At the core of the recent McMartin expose \u201cThey Must Be Monsters: A Modern-Day Witch Hunt<\/a>\u201d is the authors\u2019 meticulous tracing of how the fantasies of one paranoid schizophrenic mother, Judy Johnson, fostered the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history.<\/p>\n I asked Haddad what lay behind Summit\u2019s deceit.<\/p>\n \u201cI suspect he was trying to cover up that he had given false testimony under oath,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019d testified that they \u2018first met\u2019 in February 1984 \u2013 but Judy\u2019s own calendars revealed a relationship that went back a year earlier. He may have had an influence on her before she ever even dropped her son off at McMartin.<\/p>\n \u201cSo when he looked over her notes, that only we had possession of, he saw that we could prove he\u2019d lied. He got really shaky….\u201d<\/p>\n If he had concerns about his professional reputation, Summit surely had much to be shaky about, including his role in whipping up panic<\/a> among parents and his insistence that McMartin Preschool sat above a network of abuse-enabling secret tunnels<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Feb. 8, 2019 Second of two parts At the core of the recent McMartin expose \u201cThey Must Be Monsters: A Modern-Day Witch Hunt\u201d is the authors\u2019 meticulous tracing of how the fantasies of one paranoid schizophrenic mother, Judy Johnson, fostered the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history. But Johnson did not act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190208Monsters200.jpg\")
But Johnson did not act alone. Toward the end of the book Matthew LeRoy and Deric Haddad recall interviewing psychiatrist Roland Summit in his office and confronting him with evidence that \u2013 contrary to his earlier denials — he had been deeply involved not only with supporting Johnson\u2019s bizarre accusations but also with fostering them.<\/p>\n![\"LRDCC20\"](\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\")
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