Kee Macfarlane

The article (Opinion, Feb. 2), "The McMartin Case: Is Reiner Right?", by William J. Genego, an associate clinical professor of law at USC Law Center, reminded me of the old saying, "The Buck Stops Here." Well, Ira Reiner stopped it, much to his credit, after Judge Aviva Bobb took the easy way out and passed the buck to Reiner. As Genego said, "No one can dispute that it would have been much easier and publicly popular for Reiner simply to proceed to trial against all seven defendants."

Mike Wallace wanted to interview Ray Buckey for "60 Minutes." Danny Davis, Buckey's attorney, had instructed his client to refuse all interview requests since he'd been arrested almost three years earlier. But Davis said yes to Wallace. The prestige and exposure of the "60 Minutes" forum was too great to resist, especially at a time when Davis had concluded that the public might finally be ready to take a more "rational" look at the McMartin Pre-School molestation case than it had previously.

Peggy McMartin Buckey, acquitted of molestation charges in the McMartin Pre-School case, filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit Friday, alleging that her civil rights were violated by the county, the City of Manhattan Beach and others. "If there are . . .

He was an aggressive, award-winning investigative reporter--and, at times, an ombudsman paid to criticize his own television station, publicly, on his own television station. But Wayne Satz will always be best known in local journalistic and law enforcement circles for breaking the McMartin Pre-School molestation story. Satz had been working on a general story about child sexual abuse for a couple of months in late 1983 when he first heard about McMartin.

He was an aggressive, award-winning investigative reporter--and, at times, an ombudsman paid to criticize his own television station, publicly, on his own television station. But Wayne Satz will always be best known in local journalistic and law enforcement circles for breaking the McMartin Pre-School molestation story. Satz had been working on a general story about child sexual abuse for a couple of months in late 1983 when he first heard about McMartin.

Mike Wallace wanted to interview Ray Buckey for "60 Minutes." Danny Davis, Buckey's attorney, had instructed his client to refuse all interview requests since he'd been arrested almost three years earlier. But Davis said yes to Wallace. The prestige and exposure of the "60 Minutes" forum was too great to resist, especially at a time when Davis had concluded that the public might finally be ready to take a more "rational" look at the McMartin Pre-School molestation case than it had previously.

Cal State Los Angeles' second regional conference on child abuse will be held Friday at the Red Lion Inn, offering consultation for professionals in child abuse, for school district personnel, and other organizations and community groups interested in the topic. Kee MacFarlane, director of the Sexual Abuse Diagnostic Center at Children's Institute International of Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote address on "The Importance of Primary Prevention Programs."

A Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that information about a romantic relationship between a key witness in the McMartin Pre-School molestation trial and a former KABC-TV reporter who broke the story was irrelevant and should not be presented to the jury. At issue was the relationship between newsman Wayne Satz and Kee MacFarlane, director of the child abuse diagnostic center at Children's Institute International.

A federal judge Monday dismissed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that Peggy McMartin Buckey filed against the county, the city of Manhattan Beach and others immediately after her acquittal on molestation charges in the McMartin Pre-School case earlier this year. The suit alleged a violation of Buckey's civil rights, but U.S. District Judge Richard A. Gadbois Jr., in dismissing the case, said such a claim was "just not going to fly."

The key defense attorney in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case charged Friday that therapists at Children's Institute International failed to report hundreds of cases of suspected child abuse promptly, as required by law, and that prosecutors in the district attorney's office conspired with them to cover up the delay.

Peggy McMartin Buckey, acquitted of molestation charges in the McMartin Pre-School case, filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit Friday, alleging that her civil rights were violated by the county, the City of Manhattan Beach and others. "If there are . . .

The article (Opinion, Feb. 2), "The McMartin Case: Is Reiner Right?", by William J. Genego, an associate clinical professor of law at USC Law Center, reminded me of the old saying, "The Buck Stops Here." Well, Ira Reiner stopped it, much to his credit, after Judge Aviva Bobb took the easy way out and passed the buck to Reiner. As Genego said, "No one can dispute that it would have been much easier and publicly popular for Reiner simply to proceed to trial against all seven defendants."

Despite the key role played by videotaped interviews with alleged child victims in the first McMartin Pre-School trial, the social worker responsible for those interviews spent only two days on the witness stand at the retrial of defendant Ray Buckey. Kee MacFarlane (Elias) of Children's Institute International, a Los Angeles child-abuse diagnostic and treatment center, was called by the prosecution the first time around two years ago and grilled for five weeks.