{"id":443590,"date":"2026-09-22T02:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:24:22","slug":"fort-worth-respiratory-therapist-arrested-on-possession-of-child-sex-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443590\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth respiratory therapist arrested on possession of child sex abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth respiratory therapist was arrested last month and faces charges of possessing material that depicted sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The therapist, Mark Elliott Ayers, was arrested Aug. 6 by Burleson police on charges of possession with intent to promote computer child pornography under 18, a second-degree felony, as well as possession with intent to promote child pornography under 18 years of age, a third-degree felony. On Aug. 19, Ayers was booked on two additional child porn charges, including a charge of possession or access with intent to view child pornography depicting sexual conduct or sexual assault, a first-degree felony, according to county records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ayers is currently incarcerated at the Johnson County Jail, and is being held on $1.9 million bond, according to records from the Johnson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. An attorney for Ayers could not be identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ayers&#8217; respiratory therapy license was suspended by the Texas Board of Respiratory Care on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth respiratory therapist was arrested last month and faces charges of possessing material that depicted sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,153229,46235,153228,153230,4031],"class_list":["post-443590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-mark-elliott-ayers","tag-possession","tag-respiratory-therapist","tag-sexual-abuse-of-children","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443590","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=443590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}