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Gerald "Tooky" Amirault was convicted in 1986 of molesting and raping eight 3 and 4 year-old children at the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts, run by his family, in one of the hysteria induced child-molestation cases of the 1980s. Image File history File links Amirault_01. ...
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1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fells Acres Day Care Center was located in Malden, Massachusetts. ...
Malden is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ...
For the album, see Hysteria (album) Hysteria is a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. ...
Accusations
Testimony in the cases included stories of Amirault dressed as a clown and raping children with knives, and ritual slaughter of animals. It relied heavily on testimony from young children extracted through long sessions with therapists. The Amiraults insist they were victims of the day care sex abuse hysteria that swept the US in the 1980s. Day care sex abuse hysteria was a phenomenum of the 1980s involving false accusations of sexual abuse. ...
Hysteria Many believe Amirault was railroaded, including Pulitzer Prize winner Dorothy Rabinowitz, who made the investigation and the prosecution of the Amirault case the largest portion of her book about miscarriages of justice, No Crueler Tyrannies. Listen to this article (help) Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...
Dorothy Rabinowitz is U.S conservative journalist and commentator. ...
A miscarriage of justice is primarily the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime that they did not commit. ...
Parole refused In 2002, then-Acting Governor of Massachusetts Jane Swift refused to commute Amirault's sentence, despite a unanimous vote in favor of his release by the state's parole board. 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
State nickname: Bay State Official languages English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Senators Edward Kennedy (D), John Kerry (D) Area - Total - % water Ranked 44th 27,360 km² 25. ...
Jane Swift Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician from western Massachusetts. ...
Release He was ultimately released from the Bay State Correctional Center on Friday, April 30, 2004, 18 years after his conviction. His sister and mother, Cheryl Amirault LeFave and Violet Amirault, were convicted of related charges in a separate trial, and both released from prison in 1995. Larry Hardoon, the chief prosecutor in the case, said he continues to believe Amirault committed the crimes. April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also A moral panic is a mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ...
External links - "Justice, Not So Swift" -- Article by Katha Pollitt on Swift's refusal to commute Amirault's sentence
- Boston Herald article on his release, 4/30/2004.
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