Capturing the Friedman's



Capturing the Friedmans

Introduction

Capturing the friedmans is an Oscar nominated documentary which was originally set out to make a film about children clowns. The story is about a family where David had been caught along with his two younger brothers, in one of the most shocking cases of child molestation which came up to the US courts. The documentary shows Arnold, the father of three who was a high school teacher and a pianist who had been found to possess a variety of adult magazine consisting of child pornography. Arnold conducted computer classes at home with his son Jessie assisting him. The police suspected Arnold's act and after finding porn material at home, they came to a conclusion that a man with these sorts of fetish and strange hobbies would not be a good computer teacher. Without any physical evidence the police questioned the workshop students and several of them reported of having been abused by the teacher and his youngest son.

Discussion

An acclaimed and reputed teacher among students or the after school computer class teacher who taught from his home until a barrage of officers raided his home tipped off to his participation in the illicit mailing and receiving of porn material which portrayed children involved in sexual acts and allegedly recovered a large collection of illicit material related to child pornography which resulted in Arnold's arrest (The Los Angeles Tim, 2003).

The Friedmans were a happy family which allegedly blew up when the father and one of his sons were accused of pedophilia. The media jumped on the prey like hungry vultures; police pressured witnesses to file the corresponding charges, the judicial system behaved like a vigilante and its neighbors entered the cloth with the momentum.

When one begins to sympathize with the poor Friedman, the author takes us to ...