LOS ANGELES : Judge Orders Back Pay for McMartin Defendant
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A teacher acquitted of charges in the McMartin preschool molestation trial should receive back pay with interest for the time she was on compulsory leave to defend herself, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Robert O’Brien said the Anaheim Union High School District should pay $183,000 to Peggy Ann Buckey for time she was out of work. The district, following a state law regarding teachers accused of a morals charge, had placed Buckey on compulsory leave from March, 1984, to February, 1989, without pay.
Buckey returned to teaching at an Anaheim high school in March, 1989, said her attorney John Wagner. The decision ends litigation between Buckey and the school district.
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