Buckeys And Macmartin Case Summary

The Indictment is movie that follows the prosecution of the Buckey and MacMartin family. The average family was being accused and tried for child abuse, child molestation, and even satanic rituals. The Buckey’s and MacMartin own a preschool in California where these allegations are said to be derived from. The first time these allegations came to light was when a mother of a child from the preschool, Judy Johnson, said her son was touched by Ray Buckey and also his father. From there, investigations started and the story began. From there, all the children enrolled in the preschool were sent to a therapist in order to see what other information the kids could provide. After these sessions over 100 accounts of child abuse and molestation were …show more content…
Over 100 kids had a session with Kee McFarlane with Children’s Institute International (CII). Eighty percent of the kids said to have been violated in one way or the other. This news spread like wildfire with the media following this case very closely. It seemed like there was no way that the Buckey/MacMartin family were getting out of this. Each one of the members were sentenced to jail as the trial was going on. Everything started to turn when the prosecutors paid a visit to Malcom and Judy Johnson, the family that started these allegations. While talking to Malcolm, he said that his dad was the one that violated him, not Ray Buckey. From then, they knew that these kids could be lying or tricked into lying. This leads to Glenn Stevens, one of the prosecutors, to resign from the case and the DA’s office. All of sudden, Danny Davis receives the original report of the allegation that he never received. This report stated that Malcolm’s dad was also mentioned in the allegation. If this was seen by the defense, it would have changed the whole course of the case. Danny then looks at all the videos from the therapy sessions. He concluded that Kee McFarlane, who is running the