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Revisiting the Friedmans Lays Doubts to Rest by Alvin Bessent 9/2/03 "Arnold Friedman was a pedophile. He traded kiddie porn with undercover postal inspectors. As a teen, he had sex with his younger brother. As an adult, he had sex with other young boys on Long Island. And if what Jesse said in court and to me in a prison visiting room in 1989 can be believed, Arnold abused him, too. "I guess it mostly started with my father trying to love me," Jesse said back then. The Friedmans who are revealed in the amazing home videos that form the backbone of the film were clearly, as Jesse said in 1989, "an awfully peculiar family." So what are the odds that Arnold Friedman had hundreds of boys of just the age he liked in his home for computer classes on Saturday afternoons for six years and never once indulged his predilections? Or that Ross Goldstein, who wasn't in the film, would plead guilty to sodomy and implicate his friend Jesse if nothing happened? Slim and none, I'd say." http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpqbes023436710sep02,0,6051109.story
FRINGE ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION ATTEMPTS TO DERAIL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 8/2/02 - "Dear Conference Co-Sponsors, Collaborators, Planning Committee Members, & Others, As you may have heard by now, or possibly even received a letter, there is an organized effort to shut down our conference by urging co-sponsors, collaborators, and others to withdraw support and not attend the 7th International Conference on Family Violence in September. The letter campaign focused on two of the 150 sessions to be presented at the conference. It is spear-headed by a specific organization (the FMSF), mostly composed of those accused of abusing their own children, whom believe there is no such thing as repressed memories of childhood abuse, that there is an epidemic of "false memories" by those who report being abused in their childhood (hence their name, the "False Memory Syndrome Foundation"), that dissociation does not exist, and that most psychotherapy techniques should be eliminated. We have dealt with exposing the myth of this "syndrome" for many years, and there are excellent books and articles showing the fallacy of their arguments...The program includes...over 150 presentations), including the two dealing with issues involved in ritualistic abuse. The letter states that "ritual abuse" does not occur (along with other misinformation), and that the credibility of this conference should be questioned because two such presentations are listed. The fact is that there are victims of ritualistic abuse, and that such forms of maltreatment are recognized by mental health and law enforcement. Ritualistic abuse happens when perpetrators behave in a pattern of repeated abusive behaviors that are particularly organized and exploitive of children; this may occur among child pornographers or with some religious groups and "cults."" Robert Geffner, Ph.D, 6160 Cornerstone Court East, San Diego, Ca 92121, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://www.fvsai.org/FVSAI_rebuttal.htm
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