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Pedophilia and "Repressed" Memory on Long Island

By AAN Staff
may 21, 2003  01:53 pm
Pedophilia and "Repressed" Memory on Long Island
Arnold Friedman, the subject of Andrew Jarecki’s award-winning documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," was a pedophile, but did he molest children? Friend of the family Debbie Nathan revisits the case and explores the nature of pedophilia and memory. She takes us inside the family through son David, a/k/a Silly Billy, the city's most famous children's birthday party clown. Silly Billy has been featured in fluffy articles and numbers celebrities like Susan Sarandon among his clients. "But there are things about his family's past that are not fluffy at all," Nathan writes.
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