Anti-Tax Group Hires Paroled Sex Offender

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MARBLEHEAD, Mass. - A man who spent 18 years in jail after being convicted of raping eight children at a day care where he worked has been hired by an anti-tax group.



Gerald Amirault was convicted in 1986 of molesting and raping 3- and 4-year-old children at the Fells Acres day care center he and his family ran in Malden, a city north of Boston. Amirault, who maintains his innocence, was released on parole last year.


Citizens for Limited Taxation has hired Amirault as a researcher at its Marblehead office. Barbara Anderson, the anti-tax group's executive director, said she believes Amirault was unjustly convicted and will be an enthusiastic employee.


Amirault, 51, who recently graduated from Boston University with a liberal arts degree, said he is grateful for the job and wants to leave his past behind

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050410/ap_on_re_us/day_care_abuse

[mike_c]

1. why is this "news...?"

This is the kind of yellow journalism that really pisses me off. Why shouldn't this guy be able to get a job? He did his time. He hasn't committed new crimes. What possible good is there in haunting him? Yes-- I'd be reluctant to hire him to work with kids, but what possible relevance does his earlier conviction have to his being hired by an "anti-tax group?" Maybe he should have had a scarlet letter tattooed on his forehead, too.

[meganmonkey]

2. I'm afraid to say that

I pretty much agree with you, mike_c.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

3. This is a bad example

I have followed the Fells Acres story and believe this guy probably IS innocent. I am glad to see he is finally out of jail.

[onager]

4. I agree with you...

After I saw a documentary on the Fells Acres case, I did some research on it. It sounds like a horrible miscarriage of justice, and it took place in the same one-sided, witch-hunt atmosphere as the McMartin case out here in California.

It's amazing how common sense went right out the window in these types of cases. Both of them involved day-care centers that had been operated for years. e.g., Virginia McMartin had cared for several generations of kids. Then all of a sudden they start carrying out satanic rituals and abusing children?

McMartin had a really ugly twist involving the media (big surprise). The "expert" witness who grilled the kids, Kee McFarlane, was sleeping with a local anchorman.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The McMartin case was a tragedy

It all started when a mother reported her son's claim that he had been molested at the school. What the police ignored is that this mother had an extensive psychiatric 'history'.

One of the facts that is seldom reported when that story comes up is that EVERY teacher in that school lost his/her state certification, even the ones who were never accused. Some got their cert back, but most did not. They were only guilty of working at a school where a witch hunt took place.

There was also a bad case in NJ about the same time.

[jmowreader]

5. Wasn't Fells Acres in the same time frame as

Little Rascals in NC and McMartin in CA?

I remember reading of a case where some researchers took a preschool (it may have been a kindergarten) and set a barstool in the corner. They had a video camera pointed at the stool. Then they brought a man into the classroom and had him sit on the stool. For an hour he sat with his hands folded, saying nothing.

Then they brought in the child sex abuse investigators, and within the hour they'd managed to prove this guy had raped every one of them, killed the class hamster and ate it, served everyone a glass of blood and made them drink it, and converted them all to Satanism. While he was sitting on the stool with his hands folded.

The children had never seen this man before--they'd brought him in from the other side of the continent.

I have no doubt Amirault will be an enthusiastic employee. He's probably a decent guy.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Remember some of the ridiculous claims of abuse

at the McMartin School? There was a tunnel under the school leading to a torture chamber. The school was eventually torn down and - you guessed it - no tunnel. There were also stories of kids being taken by bus to places that were really far away - no way could they have taken these field trips and got back to school in time to be picked up by their unsuspecting parents at the end of the day.

What I find even sadder though is that some of these kids who made the false accusations still believe they were horrifically molested. They are adults now and were so effectively brainwashed by police, prosecutors and their own parents that they are convinced they were victims. I saw several of them interviewed about 5 years ago. They will never get over the brainwashing. THAT is the real tragedy.