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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steve Leblanc

Massachusetts governor seeks pardons in 1980s sex abuse case

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A Massachusetts Statehouse panel is weighing whether to approve Gov. Charlie Baker’s recommended pardons of two individuals at the center of one the nation's most high-profile sexual abuse trials of the 1980s.

Gerald “Tooky” Amirault, his sister Cheryl Amirault LeFave and their late mother, Violet, were convicted in 1986 and 1987 of abusing young children at their Fells Acres Day Care in Malden.

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