The prosecution of this case had been transferred from the Northampton police to Alan Rubenstein, the Bucks County District Attorney. He ordered a one year, full, intensive police investigation of all of the complaints, in an effort to obtain hard evidence of criminal activity that he could bring to court. Some results were:

	The DA investigators were unable to identify a secret room where some demonic ritual abuse allegedly occurred. The children described the large fireplace in the room. But no fireplace was found in any of the school's rooms. Parents suggested that the fireplace had been removed, but no sign of remodelling was found
	no remains of mutilated animals were found
	every child in the school was questioned; none could corroborate the charges.
	according to one child accuser, the teacher had identifying marks on her body that were not visible when she was clothed. None were found during a medical examination. The parent suggested that the marks had been surgically removed; but no evidence of the removal existed either
	the children were given medical exams to determined if they had been raped or stabbed. No evidence was found.
	the cages turned out to be the metal jungle gym apparatus in the school yard. The children used to play a game in which the boys "locked up" girls in the gym.

James Stilwell, who headed the National Agency Against the Organized Exploitation of Children Inc., studied the evidence. He concluded that a pedophile was indeed abusing children at the day school. His credibility was severely compromised when his expertise was found to be unrelated to child abuse; he was an unemployed plumber.

Lack of physical evidence did not deter other DAs from laying charges in previous cases, like the Fells Acre case of Malden, MA involving the Amirault Family or the McMartin cases of Manhattan Beach, CA involving Peggy & Ray Buckey and Virginia McMartin. There was no physical evidence at Bre ezy Point ₅ to support the children's accusations. If their stories were accurate, then certain evidence would be have to be present - and it was not. But for once, the DA did the right thing. Alan Rubenstein announced that the charges were baseless and that no charges would be laid. He said in a 1997-APR interview, years later, that "I wanted to try the case myself...I was convinced it would be the greatest case in the history of my commonwealth. But there was no evidence at all, as in this [Amirault - Felles Acre] case. I was instead convinced this was the greatest hoax in the history of my Commonwealth...The parents thought I was some victim of Witchcraft...But it was all the product of a shared hysteria." He was quoted in a newspaper article (4): "We proved that none of this ever happened...This wasn't a question of maybe it happened and we just can't prove it. This was conjured up by the hysteria of the parents who bought into this. It never happened."

In a subsequent civil defamation suit, the accusers paid the teacher and school an undisclosed sum.

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