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Fmr Prez of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children
On Jul 22, 7:36 pm, "0:-]" wrote:
This, of course, is expected to prove among other things, that psychiatrists are prone to sexually abuse their patients, that they get into the field for that purpose primarily, that most of them are in it for the access to patient to sexually molest, and that all psychiatrists should have their licenses taken, and be barred from the practice of medicine. Do I have this about right, boys? Or possibly you had some other motive for posting it? Maybe just a warning not to go to this particular shrink, eh? What's your problem with this news story being posted Kane? What are you trying to protect and why? On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:17:50 GMT, and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote: Former President of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children Child psychiatrist faces new molest charges, is barred from seeing patients By John Cote, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (04-11) 15:57 PDT Redwood City - A San Mateo psychiatrist who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will face new charges of molesting former patients, prosecutors said today, broadening a case in which at least 30 men have accused the doctor of abuse dating back to 1969. The new charges against Dr. William Ayres, 75, will be filed Thursday, prosecutor Melissa McKowan said. They involve new victims, but McKowan declined to state how many. "We have received a lot of phone calls from people this last week," McKowan said. "There's still a lot of people to be interviewed." Prosecutors last week charged Ayres with 14 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old. The charges accuse the psychiatrist of masturbating three boys between 1991 and 1996 starting when the victims were ages 9, 11 and 12, court documents show. Those victims are all now in their 20s, court documents show. Charges could not be brought in other cases because they fall outside the statute of limitations, prosecutors said. California law requires that such accusers file charges by the time they turn 29 years old -- or that the conduct occurred after Jan. 1, 1988. The aging psychiatrist, once lauded by county officials for "his tireless effort to improve the lives of children," was arrested Thursday at his San Mateo home. A San Mateo County Superior Court magistrate today ordered Ayres to have no contact with a list of alleged victims that prosecutors submitted. The document was ordered sealed at prosecutors' request, but McKowan later said it contained 30 names, including the alleged victims in the current charges, the men Ayres will be charged with tomorrow and Ayres' accusers whose cases fall outside the statute of limitations. All of the alleged victims are male, McKowan said. Ayres, who was released from jail Monday after posting $250,000 in bail, said little during a brief court appearance today in a Redwood City courtroom. He did not object to a request from the state Medical Board that he be barred from seeing patients until further court order. The psychiatrist, in a gray suit and walking with a twisted wooden cane, was accompanied from the courthouse by his wife and another woman. For decades, the bearded Ayres was a prominent figure in San Mateo County mental health circles. He served with San Mateo County District Attorney Jim Fox and Supervisor Richard Gordon on the county's Children and Families First Commission, and received dozens of patient referrals from the San Mateo County juvenile justice system, records show. One retired juvenile court judge estimated she had referred up to 200 cases involving juvenile sex offenders to Ayres during her years on the bench. -From 1993 to 1995, Ayres served as president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the leading professional medical association for child psychiatrists with more than 7,500 members nationwide. In a civil lawsuit brought in 2003 against Ayres and his medical group, Peninsula Psychiatric Associates, attorneys for the former patient accused the psychiatrist of exploiting his position of power and trust to prey upon young boys who were patients. Ayres told one of the men he is charged with molesting that no one would believe him if he complained about the psychiatrist's conduct, according to prosecutors. Ayres' arrest follows years of accusations against the doctor that raised red flags but never amounted to a criminal case. It was only after New York journalist Victoria Balfour persuaded a friend to go to San Mateo police after telling her Ayres had molested him that the case began to get traction. Balfour tracked down other alleged victims and turned that information over to police. Ultimately, authorities obtained a search warrant in March 2006 for Ayres' medical records. The records produced a list of 800 names of former patients whose contact with Ayres could fall within current statutes of limitations, police said. Police interviewed the patients and identified alleged victims, which led to the current prosecution. Some of the other accusations, documented in public records but which never led to criminal charges, include: o At least five men, none of whom is an alleged victim in the criminal case, have claimed that Ayres molested them in their youth, according to police reports, civil depositions and a Child Protective Services report. o One of those former patients sued Ayres in December 2003, accusing the psychiatrist of masturbating him