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Three years ago, the nation's most infamous child-molestation case erupted in the Los Angeles suburb of Manhattan Beach. Seven teachers and administrators at the prestigious McMartin Preschool would eventually be indicted on hundreds of counts of child sexual abuse. There were tales of drugs, bondage and the mutilation of animals...
...California history, a judge ruled that the prosecution of the seven could go forward. But a week later District Attorney Ira Reiner dropped all charges against five of the defendants, calling the evidence against them "incredibly weak." The two remaining accused, Raymond Buckey, 28, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, were to be tried last month. Now their day in court has been postponed and the case against them thrown into turmoil by the only element the tale seemed to lack, a touch of Hollywood...
Despite Stevens' charges, D.A. Reiner maintains, "there is strong, compelling evidence that the two are guilty." Whether Buckey and his mother will benefit from the disclosures is still to be decided. The personal costs of the McMartin case, however, have already been high. Raymond Buckey, who has been in jail for 33 months without bail, said on 60 Minutes last month that the sexual-abuse scandal had already ruined his life and that of his family. "They've burned a scarlet letter on me that I can never get rid of," he said. The McMartin parents must endure the dark...
...mentioned strange conversations with the woman (her name has not been made public) who set the McMartin case in motion by complaining that her two-year-old son had been molested. In her talks with Stevens, he said, she claimed that she had been followed and that her dog had been sodomized. "I mean it's really beginning to be pathetic," Stevens says on the tapes, adding, "She had accused her husband of molesting the child." The woman, he concluded, was a "banana truck." Questions about the mental state of the boy's mother had also been raised...
...willing to go to prison rather than submit outtakes of [the CBS documentary] The Selling of the Pentagon. " Stanton, who retired from CBS in 1971, has not seen the movie but says that, in general, "I feel negatively about docudramas." Despite the unflattering portrayal, he adds, Actor McMartin wrote him an admiring letter...