| 词条 | Gerald Amirault |
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| name = Gerald Amirault | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Gerald A. Amirault | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|3|1}} | birth_place = United States | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Tooky | conviction = | conviction_penalty = | conviction_status = | occupation = | spouse = Patricia Amirault | parents = Violet | children = 3 }} Gerald A. "Tooky" Amirault (born March 1, 1954) is an American convicted in 1986 of child sexual abuse of eight children at the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts, run by his family. He and his family deny the charges, which supporters regard as a conspicuous example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria. Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal, asserts that Amirault was railroaded. Rabinowitz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2001,[1] partly for her coverage of the case.[2] The case was also the major topic of her book about miscarriages of justice, No Crueler Tyrannies. He was released on April 30, 2004. AccusationsThe prosecution relied heavily on testimony from young children extracted through long sessions with therapists. Dorothy Rabinowitz, of the Wall Street Journal, wrote that "Other than such testimony, the prosecutors had no shred of physical or other proof that could remotely pass as evidence of abuse".[3] Among the accusations were, as summarized by Rabinowitz from court records, Amirault {{quote|had plunged a wide-blade butcher knife into the rectum of a 4-year-old boy, which he then had trouble removing. When a teacher in the school saw him in action with the knife, she asked him what he was doing, and then told him not to do it again, a child said. On this testimony, Gerald was convicted of a rape which had, miraculously, left no mark or other injury.[3]}}The Amiraults insist they were victims of the day-care sex-abuse hysteria that swept the US in the 1980s.[5] In 1995, Judge Robert Barton ordered a new trial for Violet, then 72, and Cheryl, who had been imprisoned eight years. He ordered the women released at once. Barton expressed his contempt for the prosecutors.[3] Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein presided over a widely publicized hearing into the case resulting in findings that all the children's testimony was tainted. He said that "Every trick in the book had been used to get the children to say what the investigators wanted."[3] Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly published a scathing editorial directed at the prosecutors "who seemed unwilling to admit they might have sent innocent people to jail for crimes that had never occurred."[3] Parole refusedIn 2000, the Massachusetts Governor's Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a commutation of Amirault's sentence. After nine months of investigation, the board voted 5-0, with one abstention, to commute his sentence, although no exculpatory evidence was presented. Still more newsworthy was an added statement, signed by a majority of the board, which pointed to the lack of evidence against the Amiraults, and the "extraordinary if not bizarre allegations" on which they had been convicted.[3] 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. Amirault's case had previously been upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.[4] Martha Coakley, then Middlesex district attorney and subsequently State Attorney General, lobbied Swift to keep him in prison[5] and Swift denied Amirault's clemency.[6] ReleaseAmirault was released on parole from the Bay State Correctional Center on April 30, 2004, 18 years after his conviction.[7][8] Accusers criticized his early release.[9] His sister and mother, Cheryl Amirault LeFave and Violet Amirault, were convicted of related charges in a separate trial, and both released from prison after their charges were overturned in 1995.[10] PersonalAmirault and his wife Patricia, a schoolteacher whom he married in 1977, have three children: Gerrilyn, Katie, and P.J. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2001-Commentary |title=The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation |publisher=Pulitzer.org |date= |accessdate=2009-08-05}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6413 |title=The Pulitzer Prizes | A Hearing in Boston |publisher=Pulitzer.org |date=2000-10-31 |accessdate=2009-08-05}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862|title=Martha Coakley's Convictions|last=Rabinowitz|first=Dorothy|date=January 14, 2010|work=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=January 18, 2010}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005023 |title=Gerald Amirault's Freedom: Today he leaves prison, after serving 18 years on phony charges|newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=April 30, 2004|accessdate=September 16, 2008}} 5. ^{{cite book |author=Mei Ling Rein |title=Child abuse: betraying a trust |publisher=Thomson/Gale |location=Detroit |year=2005 |page= 104|isbn=0-7876-9068-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020318/pollitt|title=Justice, Not So Swift: Subject to Debate|last=Pollitt|first=Katha|date=February 28, 2002|publisher=The Nation|accessdate=January 18, 2010}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005141|date=May 28, 2004|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050217160518/http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005141|archivedate=February 17, 2005|title=Homecoming: Gerald Amirault enjoys his first days of freedom in 18 years |last=Rabinowitz|first=Dorothy|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=January 17, 2010}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/626224171.html?dids=626224171:626224171&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+1%2C+2004&author=J.M.+LAWRENCE&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=007&desc=%60Tooky%27+Amirault+walks+free+after+18+years |title=`Tooky' Amirault walks free after 18 years |publisher=Boston Herald |date=May 1, 2005|accessdate=2009-12-28 | first=J.M. | last=Lawrence}} 9. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20141112101808/http://business.highbeam.com/3972/article-1G1-109003627/parole-board-votes-free-tooky HighBeam] 10. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/13/48hours/main635980.shtml|title=A Family Accused: Employees At Day Care Center Accused Of Abusing Children|last=Leung |first=Rebbeca|date=April 27, 2004|publisher=CBS|accessdate=January 18, 2010}} External links
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