 The case concerned the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, where seven teachers were accused of kidnapping children, flying them in an airplane to another location, and forcing them to engage in group sex as well as forcing them to watch animals being tortured and killed.The case also involved accusations that children had been forced to participate in bizarre religious rituals and used to make child pornography.The case began with a single accusation, made by the mother – who was later found to be a paranoid schizophrenic – of one of the students, but grew rapidly when investigators informed parents of the accusation and began interviewing other students.