Special - Suffer the Children

DateJune 19 1990

Can DescriptionsSpecials X5521 Master Suffer the Children Rec. 6/19/90

AbstractTitle: “Suffer the Children”; with Mike Barnicle; topics of abuse, drugs, malnutrition, AIDS and how they affect children; segment #1: premature baby suffering from drug addiction and talk with mother; Dr. Ira Chasnoff of the Perinatal Research Association on the subject; the problems of crack cocaine; Dr. Barry Zuckerman of the Boston City Hospital on the subject; effects of cocaine on a baby; cut to black; segment #2: Los Angeles babies and children that have suffered from crack cocaine; Dr. Judy Howard of the UCLA Medical Center on the subject; Mary Jones, a teacher at Salvin Special Education School on the subject of educating these children; women who were charged for drug use while pregnant including Pamela Rae Stewart, Brenda Von, Jennifer Johnson and others; DA William O’Malley on the subject of prosecution; Nancy Gertner, a Civil Liberties Attorney, on the subject; Diane Wood, Director of Women Inc., on the subject of her work; cut to black; segment #3: child abuse and neglect; following Bertha Murphy, a social worker for DSS, following up on reports of child abuse and neglect; children suffering from pediatric AIDS; Paul Fitzgerald, Program Director of FACTS in Providence on the subject; cut to black; segment #4: deaths from child abuse; stories of child abuse and death, abuse to mothers from husband, boyfriends and parents; sexual abuse and trauma; cut to black; segment #5: children suffering from malnutrition; Carol Brooks, a nurse practitioner, B.C.H., on the subject; Kathleen Fitzgerald on the subject; Barnicle outro and credits.

OtherCredits; Producer: Kathy Bickimer; Director: Bob Comiskey.