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In 1961, a Boston woman is raped. When the baby born nine months later is black, like the rapist, she and her husband tearfully give the child to a black foster mother. Are they caring or cowards? What about the liberals who "rescue" little Barbara from the ghetto seven years later and bring her into a white world? This TV-movie asks tough questions and gives no easy answers. Anne Bancroft, Lynn Whitfield and Alice Krige are fine as the three mothers; Gloria Reuben is the embodiment of quiet rage as Barbara. Heart is deep—and heartbreaking. My score (0-10): 8

Fact based story of H.S. Athlete who skedaddled on nite of his RAPE trial & was finally brought back to face justice 8 years later.

(Sun., CBS) In 1961, a Boston woman is raped. When the baby born nine months later is black, like the rapist, she and her husband tearfully give the child to a black foster mother. Are they caring or cowards? What about the liberals who "rescue" little Barbara from the ghetto seven years later and bring her into a white world? This TV-movie asks tough questions and gives no easy answers. Heart is deep—and heartbreaking. My score (0-10): 8

(Sun., CBS) In 1961, a Boston woman is raped. When the baby born nine months later is black, like the rapist, she and her husband tearfully give the child to a black foster mother. Are they caring or cowards? What about the liberals who "rescue" little Barbara from the ghetto seven years later and bring her into a white world? This TV-movie asks tough questions and gives no easy answers. Heart is deep—and heartbreaking. My score (0-10): 8

Fact based story of H.S. Athlete who skedaddled on nite of his RAPE trial & was finally brought back to face justice 8 years later.