1:19:00
and he is now facing the most
heinous charge known to man
1:19:05
and everyone in the world
1:19:09
slowly but surely,
was turning against him.
1:19:17
I don't care about my parents.
1:19:18
I wish it was just my brothers.
1:19:22
Oh, fuck.
1:19:24
I don't care about my mother,
that's for sure.
1:19:27
If my brothers were OK
1:19:28
then my mother could go
to fucking hell.
1:19:31
My father is not going
to survive
1:19:32
if my brother
gets incarcerated.
1:19:36
So
1:19:38
so when the guilty verdict
comes in on Jesse
1:19:43
my father's
gonna kill himself.
1:19:45
Jesse's gonna go to jail
for the rest of his life.
1:19:47
Seth is gonna move west.
1:19:51
Fuck fuck.
1:19:58
I received a telephone call
from Jesse asking to see me
1:20:02
and Jesse told me
that he wanted to plead guilty.
1:20:05
In 1988, there was no way
that a jury in Nassau County
1:20:10
who had been reading
the newspaper headlines
1:20:12
in "Newsday" for over a year
1:20:14
those people were never
going to listen
1:20:16
to anything
the defense had to say
1:20:19
and I was absolutely
terrified
1:20:21
of going to prison
for 100 years.
1:20:24
Jesse had always
maintained his innocence.
1:20:27
I don't work out deals
for people who are innocent.
1:20:30
And my first reaction was,
"I'm not gonna do it.
1:20:34
You're not guilty,
you're not pleading guilty. "
1:20:37
And at that point,
he told me that
1:20:40
"I have something to tell you. "
1:20:43
And with tears rolling down
his eyes, literally
1:20:47
he told me that he was abused by
his father growing up
1:20:53
and that while he never enjoyed
the sexual part of that
1:20:57
he did enjoy the attention
his father gave him
1:20:59
and being with his father