European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 21. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 sex school operator sues after acquittal says Faith got her through ordeal los Angeles m l Peggy Mcfanin Hucky. Acquitted in the Mcmart pc school molestation Case said Friday that she would pursue a Federal civil lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution despite death threats o her family mrs. Buccy. Addressing a packed news conference. Said she at first hesitated to become involved in further litigation. I said to inn lawyer. Is it Worth going in court about .1 i m tired of going to court. I m tired of enduring what i be had to endure " but she said those responsible for ruining her life should he held accountable. Buccy and her son. Raymond won acquittal of 32felony charges of child molestation. On thursday jurors in the nation s longest and costliest criminal trial deadlocked on 1 2 other sex abuse counts against the son and a single conspiracy count against him and his 63 year old Mother. Superior court judge William Pounders declared a mistrial on the 1 2 counts and dismissed the deadlocked conspiracy charge against mrs. Buccy. He set a Jani hearing to determine whether the 1 3 unresolved counts would be dismissed against her son. Raymond Buckey. 31, who Speni nearly five years in jail before making bail and his Mother who was jailed for almost two years cried As they heard the verdicts. If it can happen to seven innocent people it can happen to you.  mrs. Buccy said. If it had no been in my Faith in cod. I would t be Here  her son avoided reporters after the verdict. Initially five other teachers including mrs. Hucky smother and daughter were charged. The trial Cost about $15 million and lasted nearly three years. The lawsuit filed Friday names As defendants los Angeles county the City of Manhattan Beach former District attorney Robert Pilibosian. Children s Institute International and therapist acc Mcfarlane. As Well As capital ones Abc inc. And its former reporter Wayne sat. It contends that All defendants joined in a conspiracy to have the Mcmann defendants indicted. The lawsuit seeks general damages of is million and unspecified special damages. Mrs. Hucky said that alter verdicts were announced thursday a Parent of a former Mcmartin schoolchild approached mrs. Rick by s husband. Harlys. And threatened to kill him she did not elaborate. She also said that children who attended the once prestigious but nou defunct school trailed her to her car and screamed epithets at her some of the children s parents gasped when the verdicts were announced if it can happen to seven innocent people it can happen to you  Peggy Mcmartin Buckey the anger is beginning to  Mary Mae Cioffi said. We have programs All out the country thai Tell children to run and Tell when somebody hurts them and our children told. Some of them spent 35 Days on the stand and they gel a not guilty it shows that our Justice system needs a res amp for  although they did not testify she added. I know my children were molested. I Hail my daughter sleep be tween my husband and i for a whole year because she was so afraid somebody would come and get her. That they would kill her. Because she  when it came to ligh.1 in 1983. The alleged mass molestation at the family run school in suburban manhat Tan Beach ignited a nationwide wave of worry about child abuse. It produced widespread fear among work ing parents that their children might be at risk at school. Jurors who cleared the pair thursday said children might have been molested. But they said prosecutors in the trial failed to link sexual abuse to the defendants. I tried to believe the  juror Daryl Hui chins  he said inc youngsters had been so con Ami Naiad by parents suggestions and therapists who inter \ in cd them that he could not accept their testimony. T he most important evidence jurors said was video tapes of interviews conducted with alleged victims at Hildren s Institute International a private child abuse treatment Center. The jurors said interviewers used leading questions and coached the children on How the should answer. I believe that the children believed what they were saying was True in the  juror Hrynda Wil Liams said. I could not Tell from watching the tape that the children were telling what actually happened to them or if they were repealing what their parents told  some parents said the judicial system failed. I fear that because of this verdict no child will be seen As a credible witness from now  Man  said. His son. Now 10. Attended the school for 1 year but was t a witness at the trial. Prosecutor Lael Rubin who devoted six years to the Case. Said. We ultimately mint respect the jury s Deci Sion even though i personally disagree with  the Case began in August i "s3 with a complain from Judy Johnson a Mother who reported that her 2 year old child had been molested at the suburban school by a Man called Ray. Police sent letters to Mcmartin parents warning of possible molestation. Soon do ens of parents reported their children had been Vic Limi cd Johnson suffering from alcohol and mental prob lems died at age 44 a few months before the trial began in april 1987. Defense attorneys contended that the Case was largely the result of her increasingly by Arr allegations. Children gave accounts of siame rues and animal tortured to Iri Ghlen Vou Neslers into silence. Testimony at an is month preliminary hearing featured lairs of molestation Al a Church a car Wash and a Market As wella1 naked games Al the school. Juror Julie pc teis said she fell the Case Hail destroyed Many lives. I think everybody  a  she Sau i dim think anybody tame out of this Case a Vav inner " the partially destroyed Headquarters of former panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega comes under the remnant of Noriega regime toppled wrecking Ball Friday morning As Crane workers tear Down the Symbol of the ousted regime s military Potter. Cap. Kurt Edmunson of the army corps of engineers hatches the destruction. The main build Iii in Panama City teas All that remained of Noriega s stronghold. Most of the Complex teas destroyed Dur ing the t a. Masion in december