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Amirault will soon be a free man - Convicted molester heads home next week By John Ellement - 4/22/04 "Gerald Amirault, whose 1986 convictions for child rape helped spawn a national debate over the testimony of children in molestation cases, will be freed from prison next week after Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley decided yesterday she cannot prove the most notorious figure in the Fells Acre Day Care Center case is currently a threat to children. In October, the state Parole Board voted to grant parole to Amirault, who has served 17 of his 30 to 40-year sentence, and prosecutors had six months to decide if they would seek to have him civilly committed as a sexually dangerous person." "The family and their supporters have long argued that the preschool age children who made the molestation accusations were steered into doing so by unskilled police and social workers who used interrogation techniques that have since been discredited by other professionals. "Jennifer Bennett, one of the children who testified against Amirault in Middlesex Superior Court, said yesterday that she was not wrong then and is not wrong now. "He did rape and molest me; that is still in my head," said Bennett, who is now married and the mother of a son and daughter. "He is sick. He did it once. He will do it again. . . . He's like a wild animal who needs his prey." Bennett, her husband, and two children have spent the past two weeks living with her parents at their Malden home. Bennett said she remains fearful of Amirault and feels safer being in her parents' home. Bennett and other Amirault victims were notified Tuesday by Coakley's office that the last barrier to Amirault's release is now gone. Bennett and her father, Paul A. Bennett, both said they did not find fault with Coakley, but they blamed the Parole Board for October's decision to grant Amirault parole even though he has refused to acknowledge he committed the crimes. "She wouldn't let us down; she wouldn't let us victims down," Jennifer Bennett said. "If anyone could have gotten anything done, Martha could have. She fought for us. This is an outcome you can't do much about." Bennett said Amirault's impending release is forcing her to resume therapy after a two-year break." http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/22/amirault_will_soon_be_a_free_man/
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Church Slaying - Priest accused of murdering nun in 1980 - Holy Saturday slaying occurred in Mercy chapel 4/24/04 By Robin Erb, and Christina Hall "Twenty-four years after an elderly nun was killed in the sacristy of a Mercy Hospital chapel, the priest who presided over her funeral service was arrested and charged last night in the slaying.The Rev. Gerald Robinson faces a charge of murder in the death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. The 71-year-old woman, who belonged to the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, was found dead April 5, 1980. It was Holy Saturday. Sources described her death as part of a ritual slaying in which Sister Margaret was strangled, then covered with an altar cloth, and stabbed several times along the neck and torso. Police yesterday said she was stabbed 27 to 32 times, with most of the wounds inflicted after she died. Her body had been posed and it initially appeared that she had been sexually assaulted, though authorities offered no details last night." http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040424/NEWS03/404240373
three fwds from L Moss Sharman - Freed Serial Molester Moves to Wash. State - The man released in Orange County after winning an appeal of his life-sentence conviction once told a therapist of more than 200 victims. By Christine Hanley 4/16/04 "A serial child molester freed in Orange County last week from a life sentence has resurfaced in Washington state, where authorities say he once cruised for victims â and where he will be required to register as a serious sex offender deemed likely to repeat his crimes. Edward Harvey Stokes, who once said to a therapist that he had molested more than 200 victims." http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stokes16apr16,1,5188873.story?coll=l
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Two victims testify they were molested by former priest Porter By AP 4/12/04 Taunton, Mass. - A former altar boy said Monday that he was molested several times in the early 1960s by the Rev. James Porter, including once in a hospital bed while he was recovering from pneumonia....Porter, 69, was a priest in the Fall River Diocese who was convicted in 1993 of molesting 28 children. He completed his prison term in January, but prosecutors petitioned to have him committed indefinitely to the Massachusetts Treatment Center for sexual offenders in Bridgewater. If Judge David McLaughlin decides there is enough evidence, a trial will be held on the state's request to keep Porter locked up." http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=3408
A stain on the family uniform - Scandal tarnishes a golden police clan 4/21/04 Linda Diebel "Jocko Thomas, the Star's legendary police reporter, met McCormack when he was in homicide and watched his fast rise. "He was the first Roman Catholic chief of police," says Thomas, 90. "It used to be in Toronto that if you weren't a Mason or a member of the Orange Lodge, you just got stuck in the force, never promoted. Well, they always had one token Roman Catholic inspector." http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1082499013955&call_pageid=968332188492 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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