From 1987 to 1990, in the longest criminal trial in American history,
prosecutors tried to prove that Virginia McMartin, who owned a
preschool in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and other school employees,
including her daughter and grandson, had raped or abused 13 children,
taken pornographic pictures of them and forced them to watch the
mutilation of animals.
One
witness in the preliminary hearing, a 10-year-old boy, testified that
he had seen hundreds of animals slaughtered, and that priests and nuns
had abused him in a dozen satanic rituals. Vigilante parents went
through people’s garbage and used a backhoe to excavate a lot next to
the school, looking for the skeletons of slaughtered classroom pets.