Their Part 2 on her is all about how she had a chance to put the infamous Father John Geoghan behind bars in 1995 for child molestation, but instead in a closed-door meeting gave him merely a year’s probation, giving him no criminal record at all.

Certainly sounds like it. Your typical Democratic prosecutor – looking only to advance their career, and who cares about justice?

Heck, I half-bet that Mike Nifong will have managed to recast himself as an overzealous defender of the downtrodden and be embraced by the left within a few years.

Martha is where she is because, she is part of corrupt Massachusetts Democratic political machine. She is the most partisan incompetent AG. Hopefully this race will break the machine for good

She needs no moral compass because she will march to the extreme left’s marching orders. Dems are Dems. No individual’s rights will stand in the way of their forceful delivery of Utopia to the unwashed masses.

And you can’t rightly blame Martha for this part, but the “victims” in that case settled with the Amiraults’ insurance company for a whopping $20 MILLION. http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/witch/tm-$20m.html. That whole affair was just insane. Poor Gerald wears a ankle bracelet still, and has to maintain registration as a 3rd degree sex offender. It’s galling.

Amirault was found guilty and this verdict was upheld several times by both political parties. There were physical findings of abuse in the children and the children showed signs of strong sexualized behaviors after the abuse. The children as adults continue to state they were abused.

http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/fells-acres-%E2%80%93-amirault-case/

Thank you for your calm and civil comments about this case. Rabinowitz covers one side of the case, the side of the convicted child abusers. There is another side, the side of the victims.

The victims should not be a political football for either side. Both sides (Republican Governor Jane Swift) supported the conviction as well.

Here’s information from the other side, including a WSJ article:

Letters to the Editor: The Real Darkness Is Child Abuse WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) 02/24/95 Larry Hardoon’s Letter The three Amiraults — Gerald, Violet and Cheryl – were convicted after two trials before different judges and juries almost one year apart. They were represented by able and well-known defense counsel. The convictions were upheld after review by state and federal appellate cour… in Amirault, the majority of the female children who testified had some relevant physical findings, as did several female children involved in the investigation who did not participate in the trial. The findings included labial adhesions and hymenal scarring of the sort present in a very small percentage of non-sexually abused children….The victims and their families in these cases have been irrevocably harmed by what was done to them by the Amiraults. Every argument raised by Ms. Rabinowitz was ably presented by the defense at the trials. The juries, by their verdicts, rejected these arguments. Justice was done.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010719201703/http://www.vocal-nasvo.org/hardoon.htm

Freedom of speech is a good thing. A democracy depends on many opinions to grow.

More information from the victims’ point of view, from the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.

Witness praises Amirault decision John Ellement, Boston Globe, 2/23/02 Hardoon…said…the quality of the investigation and the actions of prosecutors, police, and social workers working with the children were all scrutinized intensely during Gerald Amiraults? trial and still the jury convicted…Amirault supporters are focusing on 2 percent of the childrens claims that seem inexplicable and they are conveniently ignoring the 98 percent of the case that was overwhelming against Amirault.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/054/metro/Witness_praises_Amirault_decision+.shtml

Swift wont free Tooky by D. Guarino, E. Beardsley Boston Herald 2/20/02 Convicted child molester Gerald Tooky Amirault…denied commutation of his sentence by…Gov. Jane M. Swift.She carefully analyzed every? bit of information generated through the investigation and came to her decision that the verdict was just and the sentence was appropriate.
“All along, they’ve always told the truth,” said Harriet Dell’Anno…, whose daughter, Jamie, remains in therapy over the incidents.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020305205020/http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/swif02202002.htm

Mass. Victims Fight Commutation Plea
Leslie Miller AP 8/7/01 Victims in the Fells Acres child abuse case…described their pain publicly…in hopes of keeping the last person convicted in? the case behind bars…“So many times, Mr. Amirault hovered over me, touched me and hurt me and committed many disgusting acts of abuse.”
Those children, now adults, stood by their testimony…“This family raped me, molested me and totally ruined my life”
http://web.archive.org/web/20010807011330/http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010802/us/preschool_abuse_3.html

COMMONWEALTH vs. GERALD AMIRAULT. 404 Mass. 221 December 6, 1988 – March 6, 1989 The parents of the child witnesses testified about their children’s behavior while, or shortly after, attending Fells Acres. The children complained and cried about the school; they complained of stomachaches, headaches, pain in their genital areas, and bowel problems. They began bedwetting, lost their appetites, had nightmares, used baby talk, became fearful of lights, of men, and of being left alone. The children also displayed sexually explicit behavior; some began masturbating. Two of the boys tried to stick their tongues into their mothers’ mouths.