W&C Reconsidered: Virginia McMartin
October 17, 2025
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Episode 285 · October 17, 2025
W&C Reconsidered: Virginia McMartin
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W&C Reconsidered: Virginia McMartin
Summary
Ep 285: Reconsidered: 34 - Virginia McMartin
Original Airdate: 12/01/20
In the 1980s a prominent 76-year-old owner of a family-run preschool was named as the head of a child molestation ring. The accusations eventually extending to her children and even her grandchildren. But was this preschool a front covering the most egregious child abuse scandal in American history or was this woman and her family members the victim of a modern day witch hunt?
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Sources for Today's Episode:
The Daily Best
The NY Times
The McMartin Family Trials on Oxygen
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Produced by James Varga
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