CA - Dr. William Ayres for child molestation, San Mateo, 2007 #1

[Mercyneal]

Ayres saw a therapist when he was at Judge Baker in Boston, according to another child psychiatrist. We do not know if he saw a therapist in California. Very doubtful. I would think he would be concerned that the therapist would discover that he was a pedophile.

What strikes us is that Ayres never practiced any kind of talk therapy on his patients. He'd start asking them about masturbation right off the bat. He wasn't interested in their problems or their families or their feelings. He seems very out of touch with his own emotions.

 

[Missizzy]

The National Center for Reason and Justice is an organization dedicated to defending those they deem "wrongly accused of sexual abuse". Our family has been affected by their work for years as our children's rapist is one of their sponsored cases. If you choose to peruse the site, you will quickly determine that the NCRJ presents a single side of the story--the accused's--and there are no links to police reports, transcripts nor appeals. You must keep in mind that the vast majority of the cases they work on are those where the accused has been convicted and appeals upheld the original case.

It might be worth a look at their board and advisors to determine if any of these names show up in the Ayres case or other similar cases. Several of those listed have been expert witnesses for the defense and frequently submit amicus curiae briefs. Here's a link to those names and CVs:

http://ncrj.org/about/

It is a great mystery to me why I've yet to be contacted by nor find evidence of other victims who has been harmed by this site as we have. Most of the victims involved (and there are many) in these cases are now adults. One would think that they would be speaking out.

Our family learned of this site when one of our special needs children googled her name for a class assignment in high school. Imagine her shock at discovering her abuse was described in a skewed and highly disparaging manner and included her and her siblings' full names, address, and photos of her rapist...smiling. It took a full year of work with the AG of Oregon and our local DA to get our names fully removed from the site. I notice they are still collecting funds for our children's rapist while giving the impression that he is still imprisoned. He's been released and on the street for 10 months now.

And one wonders why victims aren't more forth-coming with disclosures.

 

[Mercyneal]

Indeed, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, who is on the board of the organization, testified for the defense in the Ayres trial. She was a wash.

I see Debbie Nathan is on that board. Ugh. She believes that the Friedmans (of the Academy Award nominated documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" ) were innocent of child molestation. She is a big fan of false memory syndrome. She's nuts.

 

[believe09]

Ayres saw a therapist when he was at Judge Baker in Boston, according to another child psychiatrist. We do not know if he saw a therapist in California. Very doubtful. I would think he would be concerned that the therapist would discover that he was a pedophile.

What strikes us is that Ayres never practiced any kind of talk therapy on his patients. He'd start asking them about masturbation right off the bat. He wasn't interested in their problems or their families or their feelings. He seems very out of touch with his own emotions.

Do you know if San Mateo has Ayres records from being evaluated by this therapist? I would think they are fair game if they are part of his medical records....

 

[Mercyneal]

Ayres' medical records in the California case are sealed. I think San Mateo was having trouble finding any records of Ayres in Boston - though we hear they are housed at Children's Hospital.

As they weren't particularly interested in Ayres' past in Boston from the first trial, I can't imagine that they would try to get his medical records.

A Boston victim needs to come forward.

 

[Mercyneal]

We repeat: anyone who was a victim of Dr. William Ayres or any other child psychiatrist at Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston needs to contact Sgt. Detective Robin Demarco at the Boston Police Department's Crimes Against Children Unit:

Office number: 617-343-6186 or 617-343-6183. Cell phone: 617-877-3698.

Email: [email protected].

 

[kbl8201]

i feel pretty useless. i live 40 miles from boston but feels more like a 1000

 

[Mercyneal]

We believe that some of Ayres' victims live forty miles outside Boston.

 

[kbl8201]

ok, i wanted to clarify since it seems there was some confusion.

i was not one of his patients, or victims. i meant i feel pretty hopless being so close geographically yet not seemingly able to do anything about it.

 

[Mercyneal]

Who knows? You never know how you might be able to help. One of your neighbors could be one of Ayres' victims. His patients from Judge Baker came from all over New England. A few came from further away.

 

[kbl8201]

well i will see what i can do. its not exactly something i'd just bring up in casual conversation but....

if i get any responses i'll let you guys know.

 

[Mercyneal]

Well it has been on the front page of the Boston Globe and it's been featured on New England Cable News. With all of the stuff about the priests in the headlines, it's actually a good time to broach the subject of pedophile child psychiatrists.

