tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post7765732073747930759..comments2024-02-24T18:44:39.324-08:00Comments on Trials & Tribulations: The Mandated ReporterSprockethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03837416113512618694noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-10718846077975020252009-06-30T07:54:23.587-07:002009-06-30T07:54:23.587-07:00I think Sprocket is going to hit the one million m...I think Sprocket is going to hit the one million mark in hits today. Congratulations!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-51888466729785054922009-06-28T15:32:47.594-07:002009-06-28T15:32:47.594-07:00DS, thank you for your input. It means a great dea...DS, thank you for your input. It means a great deal to me and will be instrumental in pushing me out of bed tomorrow morning and heading to the Caltrain station and getting on the 8:03 baby bullet. <br /><br />I hope Melissa McKowan did a bit of relaxing so she's as gentle as she was with the six in-statute former patients, but as fired up as she was on Friday when Weinberg got too ridiculous.CaliGirl9https://www.blogger.com/profile/06639398512708841968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-53185238914322807452009-06-28T09:49:14.859-07:002009-06-28T09:49:14.859-07:00At the beginning of your article you say:
I thoug...At the beginning of your article you say:<br /><br /><i>I thought back to my own career and wondered if I’d ever crossed that line. I used to do most of my work in two areas: maternal/child (specifically labor and delivery) and ER. Obviously when monitoring a pregnant woman and her baby in labor requires plenty of intimate touching. Had I ever crossed the line?</i><br /><br />You should know that the line is very clear, and if you’re asking yourself honestly if you’ve ever crossed it, I’m pretty sure that you have never crossed it. <br /><br />I’ve seen and heard the argument that the juvenile patients were mis-interpreting medical examination as a sexual touch. I can see how this might be the case if it were actually ambiguous, as you wonder above, but I can tell you that there is no ambiguity about what ayres was doing. <br />As it happens, I was having a set of actual medical procedures done at one point after I had been seeing ayres for awhile, and they were NOTHING near the intensity of the procedure that ayres was mimicking in order to cover his molestation. I was not present at the trial when the victims were speaking of their experiences, but I can easily recall my recounting of my visits to the police, not so very long ago, and my description was of necessity very clinical and detached. If these other victims are going through what I did, it will probably SOUND a bit like there was a fine line, and that the molestations were very similar to actual medical examinations. This is simply not the case. These were not simply unnecessary urine tests, physical examinations and proctologic examinations, they were intense, lengthy, and deliberate invasions, with the STATED goal of achieving ejaculation. <br /><br />I think the “clinical” environment of courtroom may be stifling a bit of clarity. I think that most observers should be coming away with the understanding that the victims, even though they may say that “at first I thought it was just a medical examination,” clearly understand as older adults that these molestations were significantly outside the realm of the medical profession. <br /><br />If anyone is coming away with the impression that these may have been botched or simply unnecessary medical examinations, then someone is not doing a very good job of explaining what the victims are going through even as they sit in the courtroom.<br /><br /><br />By the way… Thank you VERY much for your coverage of this case. Every piece of information that gets out there is important to me. (And don’t lose sleep over medical exams that don’t go quite right… the line simply is not gray enough to be mis-interpreted like the defense and the few ayres supporters would like to have you believe .)Deep Soundinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15111463003069045187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-61333234323714630862009-06-27T22:33:20.694-07:002009-06-27T22:33:20.694-07:00A San Mateo resident just received a very defensiv...A San Mateo resident just received a very defensive letter from Chief Deputy DA Steve Wagstaffe saying that his office had no control to fight for Balfour to get back into the courtroom as a journalist. Then why did he email Balfour and tell her he had tried to get her back into the courtroom. Something's really not right here with the DA's story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-59419143989822954972009-06-27T13:28:18.478-07:002009-06-27T13:28:18.478-07:00This is excellent reporting, and also very informa...This is excellent reporting, and also very informative about what should and should not be permitted with pediatricians and the like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-71545232202078050712009-06-27T09:27:18.003-07:002009-06-27T09:27:18.003-07:00How come Weinberg takes on defending child molesto...How come Weinberg takes on defending child molestors, isn't he afraid he will get type cast, hehe? Maybe he finds it challenging. I guess he is just waiting for his next case.....probably another child molester or maybe the doctor