![]() They reported that teachers had flown through the air "like witches," taken them into underground tunnels and traveled with them in hot air balloons. The preschool "witnesses" and "victims"-all 360 of them-were encouraged to "pretend" by "expert investigators" in order to "remember" what had "happened" to them. ![]() ![]() Such imperfect, coached, and false memories were spectacularly on display during the McMartin Preschool Trials of 1987 to 1990. In search of an answer, some news analysts and psychologically-oriented bloggers have focused on the fascinating ways in which memory works-and doesn't-to imperfectly "record" what happened in the past, as well to record suggestions of what may not have happened. "How can I be falsely accused of something and lose everything-my home, my children, my job?" "How can this happen?" accused child molester and former kindergarten teacher Tonya Craft, recently acquitted on 22 charges, asked in a recent national news interview.
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