{"id":443366,"date":"2026-09-21T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443366\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:00:12","slug":"fort-worth-respiratory-therapist-suspended-after-intent-to-promote-child-pornography-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443366\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth respiratory therapist suspended after intent to promote child pornography arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth respirator therapist has had his license suspended after an August arrest for intent to promote child pornography.<\/p>\n<p> Fort Worth respiratory therapist arrested   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On September 17, a disciplinary panel with the Texas Board of Respiratory Care temporarily suspended the respiratory care practitioner certificate of Fort Worth respiratory therapist Mark Elliott Ayers, RCP.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Burleson Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlesontx.com\/ArchiveCenter\/ViewFile\/Item\/9473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">records<\/a> indicate Ayers was arrested on August 8 at 1400 8th Avenue, which is the location of Baylor Scott &amp; White All Saints Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The TBRC says Ayers has been charged with two felony counts of intent to promote computer child pornography under 18, including one count of 10 or more depictions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The TBRC says the continuation of Ayers&#8217; respiratory care practice poses a threat to public welfare and suspended his certificate immediately.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A temporary suspension hearing will be held within 10 days of notice to Ayers, unless he waives the hearing. His suspension will remain in place until the TBRC takes action.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Ayers is not listed on the Tarrant County Jail&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Texas Board of Respiratory Care and Burleson Police records.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/burleson\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burleson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth respirator therapist has had his license suspended after an August arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[436,1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-443366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-burleson","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}