September 6, 2008
Complete coverage: The Friedmans
Film Revives Great Neck Controversy
It's the day before Thanksgiving 1987. The Friedmans are looking forward to a holiday together when police shatter the apparent peace of Great Neck's Piccadilly Road - conducting a raid that ultimately would put Arnold Friedman and his youngest of three sons, Jesse, then 19, behind bars.
Toward An Elusive Truth
Three years ago, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, having spent a successful decade in the business world, decided to return to movies with a documentary about children's party clowns. "I thought it would be fun to follow one of these people into their lives," he recalled recently. "I was really trying to make a pretty light film."
The Secret Life Of Arnold Friedman
IN THE SPRING of 1986, about 100 people - most of them former students of the guest of honor - crowded a hot, second-floor television studio at Bayside High School in Queens to honor a science teacher named Arnold Friedman.
Teen Gets 6-18 Years For Child Sex Abuse
Jesse Friedman, who admitted sexually abusing children during computer classes taught by his father in their Great Neck home, was sentenced yesterday to 6 to 18 years in prison, despite an impassioned defense plea that he was a victim of his father's abuse.
Boys' Sex Abuse Admitted
A Great Neck teenager accused of sexually abusing boys who attended computer classes given by his father in their home pleaded guilty yesterday to 25 counts of sexual abuse in exchange for a promise of 6 to 18 years in prison.
Teen Faces 37 New Sex Charges
A Great Neck teenager already charged with molesting young male students at his father's private computer school was rearrested yesterday on 37 new counts of sodomy and other forms of sexual abuse, Nassau police said.
Teacher Sentenced In Sodomy
A Long Island man who admitted sodomizing or sexually assaulting 13 boys who came to his Great Neck home for computer courses was sentenced yesterday to up to 30 years in prison.
Jesse Friedman gets day in court to clear sex crimes
More than 18 years after he pleaded guilty to child sex crimes he now says he didn't commit, Jesse Friedman says he has a glimmer of hope in his quest to clear his name.
Teacher Guilty of Sex Crimes
Computer teacher Arnold Friedman admitted yesterday that he sodomized or otherwise sexually assaulted numerous young boys who were students in his Great Neck home and pleaded guilty to 42 counts of various forms of sexual abuse.
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