GUILTY CA - Dr. William Ayres for child molestation, San Mateo, 2007 #2

[Mercyneal]

In these surveillance videos taken by a private investigator hired by the families of Ayres' vicitms to prove Ayres' mental competency (because the police and San Mateo District Attorney's office couldn't be bothered) Ayres discusses a wide range of topics, including the Iowa straw polls and the current state of the Republican party: a business he had in the 1980s.

Ayres also laughs when one of his lunch companions says that the only benefit of Alzheimer's is that "you can mention it in front of lawyers cause it's serving a purpose."

Ayres' lawyer is claiming that he is in early stages of Alzheimer's.

 

[Mercyneal]

San Jose Mercury story today: Families Hire Private Investigator To Track Dr. William Ayres

In a last-ditch effort to show Dr. William Ayres is competent to stand trial on molestation charges, families of alleged victims hired a private investigator to tail the once-prominent child psychiatrist last week to a restaurant in San Francisco.

A video shot by the investigator shows Ayres, who claims dementia has made him unable to aid in his defense, engaging in animated conversation with his wife and two male acquaintances.

http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_18728440?source=rss

 

[i.b.nora]

I took a quick look and didn't see this article posted here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_18728440?source=

Families hire private investigator to track Dr. William Ayres

By Aaron Kinney
Posted: 08/21/2011 12:07:13 PM PDT
Updated: 08/21/2011 12:13:35 PM PDT

At least this article will reach a broader audience, not sure it will make a difference, and am baffled by the handling of this case, just from the little I have read.

 

[Missizzy]

Forget the walker. That wouldn't prove a darned thing. Will someone explain to me just what driving has to do with all this? Leaving the driving to someone else would be the easiest way possible to depict oneself as disabled. He also could have given up driving for something as minor as cataracts. And FWIW, people with Alzheimer's drive all the time, even though they shouldn't.

Anyone who can successfully go out for a meal, feed themselves and contribute meaningfully to the conversation sure wouldn't qualify as disabled under the conditions set forth by the Social Security system. Has anyone ever determined if Ayres receives SS Disability? If his dementia is severe enough that he'd qualify for that program through a functional abilities assessment, I might buy his story.

 

[Missizzy]

OK, I just finished watching both videos. I am the mother of eight children with disabilities, I've worked with special needs children and adults for the last 38 years, my mother has Alzheimer's AND I have a severe CNS disability. I think I'm a pretty good judge of what normal functioning looks like and what disabled functioning looks like. This man is NOT disabled to a degree that he can't take part in a trial.

Watch his body language, the way he gestures, the way he leans into the conversation, the way he checks out his surroundings, his posture, his eye contact, the way he easily handles his dinnerware, the way he multi-tasks.

Not buying it for a second.

 

[Mercyneal]

By our count, in the last six days San Mateo District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has told at least five different stories to people, including a reporter; a San Mateo Supervisor and an anguished mother of a a victim about what he intended to do with the Ayres case. Although he told the Supervisor on August 16, 2011 that the only options on the table were "Napa or a retrial" less than 24 hours he told the mother of the victim that a retrial was NOT an option, and he could not justify the cost to taxpayers. But it was his own prosecutor (who is now being investigated by a government agency for misconduct) who bungled the case and lied about inculpatory evidence.

Here's a news story from ABC Channel 7 KGO in San Francisco tonight: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=8320593

There will be other chapters in this story to come.

 

[time]

YESS!! Marta Diaz, the juvenile judge and longtime supporter of Ayres - who sent hundreds of boys to him - and who according to the San Mateo District Attorney's office, tried to get the San Mateo police to stop investigating Ayres for child molestation - has just been transferred out of the juvenile courts.

"Shakeup at Juvenile Court - Judge Reassigned"
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/artic...e=Shakeup at juvenile court, judge reassigned

San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has been telling Bay Area reporters since 2005 that Diaz tried to interfere when the San Mateo police started to investigate Ayres in 2002. Although he didn't want to be quoted, and the information was off the record, Wagstaffe told a reporter named Jason Dearen for the San Mateo County Times that when the police started to investigate Ayres, Diaz said, "Don't investigate." Wagstaffe told the reporter, "There was a power struggle between Diaz and her camp, and the DA, who wanted to prosecute."

Two other former juvenile judges who sent boys to Ayres - Margaret Kemp and Pat Bresee have apologized to reporters and quoted as saying that they feel guilt for unknowingly sending boys to Ayres.

