#1300-35, 14 minutes, 2000

Severely wounded, their mother kept crying out, “Please don’t kill me! Please don’t kill me!” What effects do the sights and sounds of domestic violence have on the malleable minds of children? In this program, ABC news anchor Hugh Downs seeks to answer that question through interviews with Betsy McAlister-Groves, director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, and some of the deeply scarred children who have seen and heard far too much.