This morning, with four armed guards standing beside Ayres, victim Thomas C., wearing black thick-rimmed glasses, took his turn to address the court. With his eyes focused on Ayres, Thomas C. referred to him as a serial pedophile.
"You look like a wolf spider -- you don't even know how many children you caught in your web," he said.
Thomas C., now a psychiatrist himself who focuses on helping adolescents, ended his statement with, "You are going where all the other wolf spiders go to die."
Many spoke of the societal responsibility Ayres had to these children who, at the time of their molestations, were in desperate need of help, not further abuse.
Victim Carl F. spoke at length about Ayres' proven knowledge on the life-altering effects that sexual abuse has on children. He read excerpts from a paper Ayres co-authored titled, "Practice Parameters for the Forensic Evaluation of Children and Adolescents Who May Have Been Physically or Sexually Abused," which appeared in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1997.