who left his BMW and ran away from the scene at Michael Jackson's. Odd that doctor would abandon his BMW and run.......I suppose Oxycontin had something to do with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-5699962591942334832009-06-27T08:55:46.931-07:002009-06-27T08:55:46.931-07:00I am beginning to think Whiney regrets having take...I am beginning to think Whiney regrets having taken the Ayres case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-74145234429000584922009-06-27T08:54:24.287-07:002009-06-27T08:54:24.287-07:00The exclusion of journalist Victoria Balfour has n...The exclusion of journalist Victoria Balfour has now reached the mainstream press:<br />San Mateo County Times: <br /><br />http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_12700652<br /><br /> The contributors at www.williamayreswatch,blogspot.com thank Sprocket for their interest and superb coverage in the case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-45693739055743960552009-06-27T08:48:46.003-07:002009-06-27T08:48:46.003-07:00The lip thing. I tend to think it is more of an u...The lip thing. I tend to think it is more of an unconscious habit he's had for a long time. <br /><br />When I was attending the Spector trial, there were times when it seemed to me that he realized he was doing it and tried to stop.Sprockethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03837416113512618694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-80941026903688838622009-06-27T08:35:33.707-07:002009-06-27T08:35:33.707-07:00Children never ask for a shot do they? Everybody k...Children never ask for a shot do they? Everybody knows that. I recall taking my children to the peditrician and as they were on the exam table just a quick look under the diaper. The child could not tell if this person was going to change the diaper, but never ever when my kids were children did a peditrician touch their gentials. This thing about Ayres looking for poison oak or a rash, be real, how common is that? You may also have poison oak on your arms! You don't need to look at just the genitals. It is pretty clear this is a pedophile who likes to look at litle boys and would use any excuse he could to get them undressed and take advantage of them. It also doesn't sound like Doron Weinberg is headed in the right direction with a memory expert. If some of the medical records already state Ayres weighed urine and he had no private bathroom in his office then it is not a false memory that the child urinated in front of him!<br />Doesn't sound like the memories are the problem here.........if appears Ayres could not find another MD who was doing the same gentital exams. No girls ever, ever got an exam of their private parts? Oh yeah, there are some big red flags!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-80099739283316727072009-06-27T08:29:09.914-07:002009-06-27T08:29:09.914-07:00In our first anonymous comment about the juveniles...In our first anonymous comment about the juveniles, we meant to say that perhaps they are not coming forward because they fear being arrested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-64878415861427896212009-06-27T08:27:34.255-07:002009-06-27T08:27:34.255-07:00When Whiney does that "thing with his lips&qu...When Whiney does that "thing with his lips" it means he knows he is in deep trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-27039595214601898472009-06-27T08:21:56.713-07:002009-06-27T08:21:56.713-07:00The classic pedophile line is to say that the chil...The classic pedophile line is to say that the child "asked for it." They always say the child seduced the adult. <br /><br />By saying that the child asked to be "examined" during the sessions, and that he did not initiate it has just officially marked him as class one, a-one grade a, pedophile.<br /><br />No doubt he will meet up with some of the people he molested in prison. They'll have to isolate him. They won't want another Father John Geoghan in the courtroom,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757696342634699253.post-31346653047300937672009-06-27T08:19:15.896-07:002009-06-27T08:19:15.896-07:00I can tell you why no juvenile patients have testi...I can tell you why no juvenile patients have testified. Juveniles who were referred through the courts tend to be more macho and would rather die than come forward to say that they were abused.<br /><br />We have heard that the San Mateo PD believe that he stopped molesting juveniles but we know that is not the case. Ayres told San Jose Mercury News reporter Sean Webby in 2006 that he liked treating juveniles because he found their dangerous attititudes "attractive. " <br /><br />We ourselves know of at least one man who was referred through the courts who was molested by Ayres around 1995 but he has not come forward to the police and never will. There are so many out there like him, you wouldn't believe.<br /><br />Additionally, we believe that as in the case of identical twin pediatricians Dr. Scott and Mark Blankenburg, just arrested on 87 counts of child molestation in Ohio - Ayres gave drugs and money to juveniles in exchange for sex. With juveniles, we believe he anted up his own dangerous behavior.<br /><br />Perhaps the former juveniles in their twenties who were molested are afraid to come forward out of fear they will be molested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com