...blossoming sexual predator...
“And he said, ’Oh, you are being a bad girl. You know what I do to bad girls? I spank them.’” Ayers forcibly pulled her out of a chair and whipped her with a metal ruler.
Kennedy stated the episode led her to seek counselling years later.
A longtime advocate of progressive policies in a deeply conservative state, Ayers has written articles for publications including The New York Times and was once a regular contributor to “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio.