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Film undermines efforts to fight child abuse.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-FEB-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Film undermines efforts to fight child abuse.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Jennifer Freyd For The Register-Guard

We are in serious denial, as a culture, about child abuse and its brutal costs - both to our youth and to our nation. The latest sign of our collective denial is the nomination of a seriously flawed film for an Oscar.

In the late 1980s a judge in New York state found three people guilty of multiple counts of child abuse. The details, as always, are sordid.

The perpetrators pretended to be teaching computer literacy to young boys in their basement. In fact, they were showing them pornography and inducing them to commit various sexual acts....

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