San Mateo County Under Fire for Negligence in Minor Sex Abuse Cases

San Mateo County is finally being sued due to negligence related to inaction in protecting minors in the San Mateo County Juvenile Detention system from institutional sexual molestation.

There are several cases now listed in San Mateo Superior Court related to institutional sexual abuse of minors provided by the County, including institutional representatives william h. ayres (convicted child molester) and now also Deputy Probation Officer john domeniconi (now deceased).

The lawsuits represent multiple victims who were minors being held in the County's juvenile detention system and who state that they were molested at the hands of psychiatric evaluator william ayres, or by probation officer domeniconi. 

The suits present that the County and specific (names redacted) County representatives failed to implement oversight and protocols to protect the children it was responsible to care for while they were in County custody.

 

When I first started writing this blog, I was primarily interested in getting information about the trials out to other victims, as there was a dearth of information available in the press, probably due to the "icky" nature of these crimes -- they really don't sell newspapers. And also probably because the majority of the local press mostly acts as the propaganda outlet for the County.

As time wore on, it became very apparent to me that the County was clearly feeling that while they were pressured (externally) to prosecute the case against ayres, they really preferred for it to just go away, due to ayres links with County agencies (such as the juvenile detention system) and a variety of the County's high-profile politicians like Fox and Gordon.  So really, none of this is a shock to me, but is a LONG time coming.

Here are some case numbers in the system. I've provided the complaint submissions in pdf formats, but for additional filings you can look at the County Court's search utility with the case numbers here:

https://www.sanmateocourt.org/online_services/odyssey_portals.php

The case against the County and officials relating to child molester william ayres is here:

Case 22-CIV-05492 (pdf)

A case against the County and officials relating to john domeniconi is here:

Case 22-CIV-05493 (pdf)

There are other related cases to the domeniconi case. I'll leave it to you to search these cases in the system linked above:

22-C1V-05397, 22-CIV-05402, 22-CIV-05404, 22-CIV-05405, 22-CIV-05493, 22—CIV-05494, 22—CIV-05495, 22-CIV-05496, 23-CIV—00033, 23-CIV-00034, 23-CIV-00035

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The San Mateo Daily Journal has printed (pdf) a brief article on the domeniconi related cases. 

The San Mateo Daily Journal has also printed an article in which the County says: "I know NOTHINGGGGG..." (pdf). 

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Victoria Balfour has been pursuing justice for the juveniles in the system who were abused by ayres for some time (she was talking about this well before ayres was found guilty) 

In 2016, she wrote an article which was published in "Prison Legal News" (pdf) detailing some of the victims of ayres she'd found within San Mateo County's juvenile justice system. She has continued research in the interim, and it looks like her diligent work may finally help to get San Mateo to finally pay for (if not correct) its long inaction in these matters.

On an ironic note, I'm told that Victoria contacted probation officer domeniconi during her research prior even to ayres' arrest in 2007. Not surprising then that ultimately, he was unhelpful in finding ayres' victims in the system.    

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On a final unrelated note: I finally found an obituary for william ayres. See the post immediately below this one.

william hamilton ayres was arrested on April 5, 2007 on charges relating to his molestation of many young boys while he was alleging to provide psychiatric care to private patients as well as referrals for evaluation from the juvenile court system in San Mateo County. After years of  playing demented for the courts, ayres plead "No Contest" and was found guilty of all charges against him on May 16, 2013. ayres was sentenced to 8 years in prison on August 26, 2013. ayres was no longer under the conservatorship of his daughter Barbara Jett (née Ayres) of Sacramento, CA. 

ayres has had significant interaction over the years with local politicians on boards like the "Children and Families First Commission,"  including the DA who was serving when prosecution began Jim Fox and Assemblyman Rich Gordon. In fact, Gordon nominated ayres for a lifetime achievement award for his "Tireless effort to improve the lives of children." ayres has also been vocally supported during his criminal trial by local head-shrinkers like Bart Blinder, Etta Bryant, Mel Blaustein, Harry Coren, Tom Ciesla, Robert Kimmich, Larry Lurie, Maria Lymberis, Richard Shadoan, Captane Thomson, and Harold Wallach. ayres was past president of both the Northern California Regional Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NCROCAP)  AND American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

The convicted child molester died in prison on April 20, 2016.

