To the editor: As a journalist, I lined the McMartin Preschool case for 5 years for numerous magazines. Whereas I’m relieved to see that the majority within the media have lastly seen the sunshine about this case, and determine it now as a gross miscarriage of justice, I stay astonished by the entire lack of accountability of those that perpetrated this fraud. (“Wild claims of mass youngster molestation rocked an L.A. seaside city. Reality was the primary casualty,” July 17)
As The Occasions’ article rightly described, the case concerned “the epic failure of trusted establishments: legislation enforcement, courts, the child-therapy institution and the media.”
The McMartin defendants misplaced greater than their preschool and their reputations. They misplaced their properties, financial savings, their freedom and emerged as “monsters” who had rocks thrown by their home windows and loss of life threats. Defendant Ray Buckey was held in solitary confinement with no bail for 5 years.
His sister’s hair was set on fireplace whereas she rode to court docket with different inmates within the sheriff’s van.
And but, to today, regardless of consciousness now that they have been harmless victims of hysteria, ambition and incompetence, nobody in authority has stepped up and accomplished something for the McMartin household to make up for this gross injustice. That’s shameful.
Mary A. Fischer, Los Angeles
