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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, partly for her coverage of the case. The case was also the major topic of her book about miscarriages of justice, ''No Crueler Tyrannies''. He was released on April 30, 2004 ==Accusations== The 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".〔 Among the accusations were, as summarized by Rabinowitz from court records, Amirault The Amiraults insist they were victims of the day-care sex-abuse hysteria that swept the US in the 1980s.〔 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.〔 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."〔 ''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."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerald Amirault」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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