Does anyone know if Rabbi Alan Horowitz is Pals with Dr. Williams Ayres?
Rabbi Alan Horowitz, MD / William Ayres, MD
Does anyone know if past child psychiatrist, rabbi Alan Horowitz was pals with Dr. William Ayres, a child psychiatrist in California who was recently arrested for molesting boys in his practise. We know that Ayres worked in Boston at a place for troubled boys in the 1960s called Judge Baker Guidance Center. This place is affiliated with Harvard. Perhaps he crossed paths with Horowitz.
Donald Rife also went to Harvard and worked at Judge Baker in Boston (same place as Ayres) around the same time in the 1960s. Later busted for molesting boys.
Four additional counts of child molesting were filed against a former head of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, who is accused of sexually abusing patients. A prosecutor said two new victims had come forward accusing the psychiatrist, Dr. William Ayres, 75, of molesting them each twice in 1991 or 1992. The boys were ages 9 to 12 when the assaults occurred, the prosecutor, Melissa McKowan of San Mateo County, said. Dr. Ayres faces 18 counts involving five victims.
posted by Jewish Survivors at Wednesday, June 06, 2007
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DONALD LEE RIFE, MD
PRIMARY CERTIFICATIONS: Specialty Board 1: Psychiatry
Board Certified : Active
Certfication Date: October, 1969
SUBCERTIFICATIONS: Specialty Board 1: Child Psychiatry
Board Certified : Active
Certfication Date: September, 1970
EDUCATION TRAINING: MD - Harvard Med Sch, 1961
Int: Grace-New Haven Hosp, 1961-1962, Psychiatry
Res: Mass MH Ctr, Boston, MA, 1962-1964, Child Psychiatry
Res: Judge Baker Guidance Ctr, Boston, MA, 1964-1966
BORN: April 10, 1935, Ft Wayne, IN
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ALAN SHNEUR HOROWITZ, MD
PRACTICE TYPE: FT-Other
PRIMARY CERTIFICATIONS: Specialty Board 1: Psychiatry
Board Certified : Active
Certfication Date: June, 1978
EDUCATION TRAINING: MD - Duke U, 1971
Res: Med Coll Ga, Augusta, GA, 1973-1976, Psychiatry
BORN: April 04, 1947, Brooklyn, NY
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WILLIAM H. AYRES, MD
PRACTICE TYPE: PT-Priv Prac Solo; PT-Retired
PRIMARY CERTIFICATIONS: Specialty Board 1: Psychiatry
Board Certified : Active
Certfication Date: April, 1964
SUBCERTIFICATIONS: Specialty Board 1: Child Psychiatry
Board Certified : Active
Certfication Date: February, 1967
EDUCATION TRAINING: MD - U Wisc Med Sch, 1956
Int: Yale New Haven Med Ctr, 1956-1957, Psychiatry
Res: Yale New Haven Med Ctr, 1957-1959, Child Psychiatry
Res: Judge Baker Guidance Ctr, Boston, MA, 1959-1961
Clin Assoc Prof: U Calif SF
BORN: January 03, 1932, Madison, WI
Docent at Dali denies sex past
By Jamie Thompson
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
February 18, 2006 Saturday
METRO & STATE; Pg. 1B
A volunteer docent at the Dali Museum who sometimes works with young students is a former child psychiatrist whose medical license was revoked in three states amid allegations he had sexual contact with children.
Museum director Hank Hine said Friday he would likely dismiss the man if the allegations were true. "We put children first," Hine said.
Volunteer Donald Rife, who is 80 and has volunteered at the museum for more than a decade, said he has never been sexually inappropriate with children and has never been convicted of any sex crimes.
"Basically, I need to make it crystal clear: I'm not a pedophile. . . . I've had a long-term relationship with a woman and I'm absolutely no danger to any child."
The St. Petersburg Times received a call on Friday from a woman in New York who had seen a Don Rife listed as a Dali docent working with children in the museum's junior docent program. She wondered whether it was the same Rife who had been accused of molesting children.
Rife told a reporter he was the former child psychiatrist whose medical licenses had been revoked.
He said he has worked with elementary and middle school kids in the museum's junior docent program.
"I'm very careful to avoid being alone with any of them," he said. "We're always in a group, teaching with other instructors. I do that to protect myself against any sort of allegations."
Museum director Hine said no staff or volunteers are left alone with the children. "We always have other adults present," he said.
Educated at Harvard and Yale, Rife was once president of the Vermont Psychiatric Society. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 1986, where he was chief of the Student Mental Health Center. He also served as a consultant to the juvenile justice systems of several Florida counties.
While living in Gainesville, a neighbor accused Rife of sexual activity with her 7-year-old son. She said she found a photograph of her son in Rife's home that showed her son holding a cloth frog up to his mouth that had human-sized male genitalia.
The boy told detectives he played games with Rife in a Jacuzzi whirlpool, with and without bathing suits. Police searched Rife's home and found letters describing a sexual relationship between Rife and a 12-year-old boy, according to state records.
Rife denied the allegations.
The Gainesville Police Department filed a charge of lewd and lascivious or indecent assault on or in the presence of a child in 1987. The case was not prosecuted after the boy's parents decided it would be too traumatic for their son to testify.
The Florida Department of Professional Regulation investigated the case for the Board of Medicine, which revoked Rife's license in 1993.
Between 1969 and 1983, Rife treated hundreds of children in Vermont in private practice and as a consultant to Vermont high schools. In the 1980s some of his former patients told authorities that Rife performed sex acts on them during counseling sessions. Vermont officials revoked his license, saying Rife had committed sexual misconduct with minors in his office.
Rife on Friday described some of his Vermont accusers as juvenile delinquents, saying one was interested in money. Rife said his insurance company settled a civil suit with one former patient. He said once Vermont suspended his medical license, Florida and Massachusetts followed suit.
He said he retired in Florida after his licenses were revoked and had health problems.
Hine, the museum director, said he plans to look into whether the museum is doing enough to make sure its volunteers are suitable for working with children.
Jamie Thompson can be reached at (727) 893-8455. Send e-mail to jthompson@sptimes.com.
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February 19, 2006
CORRECTION: Donald Rife, a volunteer docent at the Dali Museum whose medical license was revoked amid allegations that he had improper sexual contact with children, is 70. His age was incorrect in a story Saturday.
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