Indictment: The McMartin Trial Page #12

to represent the teachers,

did you not? Yes.

Did you choose black dolls to represent Raymond Buckey,

Miss McFarlane? The children pick the dolls. Your Honor, I would like

to present into evidence sections of the video tape

made by Miss McFarlane

of the children. Thank you. Thank you. Kee on video:

Under their dresses

they have bloomers. And the little boys have,

guess what, down here? A real looking penis. Now, which doll do you think would be good for Ray?

Girl:

I don't know. Okay, how about...

this one. Okay? What I like is their hair. Even though it doesn't really

look like real hair. Does it? Girl:

It's fuzzy. Look! He's got a little hair on his great big ugly penis! Were you trying to teach these

children a little

bit of racism? I don't associate

the use of dolls

of different color with racism. You weren't tryin'

to make them think that Ray Buckey

was a bad man, were you? I don't perceive a black doll

as inherently having

a negative characteristic. How about when you remove

the doll's pants and add, "Oh, he has hair

on his great, "big, ugly penis?" I commented

about all of the dolls. I was trying to let them know

I was the kind of person

they could say anything to. And who is this? Miss Peggy.

Miss Peggy. Now, doesn't she have

funny looking boobies? Look at these little

hard things that stick out. Have you ever seen boobies

with these lines in them? Some of the kids

at school told me that

her real name is Miss Piggy, 'cause she's kinda fat.

Is that true? Why do you call her Miss Piggy

instead of Miss Peggy? What do you mean

when you talk about

her b*obs with lines? I don't think you

understand how frightened

these children were. An attempt to jog

their memories, sort out

which teacher was which. All right, Mr. Monkey,

are you gonna be stupid or are you gonna be smart

and help us out here? 'Cause some people

think you're stupid,

Mr. Monkey. Well, I'll be smart.

You will? Mmm-hmm.

Okay. Monkey's a chicken, and he can't remember

any of the naked games. But we think that we know

a game that Mr. Monkey

remembers. It's the naked

movie star game. Do you remember that game?

Or is your memory too bad? Danny:

You told Sam

that he was stupid, and that he was a chicken, and that his memory

was too bad.

Is that right? I was talking

to the puppet. You don't think little Sam

thought you were

calling him dumb? If I believed that, Mr. Davis,

I wouldn't have said it. Now what the other kids did

is they took this doll of Ray and they started...

like that. (banging) Wanna punch him

like the other kids did? Go ahead. That's it.

(banging) Good for you.

Good for you. You wanna punch him?

Go ahead. Why did you encourage her

to beat the doll that was supposed

to represent Ray? Don't you think

this kind of thing leads the children

to believe that he

was a bad man? Not at all.

It was therapy. It's best that they let

their anger out, rather than keeping it

bottled up inside

of themselves for years. It can become a time bomb

if it's repressed. Sandra Krebs, your assistant.

You taught her your

technique. Did you not? Yes, I did.

And she was initially employed as your video camera operator,

was she not? You seem to give

a great priority to formal

education, Mr. Davis. Miss McFarlane, this was,

in your words, "One of the biggest

molestation cases "in the history of the world." Why didn't you hire

the most experienced

person you could get? Because some of them

wouldn't have had the courage

to do what had to be done. What courage was that?

Simply to find

out the truth. Remember all the times your mom asked you

if anything happened? 159 times. I know what we'll do. We tried this

with another little girl. Here's Big Bird. Now, what this

little girl did was she squeaked once for no

and twice for yes.

(toy squeaks) Can you do that? Once for no

and twice for yes. When Jennifer

was touched at the school, was it a hand

that touched her? (squeaks once)

No. No.

Did Ray sometimes do yucky

things to some of the kids? (squeaks once)

No. Sometimes people we like

can touch kids in places that

are uncomfortable and scary. Did you know that Ray

did that to some of the kids? (squeaks once)

Danny, Kee:
No. We don't want

to hear any more, "No's." No, no, no, no, no! You told this child's parents

that she was molested,

did you not? We said she was in denial.

Did the parents

see all of the tapes? I beg your pardon?

Did they see all

of the tapes, Miss McFarlane? No. We were interviewing

400 children and more

were calling all the time. So all you had to do

was press fast-forward

on the VCR, and you had at your fingertips

each child saying

whether or not he or she had been molested,

is that correct? You give me too much credit,

Mr. Davis. The very idea that after

an hour or two with me,

a child would say he was molested even

if he wasn't makes me out to be

some sort of genius. Children... between three and six can be very easily tricked. They are at this developmental

stage of magical thinking. It is very easy

to intimidate them. You did make that statement,

didn't you, Miss McFarlane? I knew what would happen

when I put myself on the line

with these tapes. I knew people like you

would pick apart every word,

every inflection. But somebody had to do it,

Mr. Davis, so the children

could tell the truth. The truth?

Was what you got the truth? What are you trying

to suggest? I would deliberately plant

false ideas in their heads? Is what why you think

I entered into all of this? No, I think you entered

into all of this

for a very noble reason: to help children

that you honestly thought

had been traumatized, and maybe spare them

going through another trauma

in this very courtroom. But I also believe

that you must have known what a dangerous technique

this was, highly suggestive, a technique that was meant

to be used where abuse

was already

an established fact. And yet, in this case,

there was no such evidence

that abuse had occurred. And you went ahead and used

this technique anyway. And this technique

became the evidence. That's ridiculous.

Of course there was abuse. The children told me,

I heard them, and you

and the entire justice system are trying to stop them

from telling the truth. Well, I don't blame you

for not wanting to face

reality, Miss McFarlane. Because the reality is this: You didn't listen

to these children. You closed your ears

to the truth that they were so desperately

trying to tell you. You ended up implanting

instead in their fertile

imaginations a memory of something

that never happened. Why would I do that?

Well, I don't know why,

Miss McFarlane, I do know that Mr. Satz

came along, didn't he? And then you suddenly

became the Joan of Arc

of the children's movement. Your Honor...

You were the champion

of children's rights, their savior.

Judge:

Mr. Davis! Maybe it all went

to your head. Maybe the power trip

was too much to resist. Rubin:

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