The McMartin case: indict the children, jail the parents

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So now the McMartin parents can triumphantly torture poor Ray Buckey again, abetted by the cowards and opportunists in the justice system. But if people can be prosecuted on the words of children, then children should take full responsibility for what they are saying. If a child says he saw Ray Buckey kill a horse with a baseball bat (which one did claim) and if this charge is disproved (which it was), then the child should be indicted for perjury, with present prohibition against such infant indictment removed.

If a parent abetted the child in this false accusation, then this parent should be indicted for perjury, too. If the court then establishes that parent and child were lying, at least the parent should suffer the consequences. A few well-publicized sentences of imprisonment of parents (along with "therapists" and social workers, it goes without saying) and we would see a speedy end to these disgusting miscarriages of justice.

source: Article 'The McMartin Case: Indict the Children, Jail the Parents' by Alexander Cockburn (columnist for The Nation and the Anderson Valley (Calif.) Advertiser); The Wall Street Journal; 8 February 1990