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...said that except for her parents, "I have never told anyone until now, not even my husband." Hawkins described the incident after a brief discussion with Kee MacFarlane, an expert on the sexual abuse of children, who is counseling some of the 125 children who were molested at the McMartin School, a day-care center in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Hawkins, a member of an informal group called the Senate Children's Caucus, thought her disclosure would help parents accept their children's stories of sexual abuse. Said she: "It's bothered me all this time that...
LAST WEEK Time magazine reported on the indictment of 76-year-old nursery school owner Virginia McMartin for the sexual abuse of some 125 pre-schooners over the past ten years. Ten article, listed similar incidents across the country and noted. "It is only now beginning to dawn on many authorities that the sexual abuse of children has become a major social problem...
Time attributed the silence of McMartin's young victims to the terror and guilt they experienced, along with the naivete of parents, who the writers say assumed "that separation anxiety was the reason their children cried when dropped off at school...
Wearing Snoopy earrings and a purple coat dotted with Teddy-bear pins, Virginia McMartin, 76, a white-haired widow, sat in a wheelchair last week in a Los Angeles superior court, her head bowed low. McMartin, three relatives and three other women faced charges that they sodomized, fondled and raped more than 100 preschool children at a day-care center run by McMartin in Manhattan Beach, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles...
...McMartin's grandson Raymond Buckey, 25, was arrested in connection with that incident, but was later freed for lack of evidence. The arrest sparked a wider investigation, and in November the school shut down. Twenty-five families have filed civil suits against the nursery, some asking more than $1 million in damages. "Virginia McMartin was a sweet little old lady," said an incredulous father, whose three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter were, in his words, "brutalized" at the center. "We thought it was the best place for our children...