Born Innocent (film)
Born Innocent is a 1974 American television movie which was first aired under the NBC World Premiere Movie umbrella on September 10, 1974. Highly publicized and controversial, Born Innocent was the highestrated television movie to air in the United States in 1974. The movie deals with the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of a teenage girl, and included graphic content never before seen on American television at that time.
Throughout the movie, Chris social worker Emma Lasko Allyn Ann McLerie never realizes that her dysfunctional parents caused her to run away and the juvenile justice system focused all the blame and punishment on Christine for her bad behavior. With the exception of one dedicated counselor, named Barbara Clark Joanna Miles, the reform school personnel were mostly apathetic and allowed an unhealthy, destructive culture to fester in the school. Despite Barbaras attempts to help Christine talk about her problems, she is powerless as Chris refuses to open up to her or anyone else about her problems at home.After Chris is investigated for starting a riot at the reform school after a pregnant detainee miscarried due to the abuse by the staff, she calmly maintains that she had nothing to do with any of the events that happened. In the final shot, Barbara looks on helplessly as she sees Chris, an innocent, intelligent, decent girl, now fully transformed into a violent, pathological, manipulative, vengeful and cold person, no longer having any guilt or remorse for her actions, will most likely become an adult criminal when released upon turning legal age. ........
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