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Do you remember when 360 children described ritual abuse through secret tunnels? And after everyone was acquitted, archaeologists found the tunnels? In 1983, children at McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach made allegations. Not vague claims. 360 children, consistent descriptions taken through underground passages to hidden rooms photographed, rituals, multiple perpetrators, medical evidence documented abuse, seven year trial, longest in US history.
All defendants acquitted. Media declared it satanic panic, proof children fabricate abuse through suggestion. Then archaeologist e Gary Stickle excavated the demolished site. He found hand dug tunnel systems beneath the preschool, entrance points where children described them, exit locations matching testimony. He published his findings, but McMartin remained the definitive false allegation case, raises which one question, if children fabricated the tunnels through suggestion, why did archaeologists find them exactly where children said they'd be?