Indictment: The McMartin Trial Quotes

  • Danny Davis: Are you kidding me with those glasses? You look like a child molester. Get rid off them or it's gonna be a short trial.

  • Danny Davis: Look the jury in the eye and answer this question. Have you ever molested a child?

    Ray Buckey: No.

  • Lael Rubin: You draw pubic hair, didn't you?

    Ray Buckey: I drew nipples there too, you see?

  • Danny Davis: They say it ain't over until the fat lady sings. I think she already sung.

  • Virginia McMartin: Put me in jail! I've been in your jail and I know what terrible places they are.

  • Peggy Buckey: I'm not bittered. I was raised to not be bitter.

    [in tears]

    Peggy Buckey: We lost everything. We don't have anything. Momma, we don't have anything.

  • Danny Davis: No physical contact.

  • Grace: Do you understand what these people did? Did to children?

    Danny Davis: Hey, a client's a client.

  • Woman in courtroom: [as the defendants enter the courtroom] Perfect typecasting. They could be Buchenwald guards.

  • Danny Davis: When you're accused of child molesting, everything's a crime.

  • Peggy Buckey: And they don't care that they've ruined our lives. And not just ours -- the parents, the children. How come God couldn't stop it?

    Virginia McMartin: Oh, no. Don't blame God. What happened to us was all the work of people. God wasn't let into it. Who had the time to stop and listen to God? They were all too busy watching television.