in the summer of 1983, however, johnson became concerned about the condition of her sons anus. one day in july she took matthew to the emergency room and told the doctor that her sons anus was itchy. the doctor wasnt terribly concerned. judy and matthew went home. a month passed. on august 12 johnson called the manhattan beach police. her concerns were the same as in july, except that now she suspected criminal rather than strictly medical causes. she told police detective jane hoag that when she had sent matthew to school the previous morning his anus had been normal, but when she had brought him home at the end of the day it had been red. there was only one male teacher, ray buckey, working at mcmartin. johnson said that matthew had recently begun to play doctor, running around pretending to give people shots or check them for fever, which johnson found very alarming. repeated questioning finally induced matthew to reveal that he had learned this behavior from ray buckey. johnson believed the thermometer had been rays penis. detective hoag advised johnson to take her son to the hospital, and at 8:30 that evening, after examining matthew at the kaiser hospital in harbor city, a doctor filed a suspected child abuse report. over the weekend johnson further questioned her son about what had happened at school, and then on tuesday she called the police to provide detective hoag with two names; johnson said matthew had identified these other children as victims of ray buckey. on wednesday matthew was examined again, this time by two pediatricians at the marion davies childrens clinic at ucla. his examining physicians filed a second suspected child abuse report.   017/03/18/window-into-american-crim inal-justice-system-from-the-daycar e-sexual-abuse-trials-of-the-1980s/
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