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mtngirl47

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9. It wasn't fraud like these folks are being accused of.

Reply to ShazamIam (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 11:58 PM

4 hrs ago

It was a crazy hysterical story concocted by one parent and then bad techniques interrogating children. Total malpractice by the Los Angeles DA. News media hype and non-stop speculation put it on the front page of newspapers and the lead story on the nightly news.

It was the McMartin Preschool Trial. Here's a wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial#:~:text=The%20McMartin%20preschool%20trial%20was,charges%20were%20dropped%20in%201990.

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It wasn't fraud like these folks are being accused of. mtngirl47 4 hrs ago #9

True I remember it was about wild claims the children were being abused. ShazamIam 4 hrs ago #10

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