under the guise of a medical exam on multiple occasions in the late 1970s when the patient was 13 years old. The case was settled confidentially in 2005. o Police investigated at least two other molestation reports against Ayres before the 2003 lawsuit, records and deposition transcripts show. One was determined to be "unfounded" in 1987, and the alleged victim in the other didn't cooperate with police, according to those records and statements. o At least two other men came forward separately in 2005 saying Ayres had also molested them as teens in the 1960s and 1970s, but the cases could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired, police reports show. One of those former patients, whose name was redacted from the report, told San Mateo police he arrived early for an appointment one day and saw another teenage boy emerge from Ayres' office. "The victim said the look on the other boy's face was like, 'He's going to do it to you, too,' " the report read. The lawsuit contended the alleged victim, referred to in court documents as James Doe, was not Ayres' first molestation victim. The lawsuit alleged "there were at least four others, and possibly more." The two sides reached a confidential settlement in July 2005, after which Ayres' attorney said the psychiatrist did not concede any wrongdoing. Ayres said under oath that he didn't remember the alleged victim and denied molesting him, according to a transcript of his deposition in the lawsuit. "It is very common that I'll be having lunch and a person in their 30s will come up to me and say, 'Aren't you Dr. Ayres? I wanted to thank you again for the help,' " Ayres said in his deposition. "I'll look at them, and I won't know who the hell they are. It turns out I saw them when they were in seventh grade." Ayres also acknowledged he sometimes conducted physical examinations of juvenile patients, according to the transcript. "I do not think there is any standard of care that says it's inappropriate for a physician who is a child psychiatrist, that they should not do physical examinations," Ayres said, according to the transcript. He said the county's juvenile justice system, its court- appointed attorney program, pediatricians and social workers all referred patients to him for years, and he estimated in 2004 that he had seen about 2,000 patients in 40 years of practice in the county. He evaluated a patient referred by juvenile court Judge Marta Diaz as recently as March 2003, even though San Mateo police or the county social services department had received at least three complaints of molestation by that time, records show. More at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...G32P6O4H12.DTL |
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Fmr Prez of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested formolesting children
Greegor wrote:
On Jul 22, 7:36 pm, "0:-]" wrote: This, of course, is expected to prove among other things, that psychiatrists are prone to sexually abuse their patients, that they get into the field for that purpose primarily, that most of them are in it for the access to patient to sexually molest, and that all psychiatrists should have their licenses taken, and be barred from the practice of medicine. Do I have this about right, boys? Or possibly you had some other motive for posting it? Maybe just a warning not to go to this particular shrink, eh? What's your problem with this news story being posted Kane? None at all. As long as the poster, who has a history here, is not trying to suggest that all psychiatrists, or even a majority, are like this, and get into the field for the purpose of having access to vulnerable clients. Jai is a well known fraud poster. He is not Indian, or from any other subcontinent country. While I use an Hawaiian name, I clearly post that I am not Hawaiian by birth. Jai pretends he's a 'guru.' He puts of a string of these, just like fx runs a string of posts, to attempt to discredit a profession. So tell me do you think he was doing that with this post? What are you trying to protect and why? You ask me a question, and before I can answer it, you ask me another that is supposed to presume my response...that I am protecting the person named in the article? How ethical is that, Greg? I'm not protecting anyone. I am though pointing out, as I did, that you cannot judge an entire profession by the actions of a person in it. Or even more persons in it. I doubt the rate of abuse of clients is any greater for shrinks than it is for dentists, Greg. But if you have figures that support a different assumption, say that shrinks DO more often sexually abuse than other professions where the patient or client is vulnerable, do feel free, yah hear? Or do you have a thing about all professionals, Greg? I'm beginning to think so. Seems a profession can't be mentioned that you don't have a war story about, or a claim of corruption and malicious intent. Don't YOU try to discredit CPS by focusing on YOUR case with various claims? Don't you want everyone that comes here to be a raving maniac like you when the letters 'CPS' appear in a post? Or are you now ready to admit that most caseworkers are not evil demons of darkness? Or didn't you mean that in the first place? I'm so confused about your goals and tactics, Greg. You are a wonder to behold, that's for sure. Abused any new families coming here lately, Greg? I see that last one you jumped on is missing. We ask them "what's up," to start with. You ask them WHY THEY ****ED UP SO as to engage with CPS. Great start, Greg, great start, and really really encourages