I can completely see where the other contributors feel the need to stand up for the "wrongly" accused child molester and I did at first but at the end when the little girl goes into the trauma room to check on the guy he asks her personal questions and tells her that they have to keep their chatroom conversations secret and touches her. If he was normal why keep their relationship a secret?
I can understand why Neela doesn't trust her intern especially since he outright lied about there not being blood in her stool. And then he tells the family what he did or more exactly didn't do...opening up the hospital and doctors to malpractice.
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Age of Innocence (#15.8)
ComedyFan201029 June 2015
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Really disliked the child molester story. Nothing this guy did makes him look guilty. They just did it by joining it with Simon's tear jerking and embarrassing speech. I don't even fee bad for him after this. Being molested doesn't make him an expert on who is guilty, actually it makes him more likely to be wrong because of persona bias and not using rationality but emotional issues that he has. The guy was pronounced not guilty, he did nothing wrong in the episode and we should look at him as a bad guy? Nah, I think Simon is disgusting and his brother in law should be in jail.
I just liked how Dubenko talked to Neela. Exactly, who does she think she is? They did everything to make her be a good surgeon and she neither want to return it to the medical community and has too high of an opinion about herself believing that she never caused a problem. Dubenko rules!
I just liked how Dubenko talked to Neela. Exactly, who does she think she is? They did everything to make her be a good surgeon and she neither want to return it to the medical community and has too high of an opinion about herself believing that she never caused a problem. Dubenko rules!
Horrible episode
mhk7622 October 2011
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Sorry about the rant, but child sexual abuse was the main point of the episode:
Otherwise OK episode turned horribly bad at the end. Why? Because it promoted the horrible sentiment of guilty by suspicion. By making suggestions that the teacher really was a child molester, it approved everything that happened to him -- and his wife --, EVEN IF there were ONLY SOUSPICION of wrong doing.
Yes, child molestation is a horrible problem, but it does not go away by suspecting all the men who talk kindly to children. "They appear to be nice, Archie". If that is suggested guideline for "detecting" possible child molesters, we are in trouble. Apparently only rude and distant men are allowed, and kindness is left to women. That kind of society creates only cold and distant people.
Otherwise OK episode turned horribly bad at the end. Why? Because it promoted the horrible sentiment of guilty by suspicion. By making suggestions that the teacher really was a child molester, it approved everything that happened to him -- and his wife --, EVEN IF there were ONLY SOUSPICION of wrong doing.
Yes, child molestation is a horrible problem, but it does not go away by suspecting all the men who talk kindly to children. "They appear to be nice, Archie". If that is suggested guideline for "detecting" possible child molesters, we are in trouble. Apparently only rude and distant men are allowed, and kindness is left to women. That kind of society creates only cold and distant people.
No smoke without fire?
srhope-3474619 August 2022
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As others commented, this episode was clearly trying to demonstrate that any man accused of child sexual abuse, even after a jury finds him not guilty, must in fact be guilty and thus needs to have his house burned down and be severely beaten in the ER. After the poignancy of the previous episode, this was a shockingly badly written slice of ER.
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