CRIME STORY

I watched an excellent and unusual panel Sunday night at 11:00 p.m., July 20th, KTLA, Channel 5. The program "Crime Story" was presenting "Part III Sex Crimes: Ono of the Nation's Problems." The announcer wanted it made clear that the opinions expressed on the program were not necessarily those of KTLA and then the progran got under way. It was admirably handled and guided by Mr. Bill Bradley, the moderator.

The panel was composed of Dr. Isadore Zifferstein, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who had previously worked at the Iowa State Penotentiary for four years; Attorney Herbert Selwyn of Los Angeles, Calif.; Dr. Graves, psychiatrist, an assistant at San Quentin and a member of the Friends' Subcommittee for Legislation on the California Penal Codo, and Fred Otash, private detective, former Los Angeles policeman and "an authority on all types of orime," according to the moderator.

The first topic for panel discussi on was to define a sex orimo. To Dr. Zifforstein a sex crime was a sexual act which harmed another individual. He did not consider a sex act botween consenting adults which did no physical harm to each other a sex crime. Mr. Otash took off on Sec. 288A of the California Penal Code. This involved "sex perversion" and more precisely, copulation by mouth. It was Mr. Otash's opinion that this "sox orime" was the most prevalent in the nation. In most cases that the police deal with, where the charge could be violation of Seo. 288A, the charge is reduced to a simple "Vag-Lewd" charge. Husband and wife can commit this crime, but the police are not going to go peeking into their bedroom, generally speaking. It was because husbands and wives could also commit the se "un-natural acto" that contributed to the high theoretical incidence of this "sex orime" in Mr. Otash's opinion. Mr. Selwyn spoke of "direot sex crimes" which involved sexual organs and "indirect sex crimes" like burglary and arson which are frequently motivated by sexual conflicts. Dr. Zifferstin, reacting to Mr. Otash's definition of a sex criminal penal code in this regard regarding sexual acts would

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