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Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein presided over a widely publicized hearings into the case resulting in findings that all the children's testimony was tainted.

He said that " Every trick in the book had been used to get the children to say what the investigators wanted.

" Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly — which had until then had never in its 27 year history taken an editorial position on a case — published a scathing column directed at the prosecutors " who seemed unwilling to admit they might have sent innocent people to jail for crimes that had never occurred.