Capturing the Friedmans
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I'm still here.
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Yeah.
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I may not be here
very much longer

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but I'm still here.
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That's disturbed.
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The sentence:
10 to 30 years.

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The crime:
Sodomizing young boys.

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Defendant Arnold Friedman
had pleaded guilty

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to sexually abusing
more than a dozen youngsters,

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but this does not end
the Friedman case.

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There are still numerous sodomy
and sex abuse charges

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pending against Arnold's son,
Jesse Friedman.

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I mean we could try this case
in the media.

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Who's gonna, who's gonna buy
that I sodomized boys?

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Yeah, I agree with you.
I agree with you.

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No, I really
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Well, I don't think
we have to try

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well, all I want to do
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We didn't make a deal
with Arnold Friedman

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to spare his son.
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So his son is facing
a multiple count indictment

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he's facing a considerable
amount of jail time

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and now he's confronted
with a situation

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where Long Island knows
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that his father admitted
his guilt

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and there's a reasonable
human expectation

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of some people that,
you know

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where there's smoke,
there's fire.

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And if he did it,
maybe his son did it.

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We know he was
in the same class

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and he was helping his father.
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So I think that
was a difficult thing

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for Jesse to
have to overcome.

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I always believed Jesse.
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How could this possibly
go on for 4 years

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children repeatedly sodomized
and sexually abused

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with brutality
if you believe the police.

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And then their parents come
to pick them up


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