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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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right after computer class
and not one kid is crying

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not one kid tells
his mother or father

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what happened in class
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not one kid says anything?
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I find that so incredible
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that Jesse's story
that nothing happened

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to me was more believable
than the police version

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of these horrific acts.
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Jesse and I went
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we flew in August of 1988
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all the way
to Madison, Wisconsin

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where we rented a car
and drove 90 miles

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to some town that I couldn't
possibly give you the name of

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to a federal prison.
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Who knew more about this case
then Arnold Friedman?

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He knew more about
it than Jesse.

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I had to wait 40 minutes
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because Arnie was either
playing tennis or golf

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I don't remember what it was.
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I was outraged.
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It was a visiting room.
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Jesse was out in the waiting
room at this point


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