San Mateo County: Come have sex with our children!

Today, the trial of Tarquin Craig Thomas is slated to start.
Read a full summary in the San Mateo Daily Journal.

Tarquin was in the process of adopting the young boy that he was molesting on a DAILY basis, including having him pose nude with Tarquin and other adults.

I want you to pause and sit with this for a minute: These molesters have a particular gall: not only do they commit devastatingly evil acts against children, but they use things like professional training, public resources, political relationships, ALL for the goal of getting away with damaging the psyche of children, for their own perverse gratification. They become experts in the manipulation of people who should know better.

This is sheer evil, of the darkest kind. These people are not human beings. They are the evil putrefied excrement of human society.

According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, Thomas was originally charged with 25 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, and a misdemeanor showing pornography to a child. (for daily molestations and posing nude with adults.)

Judge Craig Parsons reduced it down to 5 counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 and one count of showing pornography - only one count due to a change in the law that doesn't allow charging based on number of images. A boon to the evil dregs and their equally horrendous supporters, I'm sure.

Let's just hope that they get conviction on all 5 remaining counts, assuming the facts in the case are true! (Note that the cleaning lady found photos of  several boys, some of the images including "contact with an animal," and the police also found the GPS tracking device that the perp had hidden with a photo that the child had with him. I'm betting the facts in the case are true.)

"They Essentially Have No Expertise"

I recently received this email from pediatrician Dr. Howard Pearson,who has been on the staff of Yale pediatrics for more than 40 years. Pearson, who wrote a history of the Yale Pediatrics Department, debunked Ayres' testimony that a Yale child psychiatrist named Al Solnit had trained first year pediatric interns to do physical exams. I thought I'd share it here:

Hi Ms Balfour:

I'm responding to your recent note re pediatrics at Yale.

In the 1950's, the Department was Chaired by Dr. Milton Senn, a psychiatrist who was also head of the Child Study Center - Yale's Child Psychiatry Service. Dr. Senn had very little pediatric training or experience and appointed a Clinical Chief, Dr. Nelson Ordway, an excellent clinician and teacher who was responsible for all clinical activities, including house staff recruiting, teaching and supervision. At that time, Dr. Solnit came to New Haven with a primary appointment in the Child Study Center. Although he had a joint appointment in Pediatrics, I'm confident that he did not instruct or teach anything except psychiatric subjects. He certainly would not have instructed in physical examinations.

Most physicians who want to be Child Psychiatrist sake a year post graduate internship ( PL1 ) in a pediatric service although some do a internal Medicine internship.

I am puzzled why a physician providing psychiatric consultations should perform any physical exams - that should probably have been a,"red flag." There is really no medical reason for a psychiatrist to physically examine a patient. They have essentially no expertise.

Although I have no hard data, I think that most pediatricians today and in the '50's try to have a parent in the room when they examine young children of either gender.. Adolescents are often embarrassed to have their parents in the room, although many pediatricians try to at least talk to their adolescent patients alone.

A female adolescent is almost always examined with a female attendant present; less frequent is having a chaparone in the room when an adolescent boy is examined - but in this day when the issue of sexual abuse is so prevalent some pediatricians do, particularly if the genitalia are examined.

H..A. Pearson.

Interesting New Comments

I see that there are some new comments on an older posting here that are interesting.

http://williamayreswatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/yale-debunks-ayres-our-child.html

I think these are spurred by the recent rally.

San Mateo County - Victims United Rally

[Original post: 08/04/2010 12:10pm, PST]
According to a press release I was recently sent a copy of, there will be a claim filed against San Mateo County for failing to protect a young sex abuse victim.

Crime Victims United of California and Marc Klaas will join with local legislators for a rally/press announcement about the claim that will be filed against San Mateo County, asking them to re-open a previously dismissed child molestation case.

According to the press release, CVUC President Harriet Salarno said this in response to a recent article in the San Mateo Daily Journal about sex offenders in San Mateo County not being properly monitored:

 “[...] the truth is that only 10% of children are abused by strangers — the greatest risk is from people they know and trust, as is what happened in this case. Yet in San Mateo County, it appears children are not being protected from predators either inside or outside their own homes. It’s unconscionable and the DA should be ashamed.”

The specific case that this action relates to is the case against Anthony Sadek, which was dismissed after irregularities were found in the toxicology test results of the accused's wife. As these cases often are, the details appear to be complicated and not at all straightforward. However, the dismissal of the charges is apparently related to the complication in testimony of the victim's MOTHER, not the victim. This is where CVUC feels that the ball was dropped. Read some more background about this case in the San Mateo Daily Journal.

It IS a complicated matter, but I agree that it's important to separate out the complications with the victim's mother and deal with those issues separately, and the victim needs to have a chance at justice. According to the San Mateo Daily Journal article, The District Attorney's office says that they re-evaluated at the time of the complications, and apparently decided that they could not win the case.

Either way, I feel that on the whole, child sex crimes are not given any real priority in San Mateo County, and someone DOES need to start digging to fix the problem. When you look at the news in recent past, you'll find articles time and time again about San Mateo County judges and prosecutors asking for and doling out very lightweight sentences to criminals who have molested or engaged in sexual relationships with young children. Many of these (including cases with full sexual penetration) do not even result in the perp having to register as a sex offender.

It seems that no one is interested in the actual damage done to victims of these crimes, and I know that they're walking around feeling that not only were they betrayed by their families and/or people they trusted, but that even the legal system does not consider their often life-long suffering and struggles to be worthy of more than a slap on the wrist to the perps. While unintentional, the message that is being sent to these victims by San Mateo County is that children are there for the sexual whims and enjoyment of adults.

So if you want to go to the "rally" and probably get a chance to hear Marc Klaas and others speak, Here's where you go:

Crime Victims United of California /  Marc Klaas News Conference
Superior Court/South Branch
400 County Center, Redwood City
Outdoor Courtyard

Monday, August 9, 2010:  11:00am PST.



San Mateo County: Come Have Sex with Our Children.

Advertisement in Patriot Ledger

Advertisement found in the Patriot Ledger July 31, 2010

(click for Ledger ad copy) (click for pdf)

[Original post: 08/01/2010 07:00am, PST]
This advertisement about william hamilton ayres (accused of molesting many young boys under the guise of practicing psychiatry) appeared in the Patriot Ledger paper yesterday, July 31, 2010.

If you saw this advertisement, and then came to this site because you were a victim, you now know that there are others of us out here. (I am one of them, and there are plenty of others.) Go ahead and call that number - it's not me, but it's safe to call. And if you were in the Boston area at the time, contact Sgt. Detective Robin Demarco as well. If you were in the San Mateo area, (later in ayres' "illustrious" career) please contact Detective Rick Decker at the San Mateo Police Department as well.