I don’t know too much about the McMartin Ritual Abuse trial, beyond the fact that it allegedly involved Satanic ritual abuse at a daycare center, went on for years, and was finally dismissed. Jennifer Emick pointed out an interesting connection though between this case and the Michael Jackson trial. Apparently they are using the same psychologist who testified in the McMartin case as a witness for the prosecution.

The psychologist brought in to assess the credibility of their accusations turned out to be linked to one of the most disastrous child sex abuse prosecutions conducted in the United States - a case involving a Los Angeles pre-school in which hysteria and professional irresponsibility caused the complaints of one mentally disturbed mother to balloon into a manifestly preposterous, and unsustainable, charge of mass Satanic rituals and other perversions.

If anybody’s got more information on this connecting link, as well as a good source on the McMartin case (seems very difficult to find), I’d appreciate seeing it.