whats the deal with TOOKIE? Options

[hooligan]

WORD,bra!

QUOTE(Rev. Brixx @ Oct 5 2007, 09:50 AM)

Imagine after ARTS N CRAFTS you knock on the door clearly marked "Tookies Magic Room". the door opens n it's a man with horrible face paint on, wearing nothing but black socks, and whitey tighty underwear, holding a bottle of whisky, n a cigarette hangin from his lips!

http://www.maldenpd.com/newweb/SexOffender/Amirault.htm

Daddy's home !

[Rev. Brixx]

QUOTE(Rev. Brixx @ Oct 5 2007, 09:50 AM)

Imagine after ARTS N CRAFTS you knock on the door clearly marked "Tookies Magic Room". the door opens n it's a man with horrible face paint on, wearing nothing but black socks, and whitey tighty underwear, holding a bottle of whisky, n a cigarette hangin from his lips!

http://www.maldenpd.com/newweb/SexOffender/Amirault.htm

Daddy's home !

he just looks like a clown,bra!

[hooligan]

he just looks like a clown,bra!

Tookie is the BAD clown, bra !?!

[Rev. Brixx]

Tookie is the BAD clown, bra !?!

...or is he really the good clown,bra...

[hooligan]

...or is he really the good clown,bra...

Bozo was a good clown...Tookie not so much, bra !

[Rev. Brixx]

..QUICK! Gacy or Tookie..wich clown do you go trick or treating with?

This post has been edited by Rev. Brixx: Feb 10 2009, 10:57 PM

[screeg neegis]

The Fells Acres Nightmare
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from Mark Pendergrast, Victims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives (2nd edition), Upper Access Books, Hinesburg VT, 1996; pp. 374-378. It can be ordered by phone at 1-800-356-9315




Copyright © 1996 by Mark Pendergrast


But it was in the United States that the majority of the sex abuse hysteria cases occurred, and many innocent people remain in prison there.

In a case that was virtually forgotten when the first edition of "Victims of Memory" was published, three innocent people Gerald "Tooky" Amirault, now 41, his sister Cheryl LaFave, 37, and his mother, Violet Amirault, 71 were found guilty of horrendous sexual abuse and sentenced to prison in Massachusetts. Because I have become particularly well-acquainted with this situation, and another that relates to it, I hope I can help raise public awareness of these cases.

The Amiraults' troubles began one sunny spring day in 1984, when four-and-a-half-year-old Murray Caissie, a newcomer to the long-established Fells Acre Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts, wet himself during his nap. Deeply embarrassed, he was happy when Tooky changed his pants, cleaned him up, and provided him with alternate clothing kept on hand for such emergencies. Murray carried his wet underwear and pants home in a plastic bag. Nothing more was said of the incident.

Over the summer, Denise Caissie took Murray out of the day-care, but she wrote a note of thanks to Violet Amirault, asking her to hold a place for her son in the fall. All was not well in the Caissie household, however. Murray's father, an unemployed custodian with a violent temper, moved out in April of 1984, returned in October, then left again. Murray had always had a bed-wetting problem, but it worsened that spring. He began to imitate the baby-talk of his 16-month-old brother and to act up more often. One night when Murray was crying because he had trouble urinating, his mother told him how one of her brothers had been molested at camp and how Murray should tell her if anyone ever did that to him. The events that followed are unclear, because several conflicting versions were presented in court. What is undisputed is that on Sunday, September 2, the eve of Labor Day, Denise Caissie called a Department of Social Services (DSS) hotline complaining that a man named Tooky had taken her son to a "secret room" and molested him. It was almost exactly a year after Judy Johnson had sparked the McMartin case.

The following day, two Malden policemen came to the school to request a list of all the children. Violet Amirault sensed that the school, which had been her life for the last 20 years, was in jeopardy, and she protested angrily. "I'll have you people shut down," one of the policemen told her. And he did.

On Wednesday, September 5, two days before the birth of his third child, Tooky was arrested on rape charges, without anyone ever questioning him. A week later, the police summoned over a hundred parents to a meeting at the station. There, social workers passed out a laundry list of behavioral symptoms which they said might indicate sexual abuse -- bedwetting, nightmares, poor appetite, crying on the way to school -- and asked parents to report any such problems. Very quickly, about 40 cases surfaced. [FOOTNOTE: Frantic parents looking for symptoms also had a financial incentive: a $300,000-per-year-per-child insurance policy covered molested children at the day care. Eventually, 18 families would receive about $20 million collectively, over their lifetimes. Money has been a motivating factor in some cases because of Victims Assistance programs, a well-meaning source of funds for crime victims which has, unfortunately, been misused in false accusations of sexual abuse.] Of the children questioned, 19 eventually corroborated, after many sessions, that Miss Vi, Miss Cheryl, and Tooky had molested them in grotesque ways. (They also named most of the other teachers, as well as a mythical Mr. Gatt, but they were never arraigned.) Only nine of the most believable children testified in the trial.

The investigators had help. Prosecuting attorney Lawrence Hardoon traveled to California to talk to the McMartin trial team and came back full of information and ideas. Not so coincidentally, the children's allegations took on many of the same ritualistic, bizarre aspects. Like Ray Buckey, Tooky Amirault had supposedly dressed as a clown. Whereas the McMartin molesters had taken the children to tunnels underneath the school, Tooky had performed his sodomy, forced fellatio, and assorted other disgusting acts in a "magic room" hidden somewhere in the day-care center. Pediatric nurse Susan Kelley, who has published widely about the horrors of ritual abuse, conducted leading interviews with many of the children.

Like Kee MacFarlane in the McMartin case, Susan Kelley refused to take no for an answer. Here is a slightly edited excerpt from one interview, in which she used Bert and Ernie puppets:


Susan Kelley: Would you tell Ernie?
Child: No.
Kelley: Ah, come on [pleading tone]. Please tell Ernie. Please tell me. Please tell me. So we could help you. Please. . . . You whisper it to Ernie. . . . Did anybody ever touch you right there [pointing to the vagina of a girl doll]?
Child: No.
Kelley: [pointing to the doll's posterior] Did anybody touch your bum?
Child: No.
Kelley: Would you tell Bert?
Child: They didn't touch me!
Kelley: Who didn't touch you?
Child: Not my teacher. Nobody.
Kelley: Did any big people, any adult, touch your bum there?
Child: No.

Another exchange with a four-year-old shows how Susan Kelley jumped on any comment that might lead to a stereotyped accusation -- in this case, the notion that day care abusers took pornographic photos of naked children:

Kelley: How about when you went to school at Fells Acres, did anybody look at your vagina?
Child: No.
Kelley: Ohh. Did anybody at Fells Acres ever touch your vagina?
Child: No. They took down our pictures.
Kelley: What pictures?
Child: The pictures hanging on the walls.
Kelley: Ohh. Who took your picture?
Child: Not pictures of us -- the pictures we drew!
Kelley: Ohh. Did anybody take pictures of girls with their clothes off?
Child: No.

[FOOTNOTE: Susan Kelley's persistence and obvious belief that abuse had occurred isn't surprising, given her published remarks on the reality of satanic ritual abuse. In 1989, she wrote that ritualistic abuse was "often characterized by forced ingestion of human excrement, semen or blood; ceremonial killing of animals; threats of harm from supernatural powers; ingestion of drugs or magic potions'; and use of satanic songs, chants or symbols."]
In testimony before a grand jury, Denise Caissie asserted that Tooky had taken her son out of his classroom to this magic room every day. The evil Amirault also supposedly forced the boy to drink his own urine in front of his teachers, though none of the teachers witnessed such a thing; nor had they ever heard of a magic room, or remembered Tooky taking the child out of the classroom.

Judge Elizabeth Dolan presided over the 1986 trial, pioneering in an attempt to spare the children -- who were two to five at the time of the alleged abuse and now a year and a half older -- from normal confrontive courtroom procedures. The public was barred from the courtroom. Children were seated in little plastic chairs at a miniature table. To make herself less threatening, Dolan removed her black robes and perched on a small chair next to them. The children were positioned so that they did not have to see the accused, and their parents were allowed to sit just behind them to lend moral support. Rules against leading the witness went out the window for the children. When Hardoon asked the children if they had been abused, they often answered that they had not. With sufficiently pointed questions, however, they usually came around. Defense attorneys had to whisper objections. Judge Dolan routinely disallowed them.

The clear presumption was that the day-care providers were guilty, that these children had been so terrorized and abused that the leading questions were justified, and that to subject them to normal courtroom procedures would be to "retraumatize" them. It did not seem to occur to anyone that the children were being psychologically traumatized by the Department of Social Services, the police, and the court, and that they might sustain life-long psychic scars as a result.