them to stick around for your next little session of abuse. You looking for masochists, are you? What's that say about our motives if you are? Try to keep Jai around. You NEED another thug on your side given what's coming down the pike. 0:] On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:17:50 GMT, and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote: Former President of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children Child psychiatrist faces new molest charges, is barred from seeing patients By John Cote, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (04-11) 15:57 PDT Redwood City - A San Mateo psychiatrist who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will face new charges of molesting former patients, prosecutors said today, broadening a case in which at least 30 men have accused the doctor of abuse dating back to 1969. The new charges against Dr. William Ayres, 75, will be filed Thursday, prosecutor Melissa McKowan said. They involve new victims, but McKowan declined to state how many. "We have received a lot of phone calls from people this last week," McKowan said. "There's still a lot of people to be interviewed." Prosecutors last week charged Ayres with 14 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old. The charges accuse the psychiatrist of masturbating three boys between 1991 and 1996 starting when the victims were ages 9, 11 and 12, court documents show. Those victims are all now in their 20s, court documents show. Charges could not be brought in other cases because they fall outside the statute of limitations, prosecutors said. California law requires that such accusers file charges by the time they turn 29 years old -- or that the conduct occurred after Jan. 1, 1988. The aging psychiatrist, once lauded by county officials for "his tireless effort to improve the lives of children," was arrested Thursday at his San Mateo home. A San Mateo County Superior Court magistrate today ordered Ayres to have no contact with a list of alleged victims that prosecutors submitted. The document was ordered sealed at prosecutors' request, but McKowan later said it contained 30 names, including the alleged victims in the current charges, the men Ayres will be charged with tomorrow and Ayres' accusers whose cases fall outside the statute of limitations. All of the alleged victims are male, McKowan said. Ayres, who was released from jail Monday after posting $250,000 in bail, said little during a brief court appearance today in a Redwood City courtroom. He did not object to a request from the state Medical Board that he be barred from seeing patients until further court order. The psychiatrist, in a gray suit and walking with a twisted wooden cane, was accompanied from the courthouse by his wife and another woman. For decades, the bearded Ayres was a prominent figure in San Mateo County mental health circles. He served with San Mateo County District Attorney Jim Fox and Supervisor Richard Gordon on the county's Children and Families First Commission, and received dozens of patient referrals from the San Mateo County juvenile justice system, records show. One retired juvenile court judge estimated she had referred up to 200 cases involving juvenile sex offenders to Ayres during her years on the bench. -From 1993 to 1995, Ayres served as president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the leading professional medical association for child psychiatrists with more than 7,500 members nationwide. In a civil lawsuit brought in 2003 against Ayres and his medical group, Peninsula Psychiatric Associates, attorneys for the former patient accused the psychiatrist of exploiting his position of power and trust to prey upon young boys who were patients. Ayres told one of the men he is charged with molesting that no one would believe him if he complained about the psychiatrist's conduct, according to prosecutors. Ayres' arrest follows years of accusations against the doctor that raised red flags but never amounted to a criminal case. It was only after New York journalist Victoria Balfour persuaded a friend to go to San Mateo police after telling her Ayres had molested him that the case began to get traction. Balfour tracked down other alleged victims and turned that information over to police. Ultimately, authorities obtained a search warrant in March 2006 for Ayres' medical records. The records produced a list of 800 names of former patients whose contact with Ayres could fall within current statutes of limitations, police said. Police interviewed the patients and identified alleged victims, which led to the current prosecution. Some of the other accusations, documented in public records but which never led to criminal charges, include: o At least five men, none of whom is an alleged victim in the criminal case, have claimed that Ayres molested them in their youth, according to police reports, civil depositions and a Child Protective Services report. o One of those former patients sued Ayres in December 2003, accusing the psychiatrist of masturbating him under the guise of a medical exam on multiple occasions in the late 1970s when the patient was 13 years old. The case was settled confidentially in 2005. o Police investigated at least two other molestation reports against Ayres before the 2003 lawsuit, records and deposition transcripts show. One was determined to be "unfounded" in 1987, and the alleged victim in the other didn't cooperate with police, according to those records and statements. o At least two other men came forward separately in 2005 saying Ayres had also