Justice at Last
Dorothy Rabinowitz on the Amirault case.

Monday, July 9, 2001 12:01 A.M. EDT

On Jan. 30, 1995, The Wall Street Journal published "A Darkness in Massachusetts," an article by Dorothy Rabinowitz exposing the phony 1986 child-abuse convictions of the Amirault family of Massachusetts. Now, as Ms Rabinowitz reports today, Massachusetts' parole board has voted to commute the sentence of Gerald Amirault, the last of the family behind bars. Mr. Amirault has spent more than 15 years in prison. Here's a collection of Ms. Rabinowitz's work on the story over the past five years:

• A Darkness in Massachusetts, Jan. 30, 1995
• A Darkness in Massachusetts--II, March 14, 1995
• A Darkness in Massachusetts--III, May 12, 1995
• The Children Behind the Glass, May 15, 1996
• A Citizen of Massachusetts, Sept. 11, 1997
• 'Finality' for the Amiraults, June 30, 1999
• The Pursuit of Justice, Continued, Oct. 7, 1999
• Cheryl Amirault Is Freed, Oct. 22, 1999
• Only in Massachusetts, Dec. 29, 1999
• A Juror Has Second Thoughts, May 12, 2000
• A Hearing in Boston, Oct. 31, 2000