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clothes are important.
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There's a lot of
competition in Great Neck.

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Everybody's kid's
a genius and the best,

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and everybody's the best
in this and that,

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and you just want your
kid to be happy

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and to get an array
of experiences.

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And this computer class was
one of those experiences.

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You thought
you were doing right.

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Most of the children
started out explaining

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how Mr. Friedman would try
to test them, I think,

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in my opinion, as to whether
they'd be receptive

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to some of his advances.
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There'd be certain showings
on the computer

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during computer class
of certain material

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that was inappropriate
for children.

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If you were going to be
the first one abused

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on a particular day,
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he would pull up a chair
and sit next to you.

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Maybe it would start with his
arm around your shoulder

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or on your leg and
gradually move it up,

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touching private parts.
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And then over the course of time
we developed a situation

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where we found out that there
was not only sexual touching

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of the genitals, but there
were acts of sodomy,

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oral and anal sodomy,
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that took place during
the course of the class.

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So were the kids abused
in the computer room

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in view of everyone else?
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From what I saw
in my sessions,

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none were raped
out on the floor.

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The kids were raped in Jesse's
room or the bathroom.

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Just to change the subject
for a second,

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there were these sexual
computer games

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that were discussed during
the course of the case.

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We'd basically do
the games where

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there would be naked girls
and everything

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in the computer class.
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But I remember one time I
slipped one of the games out,

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and I brought it home
and everything,

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and I copied it,
and Arnold found out.

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Because of that, I was raped
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by him and Jesse at the same
time, as punishment to that.

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I never did it again.

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