Frontline - Season 17 Episode 7 : The Child Terror
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Frontline - Season 17 Episode 7 : The Child Terror

In "The Child Terror," FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer travels to Dade County, Florida to explore the impassioned roots and controversial consequences of the nation's 15-year legal battle against child sexual abuse. During the 1980s, Miami became ground zero in the crusade to prosecute child molesters. Many high-profile cases were prosecuted by the office of then-chief prosecutor Janet Reno who pioneered a national effort to bring child molesters to justice. Now, however, some of these cases are unraveling. In this report, FRONTLINE deconstructs two of the them, probing what went wrong.

  • Released: 1983-01-17
  • Runtime: 00:55:14 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary, News
  • Network: PBS
  • Stars: Will Lyman

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