Child Psychiatrist Charged With Molesting

(CBS/AP)  More than three dozen former patients have accused a prominent child psychiatrist of molesting them, a prosecutor said Friday in persuading a judge to jail the man and triple his bail.

But CBS station KPIX correspondent Linda Yee reports some cases have passed the statute of limitations.

San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Melissa McKowan said she expects to add charges next week alleging that Dr. William Ayres molested four more boys who had been in his care, bringing the total to nine cases that can be prosecuted.

Ayres, already charged with molesting five boys, was jailed Friday after a judge raised his bail from $250,000 to $750,000.

McKowan had asked for $1.8 million bail, alleging that the doctor had a "30-year history of pedophiliac behavior."

She said 37 men had accused Ayres, a former president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, of molesting them since 1969.

Ayres was a highly regarded child psychiatrist who had hundreds of troubled children referred to him by the juvenile courts and child welfare agencies in the 1960s, reports Yee.

The statute of limitations for such crimes is 10 years, or until the victim turns 28 years old. Ayres, 75, retired from his practice last year.

Ayres is currently charged with 18 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, but that number is expected to grow, McKowan told the court Friday.

The doctor declined questions from reporters Thursday as he walked slowly in court, leaning heavily on a cane and wearing a wrinkled gray suit.

A defense lawyer who stood with him Friday said Ayres was in ill health, suffering from an aneurysm, back pain and gout, among other ailments.

The prominent psychiatrist had been honored in 2002 by the San Mateo board of supervisors with a lifetime achievement award for "his tireless effort to improve the lives of children and adolescents."

But suspicions have dogged him since 2003, when one former patient sued, accusing him of molesting him under the guise of a medical exam in the 1970s. Last August, police obtained Ayres' list of 800 private clients and began the search for potential victims, prompting the current prosecution, McKowan said.

McKowan said cases against pedophiles can be difficult to prove.

"I've been doing sexual assault long enough to know that people in a position of power who engage in this kind of conduct are very, very smart people who know how to pick their victims well," she said.

"The fact that we have so many victims is what gives us corroboration," she said. "That's what gives us a provable case."

[randalds]

You can't just call people "evildoers" when you know nothing about them. Or say we're "going to hell" as if you were God. Well, then again, you have that right but it makes you a phariseeical idiot who is ignorant and is too scared to look at the world in a more complex light because it could shatter their comfortable sense of a false reality.
Posted by ttinsly at 04:34 PM : Apr 15, 2007

Like I said man, they're trolls. No even the most loony toons religious nut believe what they do, so they're just saying it because they short stroke themselves whenever someone pays attention to them. It's a mental illness, a retardation of the brain, that makes them do and say ignorant things for attention. There are medications that help their particular illness, but I doubt their "mommies" even know what they're doing.

[agnim]

"You can't just call people "evildoers" when you know nothing about them.
Posted by ttinsly at 04:34 PM : Apr 15, 2007"

Oh? LOL

So when an individual makes it known that he's a filth-stirring f@ggot, is he not divulging 'knowledge' of himself, which readers can use to rightly classify him as an 'evildoer'? LOL

The thing about the mentally mixed up f@ggots is that their minds don't work so well, obviously; and therefore sound reasoning is wasted on them. LOL

This perverted psychiatrist should be Confined for the rest of his life; and if that doesn't put him out of the **** 'business', then he should be Castrated. And if Castration and Confinement together still do not work, then his genitals should be Cut out to go along with the confinement.

Other f@ggots should have the choice of Cure or Closet.

Those represent the Agnim's 5C treatments for homosexuals:

1. Cure (voluntary)
2. Closet until cured (voluntary)
3. Confinement until cured (forcible)
4. Castration
5. Cutting out genitalia.

You have a choice, Ttinsly; go for 1 and 2

[zootallures2]

Don't bother replying to Agnim. It's a common troll with nothing serious to say. All it does is to think of the most outrageous thing it can say to get attention. It's mentally ill that way.
Posted by RandalDS at 08:10 PM : Apr 14, 2007

Someone who tells you the truth or exposes what EVIL DOERS you are is a troll or conspiracy nut...

Doesn't change the facts or your fate in h e l l

[zootallures2]

PS. Just one example in Afghanistan, which is highly patriarchal and conservative. It is culturally acceptable for the Military fighters (who are all heterosexual) to openly have young boys serve as their sexual objects ...blah blah blah
Posted by ttinsly at 09:25 AM : Apr 14, 2007

You amerikkkan fa@s sure are full of sh*t.

It is guarranteed instant death in Islam to perform such an act.

[randalds]

Posted by ttinsly at 04:37 PM : Apr 14, 2007

Don't bother replying to Agnim. It's a common troll with nothing serious to say. All it does is to think of the most outrageous thing it can say to get attention. It's mentally ill that way.

[agnim]

Read the posts I wrote, and reflect on that issue, what makes pedofilia homosexuality, when pedofilia is not heterosexuality?
Posted by ttinsly at 04:37 PM : Apr 14, 2007

When a MALE seeks to 'mate' with another MALE, he's a f@ggot!

When it is an adult MALE who seeks to mate with a boy child (ANOTHER MALE), then he's STILL a filthy perverted f@ggot, a ****, IN ADDITION TO BEING a child sodomizer!

When the child is a female (the opposite gender), then you can call the pervert whatever you wish.

[agnim]

"..... what makes you guys link homosexuality to pedophilia.
Posted by ttinsly at 09:14 AM : Apr 14, 2007"

When the mating impulses are directed to SOMEONE OF THE SAME GENDER, REGARDLESS OF AGE, that mental illness is called homosexuality.

And when that mentally/behaviorally sick individual acts out the sickness, he's a filthy f@ggot!

We don't expect the deluded mind of the f@ggot to admit that the perverted psychiatrist in this article is a filth F@GGOT, since you are in denial!

[zootallures2]

Amerikans love their boiuyeees...

YOU ARE SICK! THE EVIL DOERS!!!

Well, you brains are in your a$$es!!!

[zootallures2]

Boys again. It's time to pass a law in the US for males to practice Hajib.

This country is a total piece of sh*t.

[booderhoo]

Hey agnim, it sounds like YOU are hiding some homosexual tendencies with your hated post. People that say untrue hatefull things the way you put it, usually is in the closet themselves.

Also, according to statistics, there are more adult men molesting little girls than adult men to little boys. BOTH are 110% horrific and terrible. They all should be thrown in jail forever!

Do not be an idiot and make ignorant statements that being homosexual has anything to do with this story. IT DOES NOT! As a straight male, my wife and I know several gay couples that are more important to society than some of my straight friends. My feelings have really changed about gay people. They have my vote for anything equality.