Three mothers of victims had a meeting with prosecutor's superior Melissa Mckowan yesterday. One mother reported feeling dissatisfied, grumpy and frustrated with Guidotti's response.
The detective Rick Decker was in attendance. He said they didn't call on the Boston doctors was that Ayres said at the trial he was trained at Yale to do physicals. Huh?So what?
That point is moot. Ayres didn't study child psychiatry at Yale. Child psychiatrists at Yale are not trained to do physicals. The only place where Ayres studied child psychiatry was in Boston, at Judge Baker. AYRES TESTIFIED that the only place he trained in child psychiatry was at Judge Baker in 2004, in his deposition. He said of his work at Judge Baker"Well, we would be assigned cases of families. We would interview the families. We would interview children, and we would then treat the children if - if it continued on into treatment, which it usually- I think they were initially screened by the social work department as to whether it was an appropriate case. And then we were supervised twice a week by two different senior faculty members.
Further down in the transcript " And so they would - and we had to attend lots of conferences, some of which were didactic to learn about various things. And we were- so we were exposed to a lot of what was then current, you know, child psychiatric."
Nowhere in this 2004 deposition does Ayres say he studied child psychiatry at Yale. Nowhere. This is the same deposition the prosecutor quoted from freely at the trial.
Also at the trial Ayres went on and on about how he trained in child psychiatry at Judge Baker.
Not ONCE does he say he trained at Yale in child psychiatry at Yale. He said he had one year of pediatrics there, where a child psychiatrist trained him to do physicals. We know this is a lie, but the point is moot because he DIDN't study child psychiatry.
At the trial, the prosecutor didn't know that he didn't study child psychiatry at Yale and so she didn't challenge him.
It all comes down to whether CHILD PSYCHIATRISTS AT JUDGE BAKER WERE TRAINED TO DO PHYSICALS. Mckowan either never bothered to look into it or somehow, mysteriously was unable to get doctors who trained with Ayres to say they weren't trained to do physicals, while somehow, miraculously, Mike Manekin from the County Times was able to get them to confirm that they didn't do physicals.
She also told a victim and reporter Victoria Balfour that the Boston doctors' stories about their not being trained to give physical exams didn't check out. Dr. Amati Mehler doesn't recall ever being contacted by the DA's office. Furthermore, she said they weren't trained to do physicals. Dr. Joseph Mullen told Michael Manekin, the reporter for the San Mateo County Times in November 2007 that he was not trained to do physicals on boys in therapy at Judge Baker.
At this meeting yesterday, the prosecutor's boss didn't address the fact that Mckowan said under her own name that she contacted all of the doctors and they couldn't confirm what they told her. Also not addressed was Mckowan's statement that Amati Mehler couldn't travel.
The excuse Guidotti gave about Mckowan not calling Dr. Brown, who trained with Ayres at Yale? Mckowan "misspoke" and was confusing Brown with a Judge Baker doctor who never called her back. Huh? Mckowan said in her blog statement that she talked to all the doctors. This is the first anyone's heard of anyone not calling her back from Judge Baker. And the mother asked Mckowan in June "Did you call that doctor who trained with Ayres at YALE?" How do you confuse a name like Brown with Amati-Mehler, Ditmore, Mullen or Walzer? She also said they couldn't use Brown because he trained with Yale at Ayres. Huh? They supposedly contacted the other doctors who trained with Ayres at Boston.
Also, at the trial, they brought in a rebuttal child psychiatrist who trained at Stanford who said that child psychiatrists were not trained to do physicals on kids. Why didn't they bring on someone from Judge Baker, the place where Ayres trained to do this?
Guidotti also praised Mckowan as a wonderful prosecutor who is doing a fine job. She did apologize to the mother of a victim for Mckowan's rude behavior to her and for falsely accusing her of leaking information to the Ayres blog.
No prosecutor at any time should be falsely accusing a prosecution witness of such acts, nor scolding them or rebuking them. Not only is Guidotti enabling the prosecutor to continue with her lies, but now she is babying her and enabling her.
I feel bad for Guidotti. She's a nice person, and sharp. But she's being snookered by Mckowan. My gut tells me that if Mckowan can make denigrate her other boss Steve Wagstaffe, in a loud voice, in the courtroom, in front of mothers of victims that "Steve doesn't know what he's talking about" that she will sell Guidotti down the river to save her too.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs when Guidotti is defending Mckowan. Watch: she will be burned by Mckowan too.
