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participate in the sacrifices. They said they were urinated on, defecated on, spanked and received
threats including bombing of their homes.
The children also described how, once in the house next door, they were loaded into
vehicles and taken into the community and used as child prostitutes. Another accusation included
satanic rituals had taken place in a grocery store, a church, a cemetery, a crematorium and at a
mountain site, which they were flown into. There were dozens of suspects implicated by the
children who were never charged.
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These included a doctor, “an actor, household name
politicians, professional baseball players and professional football players.”
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The children’s parents met with what they considered stonewalling by the authorities so
they “began their own forays in the neighborhood. Children led them to a mortuary/crematory
where they claimed to have pummeled dead bodies and watched people burn. Parents were
convinced that interior decorating confirmed the identity with details anticipated by children's
descriptions.” “In addition to the mortuary discovery parents followed a child-guided route in
search of “the doctor's house” where blood rituals had been described. They found a residence in
an affluent community some 20 miles away matching the description offered independently by
several children. Authorities confirmed it was owned by a physician. No further information was
ever divulged.”
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As a result of the serious allegations and the number of complainants, the Children’s
Institute International (CII) took interest in the case and set about interviewing former pupils
from McMartin. At least 389 were interview, “the vast majority of whom had the same repertoire
of ‘memories’ of occult molestation and terror.” According to CII, 80 percent of the victims had
physical or medical symptoms synonymous with abuse. The CII alleges that physical symptoms
included scar tissue in the child’s anus or vagina. Medical symptoms included rectal bleeding,
painful bowel movements and a condition called “wick anal reflex,” this condition allegedly
occurs only as a result of “violent” penetration of the anus.
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Seven people were initially charged as a result of investigations; later charges were
dropped against five of the defendants. There were two trials; the first trial resulted in a hung
jury. On January 18, 1990 Raymond Buckey and Peggy McMartin Buckey were acquitted of 52
counts of child molestation. Like often happens in cases like this, the jury never heard all the
evidence.
Authorities looked for the tunnels in 1985 but didn’t find any; they had been filled in. In
1991 the property was sold and parents gained access to the site through the new owner. The
tunnels were located. An archaeologist from UCLA, E. Gary Stickel, PhD., and a
team of professionals agreed to excavate the tunnels. The allotted time to access the site
expired before the excavation was complete but what the team discovered made the children’s
story very credible.
The entrance to the tunnel was where the children said it was. Once excavated the tunnels
matched the descriptions of the children including a pipe that protruded through the tunnel for
which a person needed to duck their head while passing through the tunnel. The tunnels averaged
4.5 feet wide and 5 feet 11 inches high. There was an underground room with a ceiling height of
6 feet 8 inches. Although excavation of the tunnel was not completed, the tunnel lined up with
and was heading for a whole that was discovered in the floor of the house next door. There was
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