It's not like I was ever a Martha Coakley supporter but finding out that she lobbied against the release of Gerald Amirault is the last straw.

For those that don't remember, the Amirault family was prosecuted for supposedly sexually abusing a number of children in the daycare which they ran.  These were part of the repressed memory, Satanic ritual cases that blazed through the 1980's.  There is overwhelming evidence that they never did any such thing.*  The parole board unanimously recommended clemency which was denied. 

Lobbying to keep an innocent man in jail is pretty much beyond the pale.  It is not For The Children to do this.

I find these cases absolutely infuriating becasue they result in the destruction of numerous lives.  There are children who have been brainwashed, and I do mean brainwashed, into believing that they were abused.  So now these children have the trauma of believing that and then, for those who realize they were lied to about this, now have the trauma of realizing that they sent innocent people to jail.  Then you have the innocent people who are in jail.  The only ones who make out are the prosecutors.

Look, I'll be the first one to help hold down actual molesters while they're staked to fire ant hills and honey poured on them.  But it's the false accusations, knowingly or not, that have lead to my being incredibly cautious about interacting with any child.  There is no way in hell that I would ever volunteer to work with children.  The risks are simply too great.  I don't have the link to hand, but I remember reading articles recently about how volunteer organizations are having problems getting men to volunteer and part of the reasons are fear of false accusations.  It's a reasonable fear.

I view this as yet another example of some on the Left's willingness to agitate for the freeing of actual killers while remaining silent on issues such as these.  (Note:  There are many on the Left who found what happened in this case appalling, specifically Katha Pollitt).   I know that Coakley didn't prosecute this case.  But she actively worked to keep a man in jail who should not be there.  That's horrifying.


*Yes, there's a clown involved.  Yes, I find that pretty amusing despite the serious nature of this. 
 

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