Jurors in Buckey Retrial to Continue Deliberating
Jurors in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case ended their first week of deliberations Friday without reaching verdicts in the retrial of Ray Buckey.
The Superior Court jury of seven women and five men went home for the weekend after completing their fifth day of deliberations.
The jurors are not being sequestered but were once again advised by Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg to avoid exposure to any media coverage of the retrial.
Buckey, 32, is being retried on eight molestation charges stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of three girls at the now-closed Virginia McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach from 1979 until 1983. He testified that he is innocent of the charges and has never molested any child.
At the end of his first trial, Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 63, were acquitted in January of 52 other molestation counts. The first jury deadlocked on the eight charges on which Buckey was retried.
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