The suit includes accusations that Ayres’ victims came forward to San Mateo County prosecutors with stories about inappropriate interactions, but prosecutors continued to send patients to him…
“Systematic failures” by the state and local government resulted in the sexual abuse in hundreds of young boys by an infamous San Mateo-based child psychiatrist who died in prison, a fiery lawsuit filed Monday claims.
“We look forward to holding Defendants accountable for their ratification and cover-up of Dr. Ayres’ long history of sexually abusing little boys at Hillcrest,” said Sandra Ribera Speed, the lawyer representing the 13 victims. Prosecutors revealed heinous details of Ayres’ interactions with the victims in a professional setting. According to the suit, Ayres arrived in San Mateo in 1963 after he abruptly left his previous practice in Boston, where he had a reputation for “unorthodox” physical components of his psychiatric evaluations of young boys.
Ayres threatened young victims with violence and his power as psychiatric evaluator on more than one occasion, the suit alleges. He told one victim that he would make his report “so one-sided that they would lock him up and throw away the key” if the defendant told anyone about the abuse.
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