Capturing the Friedmans
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and I was very confused
and very angry about this,

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thinking, well,
why are these people

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going around
telling my parents

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that all kinds of
things have happened

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when I have simply no
recollection of anything?

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Children want
to please very often.

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They want to give you
the answers that you want.

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Adults do that as well.
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So you have to be
very mindful of the fact

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that when you're
interviewing a child

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if the child starts
to answer questions

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your responses should be
somewhat in the framework of

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"And then what happened?"
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Or, "What happened next?"
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Or, "What do you remember then?"
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As opposed to
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"He did this to you,
didn't he?"

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Or "She did this to you,
didn't she?"

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That's a very,
very dangerous type

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of interview process to use.
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If you talk to
a lot of children

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you don't give them
an option, really.

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You just, you be
pretty honest with them.

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You have to tell them
pretty honestly that

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"We know you went
to Mr. Friedman's class.

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We know how many times
you've been to the class. "

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You know, we go through
the whole routine.

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"We know that there
was a good chance

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that he touched you
or Jesse touched you

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or somebody in that family
touched you

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in a very inappropriate way. "
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And I listened
to them talking to him

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and it got to a point
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where it wasn't
asking him what happened.

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It was more of them
telling him what happened

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and that when they didn't
like what he said

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they kept repeating to him
that they know what happened

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and that he should tell.
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I believe that I remember saying
that I saw Jesse, like

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chase after a kid or hit a kid
or something like that

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and that's what I testified to
to the grand jury.

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And I remember saying
that because I felt

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and I feel like
when I said that

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that ended the questioning.
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And so that might
have meant that

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you could infer maybe
that they were asking me

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a lot of questions,
trying to get something

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and I just wanted
to give them something.

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I mean I don't want to be

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