Something so horrible, I’m sure he tried very hard as a young kid to suppress the torture. Who wouldn’t.
The stories told by the dozens of children in the McMartin case were even more terrible. They were also fictitious.
In the case of these folks, when is the first time they told somebody about the events? Had they been receiving counseling involving memory regression just prior to that? Child abuse is a real and horrible crime, but the more fantastic stories often are just that, fantasies.