Capturing the Friedmans
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saying, "Look at me.
I'm an asshole. "

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They're harassing my father
for no reason at all.

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If I had had some kind of
Arabian sand scarf

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I would have wrapped
that around my face

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and been Lawrence of Arabia.
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Maybe that
would have been better.

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But I took out underwear,
and I put it on my head

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because I didn't want
to be on camera.

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The first arrested
was Arnold Friedman,

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a retired schoolteacher who was
charged with sodomizing boys

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aged 8 to 11.
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The charges are that, while
running a computer school,

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Arnold Friedman and his son
engaged in various forms

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of sexual abuse
against minor children.

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Jesse pulls up coming
home from school.

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His friends dump him
out of the car.

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David sort of grabbed me,
and we were sitting

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a couple of houses down,
sort of on the sidewalk.

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And he was saying
something to me.

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And then one of the TV
cameras came over,

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so we kind of ran
to the backyard.

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And we went behind the house.
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And we were in the backyard
of our house.

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And the cops came back, and they
said, "What's going on here?"

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And I said, "Don't worry about
it. It's just me and Jesse. "

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And they said,
"Well, we want Jesse.

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We need Jesse
in the house now. "

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Of course, we thought,
you know,

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we didn't know why that was.
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As we conducted more interviews
of the children,

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Jesse's name started to pop up.
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And Jesse was there.
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What did Jesse do?
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And then eventually we were
able to ascertain

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that Jesse's role was not one
of, you know, helping his dad

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conduct the computer class,
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but basically abusing
the children himself.

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We didn't have children
telling us

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that Arnold had
slapped them around.

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But quite a number of the kids
reported incidents

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of being slapped and having
their hair pulled

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or their arms twisted by Jesse.
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He was, by far,
the more violent one.

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All these policemen
said that Jesse

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was some kind of aggressor.
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That even his father
was cowering,

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and Jesse was this sexual,
molesting tyrant.

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I challenge anyone
to find anyone


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