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Chronology
of Daycare Abuse Trials
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Famous Trials
The McMartin
Preschool
Abuse Trials
1987-90
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Images
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Letter
to Parents
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Police
Interview with Accuser
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"Victim"
Interviews
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The McMartin Preschool in
Manhatttan
Beach, California |
Transcript
Excerpts
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| Peggy
Buckey Interview |
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The
Suggestibility of Children
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| Kelly
MichaelsTrial
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The
McMartin Preschool Trials
by
Douglas
Linder (c)
2003
"They're
putting
on witnesses who they know are lying. They concealed exonerating
evidence. Don't we have enough criminal conduct by the
prosecutors
to put them behind bars?"
"It doesn't work
that way,"
the lawyer laughed. "The law is just for the little people.
When we break the rules we go to jail. When they break the rules
they go to lunch...."
"But what about the
law?" the woman
gasped. "What about the Constitution?"
"I'm afraid that's
just one
of those nice, comforting fantasies like the tooth fairy. There
are
two classes of people. Those who hold power and those who do
not.
And in any dispute the guys who hold power will decide which way it's
going
to go....I hope you understand that this is not about child abuse, just
as McCarthyism was not about Communists."
--- Eberle, Paul and
Shirley. The
Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial ( 1993)
(reporting
a discussion between a friend of the Buckeys and a defense lawyer) |
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Reversal
of
Michaels's
Conviction |
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Modern-Day
Salem Witchcraft Trials?
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Bibliography
and Links
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