 After Amirault changed the pants on a young boy who had wet himself, the boy's mother, uncle and therapist questioned him over a period of months, until the boy alleged that Amirault had been sexually abusing him.The boy's mother then telephoned a child abuse hotline to report that her son had been abused sexually, and Amirault was arrested soon thereafter.As a result of the 1986 trial, Amirault was convicted of assaulting and raping nine children and sentenced to thirty to forty years in state prison.