The Fells Acres day care ritual-abuse case (1984)
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Railroading the Amirault family helped propel Scott Harshbarger to statewide office in 1990, but hastened the departure of the pathetic Jane Swift in 2002.
This site includes Judge Isaac Borenstein's decision, clearly laying out the worthlessness of this prosecution.

The Bernard Baran case:
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In another Massachusetts day-care case, a 17-year-old is sentenced to life in prison for the crime of being gay in a homophobic small town.