:33:04
I think the most
overwhelming thing was
:33:06
the enormous amount
of child pornography.
:33:09
You would just have to walk
into the living room,
:33:11
and it'd be piled
around the piano.
:33:13
There were literally foot-high
stacks of pornography,
:33:17
in plain view,
all around the house.
:33:21
But photos taken
during the search
:33:23
showed nothing of the kind.
:33:30
But as far as the families were
concerned, I don't want to
:33:32
use the word that they were
competitive with each other.
:33:34
I don't know if it's
to that extent.
:33:37
You know, sometimes it'd be some
idle conversation about,
:33:39
you know, another boy, you know,
"He was sodomized 5 times,
:33:42
but my son was sodomized
6 times," you know,
:33:45
as if that meant something in
the overall scheme of things.
:33:48
There's a whole community
atmosphere that gets created
:33:50
in a mass-abuse case
like this,
:33:52
where the families are
talking to each other,
:33:55
they're going to
community meetings,
:33:56
or they're calling on
the phone all the time.
:33:58
They're seeing each other
in group therapy.
:34:00
And there is definitely
an element when a community
:34:03
defines itself as
a victimized community,
:34:05
that if you're not victimized
:34:07
you don't fit into
that community.
:34:09
The families that had
their child molested
:34:12
or allegedly molested
became very involved
:34:15
and took a greater part
of their life at that point.
:34:20
I appreciated their call
in the beginning
:34:21
telling me what happened.
:34:23
And then when I told them
that we looked into it
:34:25
and my wife and I both felt that
nothing happened to our son,
:34:29
it got to be a little pushy
situation where they told us
:34:32
that we were in denial, and it
absolutely happened to our son.