That all started to change on August 12, 1983 when Judy Johnson called police to report that her two-and-one-half-year-old son had reported being molested by Ray Buckey, Peggy Buckey's 25-year-old son. Detective Jane Hoag of the Manhattan Beach Police Department investigated the call. She interviewed Johnson's son and called 12 other McMartin parents referred to by Johnson; the boy was unable to pick out Ray from class photos and none of the other parents had reason to believe that their children had been sexually abused.⁶ Medical examinations of the boy also failed to discover evidence of sexual abuse.⁷ Several searches conducted by Hoag and other officers resulted in the confiscation of normal household items including a rubber duck, a graduation gown (later unconvincingly described by the prosecution as evidence of satanism) and some photos cut out of Playboy magazine.⁸ Despite the weak evidence, Hoag arrested Buckey on September 7, 1983. However, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office told Hoag she needed to gather more evidence and declined to prosecute.⁹
 

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