WARNING: The end of this film contains graphic imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.
The “Child Molester” presented by The Highway Safety Foundation is a public service announcement intended to scare parents into teaching their children about the dangers of child molesters and how they can teach their children to stay safe. The film was directed and written by Herbert J. Leder, who served as a film professor at Jersey City State College’s Media Arts Department and who wrote and/or directed several features including the 1969 crime pic “The Candy Man”.
A little girl plays hopscotch on a playground. A shadow of a man appears as she draws with chalk. He pours a bag of jelly beans into her hands. Her friend joins them for some jelly beans. A third little girl appears and says she has to go home. He leads both girls to his car. A woman on a bench watches them get into his car. She shakes her head in worry then in acceptance (1:50). A woman calls her friend to see if her daughter is there. Montage of the normal places her daughter could be. The little girl who didn’t get into the man’s car is looking at a doll in a store window. Two dolls are poised for a tea party. A rabbit jumps out of a baby stroller (4:15). The man pulls his car onto a remote patch of grass. He grabs one girl by the arm while the other girl jumps out of the car and runs away. He chases the girl with the other girl in tow. They run through a wooded area. The girl breaks free from him and runs while the other girl hides behind a tree. Two cops walk into a brick house. They take statements from both sets of parents. A woman in a sleep cap describes her daughter (6:45). The two cops cruise the streets. The woman from the bench drinks tea in her living room. She answers her phone and hears of the missing girls. She peers across the street at the cop car. She runs across the street. The third girl is shown a bag of jelly beans by her mother in their kitchen. The man continues to look for the girls in the woods. The little girl cowards and screams as he approaches. The parents cry at the police station. The missing little girl’s mother recollects memories of her daughter: picking up her baby sibling, watching a chick hatch and two newlyweds getting into a car (12:03). They stand on the sidewalk as a man and a young girl are escorted past them by cops. Close up of her crying. The third girl’s family plays croquet. The family walks down the street while a man on a bench stares. Two men light a cigarette. A girl jumps rope while a man pulls up next to her in a car. The man approaches the girl. A family crosses the street. A man in a suit grabs the arm of a girl and she pulls away. A man puts his hand on the thigh of a young boy in a theatre (15:50). The boy gets up and tells the usher. A man offers a boy money and he refuses. A man in a car asks a girl for directions. A man in a pencil tie and sunglasses approaches a boy outside of his school. The teacher interrupts them. A man finishes a bottle of booze in an alley. He grabs a little boy. A woman gestures to a drawing of a fetus in the womb on a chalk board (17:58). A boy nods. Parents tuck their children into bed. A cop escorts a crying couple out of their house. A girl lies face down in what looks like snow. Very graphic police footage of murdered children. A dirty shoe floats down a river.
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