I just stumbled upon this profile of the Judge who presided over the first Ayres criminal trial:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...+"Victoria+Balfour"&cd=91&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
This sentence leaped out at me:
In his opening remarks, Weinberg insisted there was no improper touching, only routine physicals administered by a pediatrician who later became a child psychiatrist and advocated for open and honest sex education.
Hmm..
Ayres was NEVER a pediatrician, not in Connecticut or Boston or California. He had only one year in pediatrics in his first year of his Yale residency. Then he switched to adult psychiatry. In Boston, he worked for four years as a child psychiatrist.
We have spoken to doctors who were actual PEDIATRICIANS at Yale when Ayres was there ( who had at least three years of training in pediatrics, as opposed to Ayres' one)- who later became child psychiatrists themselves.
They told us that once they became child psychiatrists, they stopped doing physicals on children.
I know also that in Ayres' deposition for his first molestation civil trial, Ayres said, "Like, I've always considered myself a pediatrician also."
Huh? The guy has never been a board certified pediatrician anywhere and he never put in the amount of years one actually needs to be a pediatrician.
The question is, why did so many in California permit him to get away with this?
According to the 1956 Yale directory, San Mateo pediatrician
Sam Leavitt was an assistant resident in pediatrics when Ayres was doing his first -and only- year in pediatrics. Having been an intern at Yale himself, Leavitt must have known full well that
child psychiatrist Dr. Al Solnit never trained pediatric interns how to do physicals. He knew that it was actually
pediatrician-in-chief Dr. Milton Senn who trained first year pediatricians. Leavitt knew that Ayres only had one year in pediatrics and was never a pediatrician.
We have spoken to at least ten child psychiatrists who trained at Yale when Ayres was there, and they say that no child psychiatrist there was trained to touch children in therapy at Yale. Don't tell us that Dr. Sam Leavitt didn't know that as well. When a mother of an Ayres victim approached Sam Leavitt's wife Thea three years ago and said that Ayres molested her son, Thea Leavitt said " I guess the training is different back east." Well, it's different all right - it's not anything like Ayres has been saying it was to people in California, including the first criminal trial. Contrary to what he has said, he wasn't trained by a child psychiatrist at Yale to give physical exams and he wasn't trained at Judge Baker to give physical exams to children in therapy.
Sam Leavitt of all people has to know this. In our interviews with both child psychiatrists and pediatricians from Yale, and from child psychiatrists at Judge Baker ( more than 60, by our count), we have not been able to find a single doctor who says that Ayres is telling the truth about his training.