Indictment: The McMartin Trial Comments

  • Bernadette 2023-05-04 19:05:10

    Public opinion is very scary, and it is the same now. So many people follow the direction of public opinion. If they don't get into the truth of the matter, they will become "facts" if there are enough people. The damage to the McMartin family is irreversible. After knowing the truth and insisting on upholding justice, the McMartin family will be remorseful in the end. Maybe a few years or even months later, new breaking news will come out again. It can't be erased, they can only bear these for...

  • Allene 2023-04-26 15:43:59

    If you can spark a public outrage with something that isn't there, you have the ability to create a tsunami. Any ordinary person or family can be ruthlessly destroyed. And then no...

  • Cathryn 2023-04-10 08:24:01

    This has happened in the past, it is happening now, and it will happen in the future. Politicians, businessmen, and a mob and other forces are entangled, and the life and dignity of any individual can be easily destroyed. What you hear is always an opinion, not a fact, and what you see is always a perspective, not the truth....

  • Aimee 2023-04-05 17:05:40

    The reality is always more imaginative than the story. A family accused of molesting by many children was innocently framed. Adults thought that children would not lie, but ignored that they were easily induced. What is the purpose of this woman who is keen to make up her own stories to induce children? Make yourself a national hero? Or do you believe from the bottom of your heart that these things really happened? Maybe she should be tested for mental delusions! Seven years earlier than The...

  • Jamar 2023-02-08 10:33:40

    'People doesn't listen to God. People listen to...

  • Sydney 2023-01-27 16:24:06

    Put me in jail! I've been in your jail and I know what terrible places they...

  • Antonio 2023-01-27 02:20:55

    Because of the firm belief that "children do not lie", people are convicted before trial, standing on the commanding heights of justice and trampling others. The tyranny of the majority is all too easy to provoke: show the world the stories they want, make them feel righteous, make them inflate, make them wantonly attack others without being responsible for any harm. Seven years of insistence, the McMartin family won back their legal innocence, but lost their reputation, property, and peaceful...

  • Lyla 2022-12-25 16:48:38

    Bravo. . . . . . Hehe... Children don't make up such lies... Haha... Stupid...

  • Ariane 2022-11-22 05:25:30

    It feels a bit similar to hunting, but one is the question of the interrogation process and legal procedures, and the other is the question of the collective morality of the small town. In short, it is very depressing to...

  • Randi 2022-10-24 01:47:29

    The case is actually quite ordinary, but the difference is that this time the whole family is accused, and it is rare for relatives to be in the same prison, especially the role of the accused's mother, the kind of middle-aged woman's vulnerability. Very vivid, not as stubborn as a grandmother, nor as cured as a daughter, sensitive and sympathetic in the middle. Another point worth noting in this film but not digging deeply is how far-reaching a case will be for a family's subsequent...

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Indictment: The McMartin Trial quotes

  • Virginia McMartin: Put me in jail! I've been in your jail and I know what terrible places they are.

  • Peggy Buckey: I'm not bittered. I was raised to not be bitter.

    [in tears]

    Peggy Buckey: We lost everything. We don't have anything. Momma, we don't have anything.