This documentary was fascinating and very sad. A family in Great Neck, Long Island is torn apart by accusations of child sexual abuse in the home of Arnold Friedman, a local teacher who held computer classes in his basement and was caught in a sting receiving child porn from the Netherlands. It's directed by Andrew Jarecki who heard about the story when the Friedman's oldest son, who worked as a clown, came to entertain at Jarecki's kid's birthday party and told the director what was going on. Both the father and his youngest son went to prison. Outside of the fact that Arnold Friedman was guilty of receiving child porn through the mail, you're kinda left wondering if all of it, or even some of it, was true.
The documentary is total bullshit and the offenders were guilty. The documentary film maker pushed a narrative that was rejected on appeal more than once.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 14, 2025 10:26 PM |
The "offenders" where innocent.
R1 you're crazy.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 14, 2025 10:31 PM |
I believe the father got the magazines but come on . . . getting a bunch of kids naked in the basement and playing "Leapfrog?" Their youngest son was the biggest victim in this thing. One of the best docs ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 14, 2025 11:19 PM |
R3 yeah, it was insane. Zero physical evidence. And several of the kids have recanted their testimony and now say nothing happened
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 15, 2025 2:26 AM |
Right. And they say there were magazines all over the house, and then they show the photos taken the day of the raid and. . . nothing. This family was destroyed. The fact that Jesse took the fall and did 13 years in prison. Horrifying. The whole thing was a little sketchy though. Jesse did nothing to help his case by confessing on Geraldo. Still, Leapfrog? Really? With nobody upstairs hearing or the parents mentioning it?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 15, 2025 3:10 AM |
The story was hysteria but the husband just so happened to be a pedophile.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 15, 2025 3:33 AM |
It’s way more common that you think
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 15, 2025 5:10 AM |
An unsettling film.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 15, 2025 5:13 AM |