"When you once believed something that now strikes you as absurd, even unhinged, it can be almost impossible to summon that feeling of credulity again. In The Devil in The Nursery in 2001, Margaret Talbot for the New York Times summarized the case: In 2005 one of the testifying children retracted his testimony and said he lied, to protect his younger siblings and to please his parents. Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin were eventually released without any charges. Judy Johnson was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia and in 1986 was found dead in her home from complications of chronic alcoholism. The accusations involved hidden tunnels, killing animals, Satan worship, and orgies. As of 2006, it is the longest and most expensive criminal trial in the history of the United States. After seven years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990. The case started in August 1983 when Judy Johnson, the mother of a 2½ year-old boy reported to the police that her son was abused by Raymond Buckey at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. Their convictions were overturned in 1996. In 1985, each of the McCuans and the Kniffens was sentenced to over 240 years in prison. Mary Ann Barbour reported that the children had been used for prostitution, used in child pornography, tortured, and made to watch snuff films. In 1982, the girls further accused McCuan's defense witnesses: Scott Kniffen, his wife Brenda, and his mother. Coercive interviewing techniques were used by the authorities to ellicit disclosures of parental sexual abuse from the children. The initial charges were made by Mary Ann Barbour, the children's step-grandmother, who had a history of mental illness. In 1982 in Kern County, California, Debbie and Alvin McCuan were accused of abusing their own children. The Kern County child abuse case was the first prominent instance of accusations of ritualized sex abuse of children. Significant cases Kern County child abuse cases
2.2 False allegations when interviewing children.
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