Child Molester ayres' Obituary

For quite some time, there's been no apparent trace of any obituary written for william ayres, the prolific child molester who died in prison. At some point recently, an old obit was either uploaded, or search engines found the early post. I came across it the other day. Here it is:

In the Northern California Psychiatric Society's "Psychiatric Physician" publication (Vol. 58, Issue No. 3 - May/June 2016) (click here for a pdf of the fish-wrapper) the society held in high regards the convicted child molester -- who used his practice and membership in organizations like this one as cover and to provide access to young boys to molest. 

They tout the accomplishments of the child molester including:

* His "pediatric internship at Yale New Haven Medical Center" 

* Examiner for both child and adolescent psychiatry

* Teaching at Mt. Zion, UCSF, Stanford

* Past Councilor and President of NCPS

* Past Councilor and President of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) (1993 to 1995)  - (see note at bottom of this post!)

* AACAP Delegation to China, Israel, Egypt, Kenya, USSR, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand

*Past Treasurer and President of Northern California Regional Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

They did leave a few things out though:

Northern California Psychiatric Society didn't seem interested in mentioning the facts that: 

* He'd died in prison after detrimentally impacting the lives of many innocent young boys, under cover of organizations like this one, and doing exactly the opposite of things that they claim to want to accomplish.

* And that he'd faked dementia to try to escape prison, and that he was documented having conversations with his peers (one of whom had published articles about Alzheimer's and its symptoms) about the advantages of claiming dementia around lawyers in his case.

* And that the reason he was in prison when he died was because he'd be found guilt on 8 separate counts of molesting young boys. 

* And the fact that he was grooming mental health patients for further abuse while he was in Napa (a mental health facility) faking his dementia.

* And that his license to practice had been revoked in 2012, well prior to this publication.

The obit was written by one of the child molester's long time supporters, Richard A Shadoan, MD. (cancelled medical license) who also was a signatory on the letter begging fellow shrinky-dinks for money to help the child molester pay for lawyers to help him get out of serving time for molesting his young male patients. A real stand-up guy this "Lil' Dick" Shadoan is -- glad he's not practicing his crap anymore. Hope he didn't hurt anyone (other than ayres' victims) too much.

Drooling Ass-Clown, Richard A Shadoan, MD

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In writing this post, I wanted to do some digging about the positions and dates that Dick ShaDumbass posted in his obit -- And came across something odd -- We've long reported that the child molester was president of AACAP in 93, and I even recall double-checking that before. But on doing a google and ChatGPT search, ayres is not listed at all in lists of former presidents. There appears to be a source document somewhere with "errors" related to 1993. 

Not sure why this is, and still trying to figure out if the source is actually AACAP or not -- The reported source of the list missing ayres is: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Medical_Students_and_Residents/About_AACAP/Past_Presidents.aspx    BUT -- This page appears to have now been removed since it was scanned as source information by google/ChatGPT. 

I DID find a blurry little poster in their history of  "The Fifth Decade" filed under "The 10th Decade (1992-2000)" that shows ayres as president in 1993:

william hamilton ayres was arrested on April 5, 2007 on charges relating to his molestation of many young boys while he was alleging to provide psychiatric care to private patients as well as referrals for evaluation from the juvenile court system in San Mateo County. After years of  playing demented for the courts, ayres plead "No Contest" and was found guilty of all charges against him on May 16, 2013. ayres was sentenced to 8 years in prison on August 26, 2013. ayres was no longer under the conservatorship of his daughter Barbara Jett (née Ayres) of Sacramento, CA. 

ayres has had significant interaction over the years with local politicians on boards like the "Children and Families First Commission,"  including the DA who was serving when prosecution began Jim Fox and Assemblyman Rich Gordon. In fact, Gordon nominated ayres for a lifetime achievement award for his "Tireless effort to improve the lives of children." ayres has also been vocally supported during his criminal trial by local head-shrinkers like Bart Blinder, Etta Bryant, Mel Blaustein, Harry Coren, Tom Ciesla, Robert Kimmich, Larry Lurie, Maria Lymberis, Richard Shadoan, Captane Thomson, and Harold Wallach.ayres was past president of both the Northern California Regional Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NCROCAP)  AND American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

The convicted child molester died in prison on April 20, 2016.