Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)

A TV movie based on a real case in the United States, produced by HBO. The McMartin family used to run a preschool school, which was run by my grandmother. The mother of a child went to the police station to sue McMartin's grandson, one of the school's teachers, for sexually harassing her two-and-a-half-year-old son. The police asked the parents of other students to ask if their children had been sexually harassed in the same way, but there seemed to be no result at first. Later, these parents took their children to a place similar to a children's treatment center, where, induced by the staff, many children said they had received sexual harassment at that school. As a result, the McMartin family, including grandmothers, grandchildren, granddaughters and three other female teachers, were arrested and jailed because it was believed that the children would not make up such a lie. What they did not expect, however, is that although these children will not make up lies, they may tell lies under the inducement of adults. The treatment center is very unprofessional at all, and the process of inducing children is similar to that of inducing confessions. At the beginning, however, everyone was blinded by this alarming case and decided that McMa...