Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989 TV Movie)

D. Franki Horner: Miriam Stossburg

Quotes 

• Marvin Bernstein : Juries cannot deal with satanism.

  Miriam Stossburg : Oh, yeah. juries can't deal with it, Well, you know what, kids don't deal with it so well either.

• Roger Dollison : [to Miriam]  Well, I've been doing some research. Sexual abuse in preschools is very, very rare.

  Miriam Stossburg : Really, then why do the police want to cover it up when it actually happened?

  Roger Dollison : No, no. No one wants to cover anything up. The Chief has been playing golf with the Richardsons for years. Lot of questions.

  Miriam Stossburg : The other detective asked more...

  Roger Dollison : Uh-uh. I'm not a detective. Just a parent.

  Miriam Stossburg : Okay, then. As a parent, what about you? What do you believe?

  Roger Dollison : Well, I guess I have a lot of trouble stomaching the idea that a grown-up wants to have sex with a child.

• Miriam Stossburg : [about Susan Larrimer]  Yeah, you've got to admit. Somebody screwed up. How did she get a job at Tiny Tots.

  Paula Stockman : Didn't anyone from the licensing board check this woman?

  Marvin Bernstein : Look, you entrusted your children to these people. The defense is going to harp on that. Nobody including you knows what a child molester looks like. So don't go after all the people who should've known. You should've known.

• Miriam Stossburg : What they're saying about me isn't true, okay? I don't have any boyfriends. I wish that I did.

  Roger Dollison : Well. It couldn't have been George Olin. He doesn't have the disease.

  Miriam Stossburg : It happened during naptime. They gave something Josh something funny tasting. They put in his fruit juice. He woke up in the back of a van. Now he was groggy, but he still remembers them taking him.

  Roger Dollison : Who?

  Miriam Stossburg : The Richardsons. The Chief's golfing buddies drove my son to a motel room. There was a man there that Josh didn't know. He was very fat. He took pictures of Josh.

  Roger Dollison : Is that all?

  Miriam Stossburg : Fat man raped him.

  Roger Dollison : So you're not saying the Richardsons had sex with Josh?

  Miriam Stossburg : The Richardsons watched.