molested them as teens in the 1960s and 1970s, but the cases could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired, police reports show. One of those former patients, whose name was redacted from the report, told San Mateo police he arrived early for an appointment one day and saw another teenage boy emerge from Ayres' office. "The victim said the look on the other boy's face was like, 'He's going to do it to you, too,' " the report read. The lawsuit contended the alleged victim, referred to in court documents as James Doe, was not Ayres' first molestation victim. The lawsuit alleged "there were at least four others, and possibly more." The two sides reached a confidential settlement in July 2005, after which Ayres' attorney said the psychiatrist did not concede any wrongdoing. Ayres said under oath that he didn't remember the alleged victim and denied molesting him, according to a transcript of his deposition in the lawsuit. "It is very common that I'll be having lunch and a person in their 30s will come up to me and say, 'Aren't you Dr. Ayres? I wanted to thank you again for the help,' " Ayres said in his deposition. "I'll look at them, and I won't know who the hell they are. It turns out I saw them when they were in seventh grade." Ayres also acknowledged he sometimes conducted physical examinations of juvenile patients, according to the transcript. "I do not think there is any standard of care that says it's inappropriate for a physician who is a child psychiatrist, that they should not do physical examinations," Ayres said, according to the transcript. He said the county's juvenile justice system, its court- appointed attorney program, pediatricians and social workers all referred patients to him for years, and he estimated in 2004 that he had seen about 2,000 patients in 40 years of practice in the county. He evaluated a patient referred by juvenile court Judge Marta Diaz as recently as March 2003, even though San Mateo police or the county social services department had received at least three complaints of molestation by that time, records show. More at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...G32P6O4H12.DTL |
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Fmr Prez of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:43:21 -0700, "0:]"
wrote: Greegor wrote: On Jul 22, 7:36 pm, "0:-]" wrote: This, of course, is expected to prove among other things, that psychiatrists are prone to sexually abuse their patients, that they get into the field for that purpose primarily, that most of them are in it for the access to patient to sexually molest, and that all psychiatrists should have their licenses taken, and be barred from the practice of medicine. Do I have this about right, boys? Or possibly you had some other motive for posting it? Maybe just a warning not to go to this particular shrink, eh? What's your problem with this news story being posted Kane? You blind, sonny? "This, of course, is expected to prove among other things, that psychiatrists are prone to sexually abuse their patients, that they get into the field for that purpose primarily, that most of them are in it for the access to patient to sexually molest, and that all psychiatrists should have their licenses taken, and be barred from the practice of medicine. Do I have this about right, boys? Or possibly you had some other motive for posting it? Maybe just a warning not to go to this particular shrink, eh?" Do you actually have anything to say that is in defense of the post? If so, why not say it and quite asking others to do it for you? 0:] On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:17:50 GMT, and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote: Former President of American Academy of Child Psychiatry arrested for molesting children Child psychiatrist faces new molest charges, is barred from seeing patients By John Cote, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, April 11, 2007 (04-11) 15:57 PDT Redwood City - A San Mateo psychiatrist who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will face new charges of molesting former patients, prosecutors said today, broadening a case in which at least 30 men have accused the doctor of abuse dating back to 1969. The new charges against Dr. William Ayres, 75, will be filed Thursday, prosecutor Melissa McKowan said. They involve new victims, but McKowan declined to state how many. "We have received a lot of phone calls from people this last week," McKowan said. "There's still a lot of people to be interviewed." Prosecutors last week charged Ayres with 14 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old. The charges accuse the psychiatrist of masturbating three boys between 1991 and 1996 starting when the victims were ages 9, 11 and 12, court documents show. Those victims are all now in their 20s, court documents show. Charges could not be brought in other cases because they fall outside the statute of limitations, prosecutors said. California law requires that such accusers file charges by the time they turn 29 years old -- or that the conduct occurred after Jan. 1, 1988. The aging psychiatrist, once lauded by county officials for "his tireless effort to improve the lives of children," was arrested Thursday at his San Mateo home. A San Mateo County Superior Court magistrate today ordered Ayres to have no contact with a list of alleged victims that prosecutors submitted. The document was ordered sealed at prosecutors' request, but McKowan later said it contained 30 names, including the alleged victims in the current charges, the men