Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the death of an Ayres victim, from alcohol abuse. He left behind many, many friends. I met some of them at a memorial party last March. I remember how they all talked about his unique laugh.
Sadly, in the five years that I knew this victim, who shall remain anonymous - I never heard him laugh once. I did however, hear him cry on a number of occasions -- always when we were discussing Ayres. The pain in his voice was so acute that it would haunt me for days afterward. In the summer and fall of 2005, when there was no police case against Ayres and it looked as if there never would be, it was the grief and pain in this victim's voice more than anything that made me to resolve to fight for the victims and to try to get a criminal case going against Ayres.
In March 2011, at his memorial party, I learned that before he died, the Ayres victim alleged to his counselor at rehab and to some of his closest childhood friends that when he was about 12, Ayres had given him alcohol laced with a drug and then raped him. His friends told me that the victim recounted how Ayres had said to him, "If you let me do this to you, I will make sure you won't go to juvenile hall."
How many other juveniles did Ayres ply with alcohol and drugs and then violently assault ? How many are afraid to come forward?
Thousands, most likely. Ayres started working for the juvenile courts in San Mateo almost immediately after moving to California in 1963. We know that former Juvenile Judge Marta Diaz was sending boys to Ayres up until December 2003, when the first molestation civil suit against Ayres was filed. (This is the same Judge Diaz who, according to San Mateo DA Steve Wagstaffe told the police to "stop investigating Ayres" in the fall of 2002, as she and Ayres were" friends.") The fact that San Mateo County was paying Ayres all of those years to molest and rape juveniles like this victim is just mind boggling, and the fact that they have so far been disinclined to look at their own role here is just as shocking.
I am glad I got a chance to tell the Ayres victim before he died about that for all of his aloofness with the police who were investigating Ayres, he nevertheless was a key lynchpin in this case. I believe that in his death he is continuing to be a strong motivating force for justice. If there are any victims who were molested as juveniles in Boston or California, and for whom this victim's story resonates, please come forward.
Finally, I want to thank Deputy Police Chief Mike Callagy for paying the Ayres victim a visit at his home just before he died, to offer his help.
If you were assaulted by Ayres at Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston; Boston Children's Hospital or Rosslindale Detention Center in Massachusetts between the years of 1959-1963, please contact
Sgt. Detective Robin Demarco at the Boston Police Department's Crimes Against Children Unit:
Office number: 617-343-6186 or 617-343-6183.
Email: DemarcoR.bpd@cityofboston.gov.
Photos of Ayres as he looked at a younger age (around the time he was in Boston):
Despite Guidotti's bogus statement to the Daily Journal that if Ayres goes any place, it will be back to San Mateo County for trial, the fact is that on August 20, 2011, Guidotti's boss Steve Wagstaffe stated in absolute terms to the mother of a victim that they would NOT retry him again because he couldn't justify it to the taxpayers to spend the money again for a competency retrial...
ReplyDeleteHow then does Wagstaffe justify the hundreds of thousands of dollars the San Mateo County taxpayers shelled out to have Ayres molest and rape boys? Wagstaffe's office used Ayres too. Former DA Jim Fox was a counselor at Hillcrest in the 1960s. One of Fox's juveniles was molested by Ayres. But when this victim called, emailed and wrote to Jim Fox just three months ago to talk about what Ayres had done at Hillcrest, Fox refused to respond.
Who watches the watcher's?
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Those with clout have already been paid.
DeleteLooks like someone better sic the Justice Department on San Mateo's failure to investigate how many juveniles were molested by Ayres:
ReplyDeleteAlberta Officials Reach Out to Patients of Accused Doc
Wed Feb. 09 2011 04:30:03
The Canadian Press
CALGARY — Alberta's Justice Department plans to send letters to everyone who has ever undergone a court-ordered exam by a prominent Calgary psychiatrist who is facing sexual assault allegations from more than 20 of his former patients.
The letters notify former patients, some of whom are still in jail, that Dr. Aubrey Levin has been charged with sex crimes and ask anyone else with concerns to come forward.
Levin, 72, was frequently used by the courts to assess people and provide expert opinions at hearings. He was arrested last March and has since been charged with assaulting 21 male patients, most of whom, police say, where ordered to see him by a judge.
Alberta Justice is reviewing all criminal cases in which Levin offered testimony to ensure there were no miscarriages of justice. As part of that process, spokesman Josh Stewart says the Crown has reached out to everyone who was ordered to be under Levin's care.