shouldn't be swayed by a big star power attorney, defense attorney. you should be still advocating for these girls. these were, you know, young 13, 14, 15-year-old girls here. you know, that's who you should be protecting, not a child molester. >> and just to be clear, these girls, these teenaged girls, they and their parents wanted to go forward, right? >> yes. >> they wanted -- oftentimes in these cases you have extremely reluctant witnesses, for good reasons, ambivalent about it. in these cases the individuals wanted the charges to be pursued. >> there were several women that were very strong about it, and in fact they were calling the prosecutor's office repeatedly, and they weren't getting any callbacks. and so what they did was they hired an attorney, fred edwards to help them communicate with the prosecutors office because they weren't getting any calls back. and the police chief too was getting calls from the girls and their parents saying what's