{"id":1331,"date":"2014-10-24T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:35:56","slug":"lamb-not-only-unrepentant-prosecutor-facing-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Lamb not only unrepentant prosecutor facing voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141024Coakley.jpg\" alt=\"141024Coakley\" width=\"280\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141024Coakley.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/141024Coakley-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Oct. 24, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAs Middlesex County (Mass.) district attorney, (Martha) Coakley defended the convictions of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=829\" target=\"_blank\">Fells Acres day-care center<\/a>\u00a0operator Violet Amirault and her two children, Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave. The Amiraults are now widely recognized as victims of the mass national hysteria in the 1980s over supposed child sexual abuse in day care centers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn 2000, as the case against the Amiraults had all but collapsed, Coakley opposed the 5-0 decision by the Massachusetts Governor\u2019s Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute Gerald Amirault\u2019s sentence. To this day, Gerald lives with an ankle bracelet and strict probationary conditions, despite a growing number of people who recognize not only that he committed no crime, but that no crime was committed&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/harveysilverglate\/2014\/10\/22\/when-prosecutors-seek-higher-office-questions-often-remain-coakley-and-the-massachusetts-governorship\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>When Prosecutors Seek Higher Office, Questions Often Remain<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d\u00a0by defense attorney Harvey Silverglate at Forbes (Oct. 22)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cCoakley&#8230; refuses to acknowledge what any rational person should know, that once again (after the Salem witch trials) Massachusetts had indulged in irrational hysteria. Just what we need, a governor who can&#8217;t admit she made a mistake&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cStruggling to find the truth behind all the political rhetoric\u201d\u00a0by Barbara Anderson\u00a0 in the Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Mass. (Oct. 19)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">At the same time voters in Massachusetts will be be deciding whether to elect Martha Coakley governor, those in the First Judicial District of North Carolina will be deciding whether to elect fellow \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d prosecutor Nancy Lamb district attorney. Lamb may share with Coakley not only the inability to \u201cadmit she made a mistake,\u201d but also the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1132\">appetite for higher office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 24, 2014 \u201cAs Middlesex County (Mass.) district attorney, (Martha) Coakley defended the convictions of\u00a0Fells Acres day-care center\u00a0operator Violet Amirault and her two children, Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave. The Amiraults are now widely recognized as victims of the mass national hysteria in the 1980s over supposed child sexual abuse in day care centers&#8230;. 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