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The 1989 Friedman prosecution, in which Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse were convicted of multiple charges of sodomy and sexual abuse, said to have taken place during a computer class taught by father and son, is strikingly similar to other mass sex abuse cases of the 1980s.

Communities across the country exploded with outlandish accusations of daycare "sex rings" and multiplevictim child abuse by teachers—among them the McMartin family (preschool teachers accused of engaging in ritual Satanic abuse, including drinking the blood of babies) and Kelly Michaels (a daycare worker accused by 20 children of licking peanut butter from their genitals, shoving assorted objects—including a sword—up their rectums, amputating one boy's penis—never found to be missing—and turning another child into a mouse). These spectacular allegations have since been exposed as utterly false. The convictions lacked physical evidence and relied on children’s testimony obtained by discredited investigative techniques.

Jesse Friedman's own attorney describes the documentary as containing interviews, cut and spliced, and taken out of context. Jesse Friedman spent 13 years in prison for crimes that almost certainly never occurred—and to which he was forced to plead guilty because the hysteria of the moment made a fair trial impossible, adds his attorney. More in the following link:
https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemo...

The film creator, Andrew Jarecki, continues to maintain that if the film had been less evenhanded the audience would not have thought deeply about where the truth lay. However, was something left out? Watch this clip and draw your own conclusions. Share and leave a comment.

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