Mcmartin Case: Another Famous Preschool Abuse Case

Another famous preschool abuse case is Fort Bragg preschool, also in California. Similar accusations were made in this case as with the McMartin case, but on top of all of the McMartin accusations, teachers and staff members were also accused of having children being buried in coffins, being tortured with water, being forced to perform mock marriages with other students as well as the devil, having medical operations where the teacher would “take out” the children's hearts and place something else inside the body usually something with a negative or satanic connotation, and being hung upside down or tied up over a “star” or pentagram, the symbol of satanists. Also similar to the McMartin case, people believed all of these accusations were fake or make believe; however, proving this case was slightly different than proving the McMartin trial. …show more content…
To further prove her research, Hudson conducted a mass telephone survey to randomly selected parents of children at eleven schools, including those of McMartin and Fort Bragg preschools, that had ritual abuse accusations, not only did every child show symptoms of being ritually abused, every parent either filed a court case against school staff members or teachers, notified the authorities, or even put their child in therapy for learning how to cope with the violent acts. Although the teachers and staff members were not convicted of any accusation made, medical examiners and Pamela Hudson have proved that the accusations made were true and the children are all coping with the suffering they have been