Indictment: The McMartin Trial Page #7

their waists. And it would

look really scary. And sometimes they'd

have devil suits on. Woman:

Devil suits? Yeah. And we were forced

to drink rabbit blood. (all murmuring) Reporter:

The witness, a ten-year-old boy, gave perhaps the most

terrorizing testimony so far as he told

the court about... Did you hear what he said

in there? They'll kill us.

I know. Sacrifices in a church,

devils...

Just take it easy, Christine. Glenn, has Rubin

been telling Reiner

the problems we're having? I don't know.

Well, she told me

she would. I mean,

if she doesn't, I will. ...told a rapt courthouse

how he was forced to drink the blood

of a slaughtered rabbit. Satz on TV:

What did you think

of Brian's testimony? Do you think there

was actually Satanism...

Danny:
This is unbelievable. ...at the McMartin school?

Can you believe this sh*t? I mean, sacrifices,

group sex, people walking

around in robes.

I mean, next they're gonna have some kid telling

about the guy they nailed

to a cross, or the virgin they sacrificed

on the altar.

This is getting scary. It's out of control.

Don't you think? Hon? Don't you think so?

I do. I think this

is out of control. I believe we may be dealing

with a nationwide conspiracy

of child predators who are operating

daycare centers

as a cover for child abuse. Reporter:

Satanism, devil worship is being practiced

all across the country. We have all types

of perversion. Reporter:

Is cannibalism

part of the rituals? The children have spoken

about this... Children were made

to chew pieces of these children's hearts. Pieces of their flesh. Reporter:

When parents begin

to realize these things are really happening,

and not just something

out of the Dark Ages, it'll be much more difficult

for these people to pull these things off.

(children shouting) When we hear

of ritual sacrifices, our reaction

is one of horrific avoidance. We say things like,

"This only happened

in the Middle Ages." It doesn't mean that children

are not telling the truth. (children shouting) Danny:

So where is your storage room? Man: I'll show you.

Danny:
Oh. This is it? You can see the whole room

from the store. My cashier is over there. He can see everything

from the cash register. And it's always

been this way?

Always. (cash register dings) Glenn:

Is there any way what

he said could have happened? Priest:

Well, our doors

are always locked. We had a robbery

in the office one night and the police told us

that they wouldn't

give us any surveillance unless we kept

the doors locked. Could someone

have broken in? No. Not without the

treasurer or the secretary

or the accountant hearing it from the chapel. (vacuum whirring) (reporters clamoring) Could you hold

the door, please? (clamoring continues) Reporter:

Hold it! Virginia! Hold that right there. Are you sure you can ride

in the same elevator

as us, Mr. Satz? We might pull out a rabbit

and drink its blood, or take off our clothes

and dance around naked. Miss Buckey,

I don't make the news.

I just report it. How do you expect

anybody to know your side

if you won't tell them what you're feeling,

and that you're innocent? (elevator dings)

You wouldn't be interested

and you know it. All you want is Ray Buckey

trapped like an animal! No comment. Sorry, no comment. Virginia McMartin

flashed kids

from her wheelchair! Peggy Ann Buckey made

a three-year-old child

copulate her. You couldn't care less

about the truth! No more questions.

What were you thinking?

Don't you ever do that. Don't ever do that again!

Why not? This whole thing

is a farce. Nothing happened at school.

You know it, and he knows it! I'm sorry, no comment.

Somebody has to

be the voice of sanity. I like your witnesses. One of them recants, saying he was making it all up

so you wouldn't be sad. The other says he went

to Saint Cross Church and a rabbit

was killed on the altar and he had to drink its blood. What are you trying to do,

win your case or audition

for "Saturday Night Live"? Why in the hell

did you use them? Christine:

I'll answer that for Glenn. Because they're

the best witnesses we have. What about the tapes?

You have to see them

to believe them. What does that mean?

The kids don't have

to say anything. Kee McFarlane and Sandy Krebs

tell them everything. If they say they

weren't molested,

they say, "Well, everybody else

said you were,

so you must be wrong." And if they say they

were molested, say,

"Boy, you're really amazing." Rubin:

Well, what did you expect? The kids were just

gonna come out and say, "Hey, I was raped

and sodomized?" Especially after they

were threatened with harm to their parents? Reiner:

Let me ask a silly question. Why am I hearing this

for the first time? Didn't anybody look

at the evidence a long time ago? Yes, of course we did.

But when we filed the

charges, there wasn't time. There was just too much of it. We had to rely

on McFarlane's logs. Reiner:

Well, aren't they reliable?

No. They're not. What exactly do we

have going for us? We have a confession.

Man:
Freeman. The guy who was

in the cell with Buckey.

Do you believe him? I don't bring forward witnesses

I don't believe in. I don't like snitches,

and neither do juries. They might not like them,

but they're impressed by them, even if it's only

on a subliminal basis. What about the medical evidence

that they were abused? We can't get any doctor

who is independent of C.I.I. to corroborate it. No one of stature. They say it's inconclusive. Reiner:

I want recommendations.

Stevens. Well, there... there

are problems with the case. But there are other

considerations, too.

Like the media. Please, leave them

out of it. I'm developing

a reasonable doubt on six. I say drop the charges

against the women. Are you serious?

They molested children! Reiner:

What about Buckey?

Can we get a conviction? Maybe.

Maybe? Christine:

He wasn't even at the school

when four of the children are saying he molested them. Glenn:

And the kids' stories

are changing. They said that they were taken

by the teachers to car washes, to mortuaries, to cemeteries. Flown in an airplane

to Palm Springs. Not one piece

of corroboration.

Not one person saw them. All right, look. This office

can do what it wants. As far as I'm concerned,

I don't intend to drop any of the charges

against any of the defendants. I think we have

a clear duty here. But we're not

even sure about Buckey. Look, look. Here is a guy

who abuses drugs, who flunked out of almost

every school he ever attended, who sits in this preschool

day after day with his genitals

exposed to these children. And there's something

even more significant.

What? Let me have

the picture, Glenn. This a picture of Buckey

at a pyramid convention. You see this woman here? She told investigators

she took him to a motel. The woman even paid the tab,

and Buckey couldn't get it up! What does that have to do

with molesting children? Put it together with the rest

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