Not Diaz. Instead, here's what she told reporter John Roemer for the San Francisco legal paper, the Daily Journal:

Not everyone is a fan. Diaz is among a number of county officials who have come under fire recently for referring juveniles to a child psychiatrist who was later charged with molesting three young male patients. Dr. William Ayres is set to stand trial later this year. Local government watchdog Michael G. Stogner, of Belmont, has insisted that
county officials, including Diaz, continued sending patients to Ayres, despite knowing
about the accusations. New York-based journalist and victims’ advocate, Victoria
Balfour, has accused Diaz of protecting Ayres.
Diaz shrugged off the attacks. "Stogner and Balfour have this little jihad against me," she said. "I don’t care. I know it’s all bull****. All will come out."

Incidentally, for those unjudicious comments in the press, Diaz was disciplined by the California Commission on Judicial Performance in 2009.

I had forgotten about this case... UGH. Thank goodness Diaz was disciplined. The California Commission Judicial Performance rarely does anythign

 

[ohiogirl]

In m mind, I wish this means something. There has been too much cover up by the da

they dont' want to bring this case to trial, so it won't, but if enough pressure comes to bear, maybe the da will have to answer?
wishful thinking?

 

[Mercyneal]

Ohiogirl: It's not wishful thinking. At least TWO government agencies are currently investigating DA Steve Wagstaffe and his prosecutor for their misconduct on the Ayres case AND other cases.

This is not the last chapter. Stay tuned!

 

[ohiogirl]

I guess I just don't have alot of optimism at this point. I am staying tuned, thanks.

 

[Mercyneal]

One victim states that he was given alcohol laced with a drug and raped by Ayres in his office when he was 13.

Ayres said, "If you let me do this to you, I will make sure you don't go to juvenile hall."

Another victim remembers that Ayres had him "so drugged up" that he could barely stand up.

He was in that drugged up state and lying in bed when he was sexually assaulted by Ayres at Belmont Hills Hospital.

The victim remembers blacking out in his bed as Ayres was assaulting him.

 

[Mercyneal]

The "evaluation" that the judge has ordered for Ayres at Golden Gate Regional Center (where it appears Ayres may have done some work) to decide where he is going a sham. It's pretty clear that the DA cut a deal two months ago to send Ayres to a cushy rest home. To give doctors only one week to evaluate Ayres is unheard of. Pretty clear they've already "evaluated " him. Normally it takes three to four weeks to evalute someone about which hospital they would go to.

Sounds like DA Wagstaffe panicked when presented with evidence by the private investigator last Friday that Ayres was mentally competent and has asked the judge to ram this process as fast as they can so the parents can't do any more damage to his little deal about Ayres being too incapicated to stand trial, and get him into a cushy rest home close to his house in San Mateo.

Since June 24, the prosecutor on this case has been telling families and victims since June 24 that Ayres will "never go to Napa" and that they are allowing Ayres' lawyer to look for a cushy rest home for him.

Wagstaffe,however has been trying to keep the rest home deal a secret from the public, because he knew they would be outraged. When he found out on August 20, two days before the hearing, that his prosecutor had been blabbing all over the place about their rest home deal - he was furious.

By our count in the six days before the hearing, Wagstaffe told at least seven different stories to people, including a San Mateo Supervisor; two reporters and outraged parents, about what he was going to do with the Ayres case.

To one Supervisor he insisted that a retrial was a strong option. Less than 24 hours later he told the mother of a victim that a retrial was NOT an option because they couldn't justify the taxpayer's money. The next day, the day before the hearing, he told a reporter that they were still seriously considering a retrial.

The TWO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES who are already investigating Wagstaffe and his prosecutor for their misconduct on the Ayres case have already been notified about the DA's dirty tricks from last week.

 

[Mercyneal]

Actually we are aware of at least TWO government agencies who are investigating the San Mateo DA's office right now, and we have reason to believe that a THIRD is getting involved, too.

 

[Missizzy]

Mercyneal--I can assure you that Ayres had dealings with Golden Gate Regional Center. All children in the foster care system who have any level of special need or early intervention need have been evaluated for decades by the CA Regional Centers. That's one issue that the foster system usually makes sure is covered as children with high need will be deemed eligible for higher levels of Title IV-E foster care funds. In other words, the child gets more services and the counties get more funds to "oversee" them. The foster parents (almost always highly specialized) also get a higher stipend. A psychiatrist is always on the team of evaluators for each child. The CA Regional Centers serve children from birth to age 21.

I'm curious as to why Ayres would have been at a child's bedside at Belmont Hills. Was he called in for a psych consult for a physically ill child or was the child in a "behavioral unit" due to mental health issues? If Ayres had access to a "behavioral unit", that has me deeply worried. Those kids are the most vulnerable and least likely to be believed. They are also the most likely to be highly medicated with sedatives and psychotropics.

I'm all but certain that children in the foster care system are hospitalized far more than children in their families of origin--often to excess--as the counties tend to err on the side of caution. Ayres might have really banked on that fact.

