A Loving Jewish Family From Great Neck NY.

The father is a Columbia University graduate, and a high school science teacher, the mother runs a day care in her house, David is a 'Party Clown', Seth is a student, and Jesse helps his father teach kids computers.

The Father Likes Porno

It all starts in 1984 when a postal inspector finds a child porn magazine, and decide to keep a close eye on Arnold.

Postal Police Investigate Poppa

In July, 1984, U. S. Customs officials at Kennedy became suspicious of small parcels in plain brown wrappers from Holland. When they decided to open it they found a magazine called Boy Love, graphic pictures of men having sex with children.

A undercover postal inspector wrote to Arnold Friedman and asked if he had "boy lover" material to sell. "I have none to sell but am interested in obtaining," Friedman responded three days later. "Do you know of any sources?"

Investigator Keeps Tabs

The inspector, Stan, wrote back but heard nothing from Friedman for more than a year.

Nov. 3, 1987 ....First Raid

Government officials and Nassau police raided the home and found a foot-high stack of child pornography in the living room.
And there were grimmer discoveries - child-sized dildoes in a cabinet just outside a makeshift classroom. They also found a list of 80 names and phone numbers handwritten in Friedman's tortured, tiny scrawl. Police realized that they had found something that went far beyond pornographic magazines. They intensified the investigation.

Love Den

Arnold Freidman’s office was there – a bathroom, and the room where Jesse slept. A sign on the wall called his domain "Paradise 7." Officials estimate that about 500 youngsters, the great majority of them boys, participated in the classes

Authorities accused Arnold and Jesse Friedman of raping boys, battering them, and threatening them with further assault, even death, if they told.  He said: ~  "Jesse only became involved three or four years ago."

The Routine Used On The Children

Arnold had a cabinet where he kept the computer discs, and he had  porn magazines intermixed with them. Arnold slowly introduced the children to things like "Stroker," in which the player could make a graphic representation of a man masturbate. And "Strip Poker," in which a prone woman figure would shed clothing as the game progressed until she was naked.

 

Arnold's Special Place Or "Talking Sam" in which a male figure would expose his genitals and ask the kids questions about sex.

Others Involved

Along with Arnold and Jesse Friedman the police said they expect to arrest as many as four acquaintances of Jesse Friedman in the burgeoning case. There were at least two adults involved.

Parents Meet On Nov. 24, 1987

Frustrated because no arrests had been made, a group of parents held a meeting and decide on vigilante justice. Police informants attend the meeting, and police officials rush over, promising arrests.
 

Nov. 25, 1987

12 Nassau police officers broke in the front door. They took Arnold Friedman into custody. Mrs. Friedman, soon arrived and frantically tried to stop the police searching her house. Elaine Friedman was also arrested.

Feb., 1988 Grand Jury

Twenty children testified before a Grand Jury, that ultimately returned three indictments in the case. There was suspicion of a 'Sex ring'.

 

Sick Monsters

"There are allegations that, Arnold and Jesse were sodomizing one another, in front of the kids."


 

Jews Threatened Families?

Some of the children who testified before the grand juries received threatening telephone calls warning them not to cooperate with police

Arnold Freidman

Arnold, indicted on 107 counts, would later plead guilty to 42 sex crimes



 

Third Arrest

Ross Goldstein, 18, a friend of Jesse's, would be indicted in Nassau County on a total of 464 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse, using a child in a sexual performance and endangering the welfare of a child.

He implicated Jesse Friedman before a grand jury. He was sentenced on May 3 to two to six years in prison.

Jesse Friedman

Jesse, charged with 239 counts, pleaded guilty to 25 charges, including 17 counts of sodomy and four counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He blamed his Poppa, who he said started abusing him at nine yrs old.
 

Elaine Friedman

The mother was arrested.

David Freidman aka “ Silly Billy “ Was Not Arrested

Seth Freidman Was Not Arrested


 

Every String Imaginable Was Pulled

They stared menacingly at the families, because they were mad they were convicted.

Only Arnold, Jesse, and Ross Goldstien went to prison. Arnold was sent to a country club in Wisconsin, Jesse went to Danamora, and Ross spent six months under protective custody.
 

The Judge Was Abbey Blokand

The parents were incensed at the prosecutors, and Judge, for not getting Arnold's video collection. They felt the Judge protected them in the sentencing, and the prison recommendation phase.

Debbie Nathan - A writer

A Jewish crusader that called it a witch hunt.

 

The sentence and prison

Arnold and Jesse, both,  went to country club prisons (Dannemora and Oxford), which were medical facilities.  Both had to be kept isolated.