portray Johnson as "crazy." Her life was inverted the day her son came home from the McMartin school, bleeding.
		The tunnel excavation, she assures with psychic certainty (and a sniff of condescension), is a "hoax." To come to the point: Nathan's propaganda, repeated in the New York Times and a host of other corporate publications, happened to conceal a classified mind control operation the CIA and Pentagon had undertaken thirty years before....
		And the McMartin children weren't suffering "false memories." These days, the images -- frequently combined with an electronic form of hypnosis -- are projected to the brain's visual pathways, received with perfect clarity.
	www.whale.to /b/constantine3.html (4769 words)

	No, no evidence of any 'tunnels' at the McMartin Preschool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To meet that end, such events as were described in the McMartin Preschool fiasco would have to be common.
		The organization that sprung up around these freakishly bizarre McMartin allegations is called "Believe the Children." Their goal was to make Americans believe claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse regardless of the fact that there's no evidence ___because___ there's no evidence.
		Since ipso facto SRA is real and there's a massive world-wide Satanic conspiracy (needed to coincide with their end-of-the-world religious beliefs) the reason why there'sno evidence is because the perps are very good at hiding it and becase law enforcement, teachers, and half the American populace is involved.
	www.skeptictank.org /notunls.htm (531 words)

	Archaeological Investigations
		Excavation was carried out according to established scientific conventions with a careful research design defining what might prove or disprove the existence of "an underground feature that would connect to the surface of the site and extend underground for some distance..(with) dimensions large enough to accomodate adult human movement through it." (p 24)
		A stack of twenty or more unused, light brown asphalt tile, appearing to be exactly the same as the tile used throughout the entire interior floor of the preschool, was discovered in the cupboard under the kitchenette sink in the office (p.
		In order to check the preschool floor thoroughly for any patches or replaced areas of concrete, all of the tile would have to be removed and the mastic would have to be sandblasted or chemically removed.
	tesserae.org /tess/prose/tunnels2.html (5448 words)

	Prometheus Books
		After searching the school and the homes of the owners and teachers, police distributed a letter to parents of children attending the McMartin Preschool urging them to ask their children if they have witnessed any acts of sexual molestation by Buckey.
		Parents were then informed that every child who had attended the McMartin Preschool had been sexually abused, which led to charges being filed against Virginia McMartin, Peggy McMartin Buckey, Raymond and Peggy Ann Buckey and three other teachers at the school.
		The ensuing trial triggered a nationwide epidemic of child sexual abuse cases with allegations of infants being raped by devil worshippers and of blood sacrifices.
	www.prometheusbooks.com /site/catalog/book_817.html (311 words)

	Satanic ritual abuse and McMartin: a global village rumour
		Her own anxieties were officially communicated to two hundred other parents and soon counsellors began to subject young children to a barrage of leading questions designed to elicit ‘disclosures’.
		Then, as Judy Johnson’s claims became increasingly bizarre, the word spread that the school at the centre of the panic – the McMartin Preschool – was actually the cover for a sex ring.
		His theory that McMartin was the visible tip of a vast international satanic conspiracy was eagerly adopted by some parents and therapists and used to obtain yet more ‘disclosures’ from children.
	www.richardwebster.net /speakofthedevil.html (2373 words)

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