Andrew Jarecki

Andrew Jarecki

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Andrew Jarecki Concealed Evidence, Says Psychotherapy Network

Katy Butler from Psychotherapy Networker, compares “Capturing the Friedmans” to the book Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders,  written by clinical psychologist Dr. Anna Salter.

Butler analyses Dr. Salter’s findings and takes a deeper look at the production of Andrew Jarecki’s film.

Butler says Andrew Jarecki had eagerness to manipulate viewers to empathize with the Friedman’s. She notes that  Jarecki’s film is shot from a liberal, empathic viewpoint and that Jarecki stacked the deck in his favor in order to mask significant evidence of the Friedman’s guilt.

"This is a struggle that Jarecki himself didn’t master.  In his eagerness to make his viewers empathize with the Friedmans’ humanity, he stacked the deck to conceal significant evidence of their guilt. He filmed one high school buddy vouching for Jesse. But he didn’t mention–perhaps because it would have damaged the movie’s dramatic uncertainty–19-year-old Ross Goldstein, a schoolmate of Jesse’s who helped out at the computer class and admitted that he, too, had participated in sexually abusing some of the younger boys.

Nor did Jarecki include footage of a Geraldo! program in which Jesse, by phone from prison, pled for a reduced sentence and described his own prior sexual abuse by his father. Jarecki has said in interviews that Goldstein didn’t want to be included and that he couldn’t obtain the Geraldo! tape."

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