Logic, in fact, had little to do with the trial. Children said that they had told their teachers they were going to a magic room, even though no teacher had heard of such a room. They told stories of attacks by a robot, being forced to eat a frog Miss Vi had killed, and being molested by clowns and lobsters. One boy told how he had been tied naked to a tree in the school yard in front of all the teachers and children. Though the teachers denied the incident, and no other child verified it, Amirault was found guilty of other offenses this child recounted -- how Tooky had raped him with a thick pointed stick which looked like a gun, for instance. [FOOTNOTE: During Tooky's trial, the boy asserted that he had been hung upside down from the tree and forced to eat white pills; at Vi and Cheryl's trial, however, he claimed to be right-side up and did not recall eating pills.] Even the accused man's nickname, which derived from the sound his mother made when she chucked him under the chin as an infant, came to sound sinister and revolting in Hardoon's mouth. "Yes, and what else did Tooky do to you?"

After a 13-day deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict. The following year, in a separate trial, his mother and sister were also convicted. For more than seven years, they have all languished in jail, losing subsequent appeals and repeatedly being denied parole.

Two days after Tooky Amirault's conviction, his lawyers discovered that Shirley Crawford, a 54-year-old juror, had not told the entire truth about her own background. When she was 14, she had been raped and testified at a trial which sent the rapist to prison for ten years. When confronted with this information, Crawford denied having any memory of the rape. She must have repressed it, she said. Judge Dolan believed her and refused to order a mistrial.

Amirault tries not to hold a grudge. "I don't blame the kids and parents. They were as much victims as we were," he told me from his jail cell. He is still bitter that the media coverage and the judge were so one-sided. "When the kids said 'No,' it meant 'Yes.' It was unbelievable. Talk about the deck being stacked against you. You're almost better off killing somebody, really committing a crime. This sex abuse stuff is like fighting ghosts. I just want people to know what really happened, not what was reported in the scandal sheets or the 'Boston Herald American.' I'd sit in the courtroom all day long, and we'd have a real good day in court. Then the paper would come out the next day, and I'd say, 'Wow, I can't believe this is the same trial I sat through.' Now when I read the newspaper, I only believe the sports pages; the scores and standings are probably accu¬rate. I take everything else with a pound of salt."

For years, Violet Amirault and her daughter Cheryl LaFave were denied parole because they insisted on their innocence. The parole report for 71-year-old Violet read: "Parole denied. Vigorously denies the offense(s). Until such time as she is able to take responsibility for her crimes and engages in long term therapy to address the causative factors, she will remain a risk to the community if released." Fortunately, in 1995, in the wake of a public outcry fomented primarily by articles on Fells Acres by "Wall Street Journal" reporter Dorothy Rabinowitz, the mother and daughter were released from prison. They won an appeal based on their inability to face the accusing children in court.

Unfortunately, unlike his mother and sister, Gerald "Tooky" Amirault's appeal on the same issue went before Judge Elizabeth Dolan, who had presided over the original trial. Not surprisingly, she denied his appeal, stating in her decision: "The courtroom seating arrangement at issue reduced the risk of trauma to the child witnesses." In other words, Dolan continues to assume that abuse took place and that Amirault was guilty. He remains in prison.

http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/witch/mp-fells.html
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Gerald's Plight
Most of the court activity of the past few years has centered on the trial on Violet and Cheryl Amirault. But the evidence that convicted Gerald was just as flimsy, and Gerald has remained imprisoned since 1986. The difference is that Violet and Cheryl were assigned reasonable and decent judges, and Gerald was not. The women's original judge, Paul Sullivan, believes that their convictions should be overturned. When Sullivan retired, the case was given to Judge Robert Barton.

Barton is so convinced that a miscarriage of justice occurred that he recused himself, believing he could no longer be impartial. Judge Borenstein proved himself a thoughtful and cautious jurist. But the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, choosing to place finality above justice, rejected Borenstein's humane and well-reasoned decision to give Cheryl a new trial.

Gerald was tried by Elizabeth Dolan, a True Believer in Ritual Abuse and "repressed" memory. During Gerald's trial, Dolan disregarded all normal rules that protect the rights of the accused. (In 1993, Dolan presided over another outrageous miscarriage of justice, the conviction of Ray and Shirley Souza on the basis not only of coerced and fabricated children's testimony, but also on the basis or "recovered repressed" memories of the Souza's 24-year-old daughter, who had a dream that her parents raped her.) Dolan, fortunately, has retired and can do no more harm to the innocent. But the cruelty and obstinacy of Massachusetts' highest court remains a terrible obstacle for Gerald.

