but it doesn’t justify inaccuracy and defamation,” said Wisot, ruling in a civil trial completed in less than a day. “However, the proof does not rise to punitive damages.” The plaintiffs--preschool founder Virginia McMartin, her daughter Peggy McMartin Buckey and granddaughter Peggy ...
Even in trying to address child molestation trials as a generic issue, the show was overwhelmingly concerned with the ordeal of the children caught up in the McMartin case. No one would reject that as a legitimate concern. But what about the ordeal of the seven original defendants, especially ...
Daniel Lewis, an attorney with the state agency, said that children had been swapped, since at least 1979, between the school and the McMartin nursery a mile away, for child prostitution and pornography. Other preschools in the area then came under suspicion of being involved in those alleged...
He said the preschool site, acquired by Virginia McMartin in 1966, had been a horse stable and was inhabited by all sorts of farm animals. The presence of bones, he said, “should surprise no one. My understanding is all sorts of animals were buried there, as well as trash and other d...