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About the worst thing that can happen to a child is to be sexually molested. About the worst thing that can happen to an adult is to be wrongly accused of committing such a heinous crime. The tragedy of last week's not-guilty verdict in the McMartin case, the longest, most expensive trial in U.S. history, is that both horrors may have occurred. Said Judge William Pounders: "The case has poisoned everyone who had contact with...
This week jury selection continues in Los Angeles in the notorious McMartin Preschool case. In a trial expected to last more than a year, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, and her son Raymond, 28, face charges involving 99 counts of sexual molestation. But similar charges against the school's founder and four former teachers were dropped because of insufficient evidence. The five, who are pursuing a joint $50 million defamation and negligence suit, claim their lives were ruined. "It cost us our home," says Betty Raidor, 67, who spent three months in jail until she could make the $750,000 bail...
...made by men, not social forces: he ends many scenes with one or two figures frozen in silhouette. The acting is mostly serviceable, with three happy exceptions: John Heard as Prince Hal is unmistakably regal even in his giddiest antics; Bruce McGill rockets with energy as Hotspur; and John McMartin proves imperiously perfect as King Henry IV but insufficiently charismatic, if cunning, as Falstaff. W.A.H...
...touchy business of telling kids what it is all about and how to confront it. More than 50,000 children in Ohio and 80,000 in California have watched or played in the Uncle Harry show. The State of California, shocked by the arraignment of seven people from the McMartin School in Manhattan Beach on 208 counts of child molesting, has just passed an $11.25 million bill to expand sex-abuse programs in public schools...
...have never been so angered as I was after reading your report of the sadistic and abominable treatment inflicted upon the youngsters who attended the McMartin School in California [BEHAVIOR, April 23]. Although I am not in favor of the death penalty, I think death must be the only acceptable punishment for so heinous a crime...