Stating that "we are stubborn, but not stupid," Gerald's lawyers on April 19, 2000, petitioned Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci to commute Gerald's sentence. I attended the press conference, and wrote this account. A hearing on Gerald's petition was held on September 20, 2000. (Click here for my account of the hearing.)

On July 6, 2001, the Massachusetts Parole Board voted 5-0 in support of commutation. But on February 19, 2002, the cowardly and incompetent Massachusetts governor -- Jane Swift -- refused to approve the commutation.

Those of us who care about justice, however, will fight on. We won't let the bastards defeat us.

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How Could the Amiraults Have Been Convicted By Such Shoddy Evidence?

How was such madness possible? The national wave of daycare hysteria began in 1983 when similar outlandish accusations were made in California at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. Because of national media-generated panic, copycat cases (such as Fells Acres) sprung up all over the country. Innocent people such as Kelly Michaels in New Jersey, workers at the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, and Bernie Baran of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, were sent to prison. The more horrible the accusation, the less evidence a prosecutor needs to convict. (If the accusation is horrible enough, the prosecution needs no evidence at all.) Janet Reno herself prosecuted three very dubious cases, and was rewarded by being made US Attorney General. With a few honorable exceptions (such as Alan Rubenstein, DA of Bucks County, Pennsylvania) politically ambitious prosecutors such as Harshbarger exploited the mindless hysteria for all it was worth.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzex11z4/amirp2.html#Gerald

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzex11z4/amirault.html

[hooligan]

..QUICK! Gacy or Tookie..wich clown do you go trick or treating with?

Heard that Tookie got the good snacks, bra

[Rev. Brixx]

Heard that Tookie got the good snacks, bra

so your goin with the Tookstah,bra?

[hooligan]

so your goin with the Tookstah,bra?

not a fan of trick or treat or the Tookstah, bra

Gacy murdered his victims before/after he molested them
and buried them under the porch.

Tookie molested his but let them live.

just sayin' ..........

[Rev. Brixx]

not a fan of trick or treat or the Tookstah, bra

Gacy murdered his victims before/after he molested them
and buried them under the porch.

Tookie molested his but let them live.

just sayin' ..........

...so your goin with Gacy?

[screeg neegis]

not a fan of trick or treat or the Tookstah, bra


Tookie molested his but let them live.

just sayin' ..........

Gerald Amirault was innocent.

[Gee Mann]

Jimmy Walker ran away, and didn't say goodbye.
Kinko went to look for him to help the FBI.
Now Kinko's back with tears in his eyes saying,
"I'll be back to play with you some time in 20 years!"

[hooligan]

...so your goin with Gacy?

bad clown, bra, bad clown

[Rev. Brixx]

bad clown, bra, bad clown

You gotta pic one here,bra! No beatin round the bush!

[Gee Mann]

Un-like J.W. Gacey, there is a lot of doubt as to what actually happened at the Fells Acres day care center. There have been serious accusations of "false memory" syndrome in this case.
Some people say this was just another 'witch hunt" for which the state of Massachusetts is famous for.

[Rev. Brixx]

Un-like J.W. Gacey, there is a lot of doubt as to what actually happened at the Fells Acres day care center. There have been serious accusations of "false memory" syndrome in this case.
Some people say this was just another 'witch hunt" for which the state of Massachusetts is famous for.

ok...Bobo the Clown or Tookie?

This post has been edited by Rev. Brixx: Feb 13 2009, 09:37 AM

[hooligan]

You gotta pic one here,bra! No beatin round the bush!

who YOU goin' with, bra ? bad clown Tookie, bra ??

[Rev. Brixx]

who YOU goin' with, bra ? bad clown Tookie, bra ??

you first!

[hooligan]

you first!

ok, Tookie it is, bra !

[Rev. Brixx]

ok, Tookie it is, bra !

you sick fuck!

[hooligan]

you sick fuck!

[Rev. Brixx]

just outta curiousity,bra...i notice you only post in this thread, why...are you obsessed with the Tookstah just as much as I am?

[hooligan]

just outta curiousity,bra...i notice you only post in this thread, why...are you obsessed with the Tookstah just as much as I am?

wouldn't say obsessed, bra...but morbidly interested

also, saw Tookie in Malden recently, bra

[Rev. Brixx]

wouldn't say obsessed, bra...but morbidly interested

also, saw Tookie in Malden recently, bra

Get the fuck outta here,bra! He wasnt in a playground....was he?