Just Ask My Children

Just Ask My Children is a 2001 historical drama made-for-television film, recounting the true story of the Kern County child abuse cases from the perspectives of various members of the Kniffen Family.

Denver Dunn (Graham Beckel), a private detective, is hired soon afterwards to have the Kniffen parents exonerated.

Ms. Landry (Deirdre O'Connell), who worked as a guard in the prison, would show disgust towards Brenda at first, but as time passed, she would start to have doubts about Brenda's guilt as American society began to be more critical of 1980's "Satanic Panic" type cases.

Having missed their children, and missed seeing them grow up within those 12 years, the family's reunion is bittersweet.What was also shown in the film was corruption from within the legal system, noting that the Kniffen boys were coached by social workers and prosecutor Andrew Gines (John Billingsley) to claim that the abuse had occurred.

Due to its television release date coinciding the following day with the 9/11 Attacks, the film received little attention until its DVD release in 2002, after which it was nominated for The American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot (Basic or Pay).