The Mcmartin Preschool Trial

McMartin Preschool Trial One of the longest most expensive trials in American history was a very disturbing one and it's called the McMartin Preeschool trial. The Preschool was located in Manhattan Beach, California. This trial was based on accusations of over 360 acts of sexual assault, satanic acts, and killing animals. More than half of the faculty sodomized the young children that attended McMartin. Ray Buckey was one of the first ones convicted and later on more and more of the faculty were discovered in taking part in this. In the McMartin Preschool trial justice was not served because most of the workers at the preschool got convicted of their crime, but not all of them.

First to understand the crime, it is important to know who

As Linder explains Billy’s mother took him to the doctor after school because he said his anus itched. The doctor encountered spots of blood that wasn't supposed to be there. It was result of this doctors visit they came to a conclusion of what had happened earlier that day at school (Linder, "Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials"). A worried mother, Judy Johnson was determined to make this situation known. Linder confirms that Johnson called the police after leaving the doctor’s office because she suspected that Billy’s symptoms consisted of were caused by the faculty at the school earlier that day (Linder, "Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials"). As Kathryn Shelton, a research associate at the O’Neil Center at Southern Methodist University and Richard B. Mckenzie, a professor emeritus in the Merage Business School at the University of California, Irvine notes, this being the first accusation of child molestation brought it straight to trial (Shelton and

What happened to children and famalies involved is very unfortunate. Justice was not served in this case due to the lack of punishment served to those that were accountable for this crime. Once this case was active it opened the eyes to the public and similar cases were discovered around the world. after the case was over society discovered secret tunnels under the school after the case was over where most of the rituals took place. The McMartin Preschool trial is one that should not go unforgotten. What happened to children and famalies involved is very unfortunate. Words to describe the McMartin Preschool Trial would be cruel, traumatic, and life changing, because no family should ever have to go through what the familes of the children attending McMartin Preschool had to go