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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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say I'm a perjurer
or anything

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but I did not observe
anything like that happening.

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What I do remember is
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the detectives putting me under
a lot of pressure to speak up.

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And at some point,
I kind of broke down.

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I started crying.
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And when I started
to tell them things

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I was telling myself
that it's not true.

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I was telling myself,
"Just say this to them

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in order to get them
off your back. "

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I came across a document
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regarding a group of children
from the Friedman case

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who were in therapy
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and it stated
that many of them

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had absolutely no recollection
of the abuse

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and there was some discussion
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about whether hypnosis
would be a good idea now,

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exactly what you're not
supposed to do.

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It was the kind of therapy
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that had a really good chance
of messing up kids' memories

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and implanting false memories.
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My parents put me
in therapy right away.


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