However, it's implied throughout the series that he was molesting them before killing them. The films just couldn't say it directly and left it to viewers to fill in that blank. By the time of the remake, social mores and the MPAA had changed, so Freddy was explicitly outed as a child molester. Reply reply. TheSenileTomato. More @Wikipedia
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