Ayres will be charged with tomorrow and Ayres' accusers whose cases fall outside the statute of limitations. All of the alleged victims are male, McKowan said. Ayres, who was released from jail Monday after posting $250,000 in bail, said little during a brief court appearance today in a Redwood City courtroom. He did not object to a request from the state Medical Board that he be barred from seeing patients until further court order. The psychiatrist, in a gray suit and walking with a twisted wooden cane, was accompanied from the courthouse by his wife and another woman. For decades, the bearded Ayres was a prominent figure in San Mateo County mental health circles. He served with San Mateo County District Attorney Jim Fox and Supervisor Richard Gordon on the county's Children and Families First Commission, and received dozens of patient referrals from the San Mateo County juvenile justice system, records show. One retired juvenile court judge estimated she had referred up to 200 cases involving juvenile sex offenders to Ayres during her years on the bench. -From 1993 to 1995, Ayres served as president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the leading professional medical association for child psychiatrists with more than 7,500 members nationwide. In a civil lawsuit brought in 2003 against Ayres and his medical group, Peninsula Psychiatric Associates, attorneys for the former patient accused the psychiatrist of exploiting his position of power and trust to prey upon young boys who were patients. Ayres told one of the men he is charged with molesting that no one would believe him if he complained about the psychiatrist's conduct, according to prosecutors. Ayres' arrest follows years of accusations against the doctor that raised red flags but never amounted to a criminal case. It was only after New York journalist Victoria Balfour persuaded a friend to go to San Mateo police after telling her Ayres had molested him that the case began to get traction. Balfour tracked down other alleged victims and turned that information over to police. Ultimately, authorities obtained a search warrant in March 2006 for Ayres' medical records. The records produced a list of 800 names of former patients whose contact with Ayres could fall within current statutes of limitations, police said. Police interviewed the patients and identified alleged victims, which led to the current prosecution. Some of the other accusations, documented in public records but which never led to criminal charges, include: o At least five men, none of whom is an alleged victim in the criminal case, have claimed that Ayres molested them in their youth, according to police reports, civil depositions and a Child Protective Services report. o One of those former patients sued Ayres in December 2003, accusing the psychiatrist of masturbating him under the guise of a medical exam on multiple occasions in the late 1970s when the patient was 13 years old. The case was settled confidentially in 2005. o Police investigated at least two other molestation reports against Ayres before the 2003 lawsuit, records and deposition transcripts show. One was determined to be "unfounded" in 1987, and the alleged victim in the other didn't cooperate with police, according to those records and statements. o At least two other men came forward separately in 2005 saying Ayres had also molested them as teens in the 1960s and 1970s, but the cases could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired, police reports show. One of those former patients, whose name was redacted from the report, told San Mateo police he arrived early for an appointment one day and saw another teenage boy emerge from Ayres' office. "The victim said the look on the other boy's face was like, 'He's going to do it to you, too,' " the report read. The lawsuit contended the alleged victim, referred to in court documents as James Doe, was not Ayres' first molestation victim. The lawsuit alleged "there were at least four others, and possibly more." The two sides reached a confidential settlement in July 2005, after which Ayres' attorney said the psychiatrist did not concede any wrongdoing. Ayres said under oath that he didn't remember the alleged victim and denied molesting him, according to a transcript of his deposition in the lawsuit. "It is very common that I'll be having lunch and a person in their 30s will come up to me and say, 'Aren't you Dr. Ayres? I wanted to thank you again for the help,' " Ayres said in his deposition. "I'll look at them, and I won't know who the hell they are. It turns out I saw them when they were in seventh grade." Ayres also acknowledged he sometimes conducted physical examinations of juvenile patients, according to the transcript. "I do not think there is any standard of care that says it's inappropriate for a physician who is a child psychiatrist, that they should not do physical examinations," Ayres said, according to the transcript. He said the county's juvenile justice system, its court- appointed attorney program, pediatricians and social workers all referred patients to him for years, and he estimated in 2004 that he had seen about 2,000 patients in 40 years of practice in the county. He evaluated a patient referred by juvenile court Judge Marta Diaz as recently as March 2003, even though San Mateo police or the county social services department had received at least three complaints of molestation by that time, records show. More at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...G32P6O4H12.DTL |
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