 

[Mercyneal]

Missizzy: The boy at Belmont Hills was a private patient of Ayres. He had very wealthy parents. They sent him to Ayres for behavioral problems. Ayres kept him drugged up so he could barely stand and then sexually assaulted him in his office. Then he sent him to Belmont Hills and assaulted him there in his bed. He remembers lying in bed without his shirt on and Ayres coming in. Ayres started to rub his head. Then his hands moved down the boy's back. He kept going further down. At some point the boy blacked out.

The victim says that when he was in the hospital Ayres would visit him and buy him presents- Superman action figures; records, comic books. He told the victim that he was "going to bill his parents" for the presents but he never did.

After paying Ayres and Belmont Hills over a million dollars, the parents decided to sever their son's ties with Ayres. Ayres had made the boy worse. The boy became a crystal meth addict. He's been sober for a long time, but it's clear that Ayres destroyed his life.

 

[Mercyneal]

The blog that is monitoring www.sfredbook, where convicted felon Dr. Roger Levin from Menlo Park ( very close to where Ayres lives ) has run a secret forum where he bragged about molesting children, asks whether Ayres and Levin have ties.

http://notabarbieoratrophywife.blogspot.com/2011/08/william-ayres-recent-article-still-need.html

 

[Mercyneal]

In last week's surveillance report by the investigator hired by the families of victims to tail Ayres, the investigator stated that Ayres said to his lunchmates in San Francisco, " There were teenagers standing there with their pants down mooning some cars that were passing by the crowd."

He just can't keep away from the subject of boys with their pants pulled down.

Wonder what went through the minds of two doctors sitting with Ayres at lunch- Dr. Larry Lurie and Dr. Robert Kimmich. They have been two of Ayres' staunchest defenders. Did the comment give them pause for at least a moment? How they can defend a doctor who gave 13 year old boys alcohol laced with a drug and then raped them is beyond belief.

 

[ohiogirl]

The "evaluation" that the judge has ordered for Ayres at Golden Gate Regional Center (where it appears Ayres may have done some work) to decide where he is going a sham. It's pretty clear that the DA cut a deal two months ago to send Ayres to a cushy rest home. To give doctors only one week to evaluate Ayres is unheard of. Pretty clear they've already "evaluated " him. Normally it takes three to four weeks to evalute someone about which hospital they would go to.

Sounds like DA Wagstaffe panicked when presented with evidence by the private investigator last Friday that Ayres was mentally competent and has asked the judge to ram this process as fast as they can so the parents can't do any more damage to his little deal about Ayres being too incapicated to stand trial, and get him into a cushy rest home close to his house in San Mateo.

Since June 24, the prosecutor on this case has been telling families and victims since June 24 that Ayres will "never go to Napa" and that they are allowing Ayres' lawyer to look for a cushy rest home for him.

Wagstaffe,however has been trying to keep the rest home deal a secret from the public, because he knew they would be outraged. When he found out on August 20, two days before the hearing, that his prosecutor had been blabbing all over the place about their rest home deal - he was furious.

By our count in the six days before the hearing, Wagstaffe told at least seven different stories to people, including a San Mateo Supervisor; two reporters and outraged parents, about what he was going to do with the Ayres case.

To one Supervisor he insisted that a retrial was a strong option. Less than 24 hours later he told the mother of a victim that a retrial was NOT an option because they couldn't justify the taxpayer's money. The next day, the day before the hearing, he told a reporter that they were still seriously considering a retrial.

The TWO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES who are already investigating Wagstaffe and his prosecutor for their misconduct on the Ayres case have already been notified about the DA's dirty tricks from last week.

Why is Wagstaffe so hot to get this over with? What is up with him making deals and not letting this go to trial. Why?

 

[Mercyneal]

Wagstaffe is hot to get this over with because his OWN OFFICE hired Ayres to evaluate boys. Back in the 1980s, a prosecutor named Marta Diaz in the San Mateo DA's office frequently hired Ayres to evaluate boys. We believe other prosecutors in the DA's office hired Ayres as well

Then when Diaz became a juvenile judge, she sent hundreds of boys to Ayres.

In the fall of 2002, when the police first began to investigate Ayres, Diaz tried to get the police to stop investigating Ayres saying "Ayres and I are our friends."

We know that in 1979, Ayres gave a 13 year old boy in his office alcohol laced with a drug and then raped him. Ayres stated to the boy, "If you let me do this to you, I will make sure you don't go to Hillcrest Juvenile Hall."

Ayres was under contract to Hillcrest Juvenile Hall for at least thirty years. There are no doubt hundreds of more boys out there he raped with the promise of not sending them to juvenile hall.

Wagstaffe doesn't want the County to be held liable for millions in lawsuits had there been a conviction.

 

[believe09]

So what is happening now Mercy-retrial or concession by Wagstaffe's office to the "rest home" solution?