1:00:00
And there's
uncontrollable tears
1:00:02
and he picked up a chair.
1:00:03
I remember he threw a chair.
1:00:05
He was just screaming about how
he wasn't gonna plead guilty.
1:00:07
He didn't do anything,
he's not gonna plead guilty.
1:00:09
And he was furious
at my mother
1:00:11
and he was
just freaking out.
1:00:16
And I remember very clearly
1:00:19
sitting down with my father
in the corner.
1:00:22
My mother's over there,
brothers are over here.
1:00:24
I'm talking to
my father privately
1:00:26
and he asked me
what he should do.
1:00:31
And I could have said
to my father
1:00:35
"I want you just
to walk out of here
1:00:36
and go to trial
and not plead guilty. "
1:00:40
Instead, I remember
very clearly saying to him
1:00:45
I wanted him
to make the decision.
1:00:50
And I remember feeling like
a really young kid.
1:00:53
Kind of looking up
to my Dad and saying
1:00:55
"Dad, I," you know
"I want you to be my Daddy. "
1:01:00
And I would have been really,
really proud of him
1:01:01
if he had just
stood up and said
1:01:03
"Elaine,
I'm not pleading guilty.
1:01:04
We're going to trial. "
1:01:08
But that's not what happened.
1:01:12
Former New York City
schoolteacher Arnold Friedman
1:01:14
had nothing to say
when he left
1:01:16
the Nassau County Courthouse
in Mineola
1:01:18
but inside he pleaded guilty to
more then 40 counts of sodomy
1:01:22
sexual abuse, and endangering
the welfare of a child.
1:01:26
Attempted sexual abuse
in the first degree
1:01:27
an "E" felony, two counts
1:01:30
and endangering the welfare
of a child
1:01:32
a class "A" misdemeanor,
one count
1:01:34
in full satisfaction
of this indictment?
1:01:36
Yes.
1:01:37
My mother manipulated him.
1:01:38
My mother is crazy
1:01:39
and my mother has control
over my father.
1:01:41
Some relationships have that
1:01:42
where the woman
controls the man.
1:01:44
It's called being pussy whipped.
1:01:46
My father and my mother
1:01:47
are not the only
two people in the world
1:01:48
who have that relationship.
1:01:49
My father and mother
had that relationship.
1:01:51
My mother and the lawyers said,
"Take the plea. "
1:01:53
They took the plea.
1:01:55
I sat there in disbelief.
1:01:57
Is this my brother?
1:01:59
My brother?