by albion » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:37 pm
In today's LA Times, a McMartin student apologizes:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I think I got the satanic details by picturing our church. We went to American Martyrs, which was a huge Catholic church. Every Sunday we had to go, and Mass would last an hour, hour and a half. None of us wanted to go: It was kicking and screaming all the way there. Sitting, standing, sitting, standing. What I would do was picture the altar, pews and stained-glass windows, and if [investigators] said, "Describe an altar," I would describe the one in our church. Or instead of, "There was a priest in a green suit"—someone who was real—I would say, "A man dressed in red as a cult member." From going to church you know that God is good, and the devil is bad and has horns and is about evil and red and blood. I'd just throw a twist in there with Satan and devil-worshipping.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-mcmartin44oct30,0,6197551,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines">www.latimes.com/features/...-headlines</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Found via Kevin Drum's Washington Monthly blog post (in case anybody wants to go over and tell him what you think in comments):<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The McMartin Preschool case is, in some sense, old news. By now, it's common knowledge that the charges of child abuse and satanic rituals at McMartin were untrue, whipped up by hysteria, local newscasters, and bad child psychology into one of the most monumental miscarriages of justice in recent memory.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_10/007448.php">www.washingtonmonthly.com...007448.php</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>