:16:01
And I said, "Don't worry about
it. It's just me and Jesse. "
:16:03
And they said,
"Well, we want Jesse.
:16:05
We need Jesse
in the house now. "
:16:07
Of course, we thought,
you know,
:16:11
we didn't know why that was.
:16:13
As we conducted more interviews
of the children,
:16:17
Jesse's name started to pop up.
:16:19
And Jesse was there.
:16:20
What did Jesse do?
:16:21
And then eventually we were
able to ascertain
:16:24
that Jesse's role was not one
of, you know, helping his dad
:16:28
conduct the computer class,
:16:29
but basically abusing
the children himself.
:16:32
We didn't have children
telling us
:16:34
that Arnold had
slapped them around.
:16:36
But quite a number of the kids
reported incidents
:16:39
of being slapped and having
their hair pulled
:16:42
or their arms twisted by Jesse.
:16:44
He was, by far,
the more violent one.
:16:47
All these policemen
said that Jesse
:16:50
was some kind of aggressor.
:16:51
That even his father
was cowering,
:16:54
and Jesse was this sexual,
molesting tyrant.
:16:58
I challenge anyone
to find anyone
:17:01
who Jesse had even teased
as a child or called a name.
:17:06
Jesse was not an angry person.
:17:08
He was not an upset person.
:17:11
So we ended up spending
a lot of time together.
:17:13
I was over his house 3 days
a week, 4 days a week.
:17:17
And as far as I know him,
none of this ever happened,
:17:22
not on my watch.
:17:25
Eighteen-year-old Jesse Friedman
also stands accused
:17:27
of sex abuse and using a child
in a sexual performance.
:17:33
The only thought that I just
kept having the whole night
:17:35
was, "We're gonna get bailed out
and then we'll go home
:17:37
and we'll figure out
what's going on,
:17:39
and the lawyers will
take care of this,
:17:40
and they'll straighten
this out. "
:17:41
Because it was still
just a matter of,
:17:43
"This is a big
misunderstanding. "
:17:47
But when the bail was set
at a million dollars,
:17:50
instead of going out
with Mom and David
:17:52
like we were supposed to,
we went back the other way.
:17:57
And that was the moment when
:17:59
there was this whole new sense
that the problem was