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Newspaper article.

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A tunnel found under the preschool.

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The McMartin Preschool.

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Lidner, Doug "The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial: A Commentary" University of Missouri Kansas city 2003. wes. 13 October 2015.

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We believe that if the parents, mostly Judy Johnson, would not have started making accusations that are very far fetched, and asked their children, this whole situation could, been avoided.

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Following the mistrial, Renier, the district attorney, chose not to retry Buckey. This would have been a third trial, and all charges were then dropped. Of course, Ray Buckey, his mother, the parents and children lives were never the same.

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Magazine from the time of the McMartin Trial.

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Newspaper clip from the trial.

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This is Ray Buckey himself at the second trial.

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While all of the trials were going on, Ray Buckey, Parents, and Children all payed the price. The first trial started on July 14, 1987. Ray denied each and every prosecution charge. On November 2, 1989, after 30 months of testimony the case went to the jury. The jury took 2.5 months deliberating its verdicts. The 2nd trial took 13 days. After a 3 month trial they decided that it was a dead lock on all eight counts.

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Looking back, some of the possible explanations are that the children were saying that Ray Buckey had touched them in bad places. There were multiple parents in the community saying he was sexually abusing their children. The police says that was such "evidence" as a rubber duck, a graduation robe, a teddy bear, and Playboy magazines. But there were no sexual abuse marks.

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The expansion started when Judy Johnson made a bizarre statement. Some examples include Judy Buckey, Ray's mother, took Judy Johnson's son to a church and him made watch the beheading of a baby and made him drink blood. She also insisted that Ray sodomized her son while his head was in the toilet.
Also there were accusations made that sexual photographs were taken of the children. Parents were taken in for interviews, and then everything took off.

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In Manhattan Beach California 1980, Judy Johnson,  mother of 2 1/2 year old son said to detective Jane Hoag, "Ray Buckey, the 25-year-old son of the owner of the preschool, had molested her son." Police chief Harry Kulhmeyer sent  a letter to the parents informing them that Ray Buckey was suspected of child abuse.