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Minutes before a vote could have occurred on Dec. 14 on a pair of controversial clemency bids, Gov. Charlie Baker pulled back his request to pardon two people convicted in the 1980s Fells Acre child sex abuse trials. Baker's reversal came a day after the Governor's Council held a tense and emotionally fraught hearing on
Frustration, skepticism, and decades of emotional pain filled a Governor's Council hearing room on Dec. 13 as members took up Gov. Charlie Baker's proposal to pardon two people convicted in the supercharged Fells Acre child sexual abuse case of the 1980s. Over the course of several hours of tense testimony and pointed questioning, councilors heard
The governor reversed course a day after a tense and emotionally fraught hearing on his proposal.
Gov. Baker has pardoned the Amirault siblings, who were convicted of child sex abuse in the 1980s, in the long-questioned Fells Acre daycare case.