 

[Mercyneal]

We're waiting for the mental competency test results on Ayres to come back on April 28. Ayres' lawyer has another teenage client who tried to bomb a school. He ordered competency tests for him as well. Predictably, the two doctors were divided. A third doctor has been hauled in to examine the boy.

We predict the same thing will happen with Ayres. Though frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing Ayres in a mental hospital at all. To him it would be prison. There wouldn't be a chance for him to ogle little boys.

The William Ayres blog is on a roll:
www.williamayreswatch.blogspot.com

 

[believe09]

kbl-I know what you mean. BUT, after I started the dialog with people I knew that might be the right age range, my mom had childhood friend who went to Judge Baker and committed suicide when he turned 20. He was there during the years Ayres was at Judge Baker...not necessarily cause and effect, but her wheels instantly started turning and she started talking to her friends from that area and time she has kept in touch with...and all we can hope is that they tell two friends, and they tell two friends and so on and so on

 

[believe09]

What is making me crazy, fwiw, is to see how the kids who were at Judge Baker and the Detention Center were absolutely squashed, pressured and discounted when they tried to tell their stories.

This is a new age, however. Your stories can be told and believed. Look at what happened when someone like Victoria Balfour became involved in the Ayres case-the balance tipped and the man will never ever be free again. I believe that implicitly. Look at the Catholic Church scandal.

You can be heard.

 

[Mercyneal]

Does your mom remember the boy's name? If so, I would track down his parents. It's pretty easy to get directly to the truth.

 

[believe09]

Does your mom remember the boy's name? If so, I would track down his parents. It's pretty easy to get directly to the truth.

I thought about shaking it out of her, lol-just kidding.

Mom wants to deal with it herself for now, and I am giving her room. But I am ready to pounce if she lets a name slip....The thing here, Mercy, is the community she came from is very very closed mouthed. It is tough to get a wedge in there to talk about this kind of stuff-and even if he were a victim of someone inside that institution, the family would have to be willing to dig for his records. My bet is that a sibling would be more likely to be responsive than a parent who may be passed away...this boy was youger than my mom by a few years, but her parents are long passed.

 

[Mercyneal]

Other psychiatrists from Judge Baker have said that boys from there committed suicide. It does happen at these places. It happened at Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, CA too, where Ayres evaluated juveniles.

My guess is that the family would remember the name of their son's psychiatrist at Judge Baker.

I think for the sake of this boy's family, they need to get to the truth. You've known about this for over a month.... time to give your mother another nudge, in my opinion.

I also believe that reporters should be investigating Ayres' days at college and medical school in Wisconsin, and his days in Columbus, Ohio, where he lived from about the age of 11 on. Something tells me there are incidents there.

And I always wondered why Ayres' father, Edmund Dale Ayres, a longtime engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, suddenly left and took a job at the University of Ohio in his forties? I wondered if something happened to the father. Perhaps there was some scandal involving him.

 

[Mercyneal]

Ayres' father, Edmund Dale Ayres, wrote a book about engineering:

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-uk&field-author=Edmund%20Dale%20Ayres"]Amazon.co.uk: Edmund Dale Ayres: Books[/ame]

 

[Missizzy]

I find it devastatingly sad that so many males who have been sexually abused commit suicide or engage in extremely risky behavior. Of our children who were raped, it was only the boys who attempted suicide (one between 15-20 times which we know of and where there were hospitalizations and the other just once with a hospitalization). All attempts involved vivid flashbacks and days of lack of sleep--clear signs of PTSD. Tragically, one of the other boys sexually assaulted by this young man was successful in ending his life in his late teens. Therapy and EMDR have helped but any sudden stressor (like getting on a plane alone to fly to Europe, knowing that blonde men will be on that plane) can set off a panic.

Because I also have sons with bipolar, I've read extensively on that subject. I can't link to it but there have been some studies which show that risk seeking behavior can actually trigger a mania (often in the late teens or twenties) which in turn will cause the pendulum effect back to depression and attempted suicide.

I've often wondered how many people with bipolar might have "tipped" towards the disorder due to the PTSD of childhood sexual abuse. And how many of our young males who are in prisons were "tipped" towards criminality in their risk seeking due to PTSD brought on by sexual abuse?

It's a tough crime to clean up after. The after effects must cost society billions. And think of the human fall-out. It would benefit all of society to reach full prevention level. We just can't settle for less.