Compare and contrast: Buckey Freed on $1.5-Million Bail After 5 Years in Jail (1989)
A smiling Raymond Buckey, the principal defendant in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case, was released on $1.5-million bail from Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail on Wednesday night after spending nearly five years behind bars.
Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, are in the 22nd month of their trial on 65 counts of child molestation and conspiracy involving 11 children who attended their family-run nursery school in Manhattan Beach. She is free on $295,000 bail.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Pounders ordered Buckey released last week after determining that he had met the $1.5-million bail by pledging real estate worth twice that amount, as required by law.
He had been jailed since March, 1984, when he was arrested along with his mother, grandmother, sister and three other former teachers at the school, which has since closed. Charges against all of the defendants, except Buckey and his mother, have been dropped.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-16-mn-3579-story.html
The real witch hunt that involved badgering children to say, after hours of interrogation, that they traveled through tunnels to be molested in Africa and returned hours later and that Chuck Norris was involved in the sex things.
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