GUILTY DE - Dr. Earl Bradley for sex abuse, child 🤬🤬🤬🤬, Lewes, 2009

[Texas Mist]

Beebe Responds to Previous Investigation of Accused Pediatrician

Reported by Michael Lopardi
Updated: Jan 11, 2010 10:41 PM

LEWES, Del. - Beebe Medical Center said it had no knowledge of any wrong-doing by accused pediatrician Earl Bradley during an investigation in 2005, according to a statement.

Milford Police said they received complaints against Bradley in 2005, but the case was never prosecuted. Bradley is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting young patients at his practice near Lewes.

"Beebe Medical Center understands we have a duty to report when we have knowledge of any circumstances that may impact a physician's ability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety. In 2005, we had no knowledge of any issues requiring such reporting," according to the statement from Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wallace Hudson.

"The hospital's oversight of a physician's clinical practice exists only while the physician is in the hospital. The hospital has no knowledge of and, of course, no jurisdiction over what happens in the physician's private office," the statement says.

more here

http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=11802483


sooooo - nobody knows a thing, hm?? :snooty:

 

[kbl8201]

Beebe Responds to Previous Investigation of Accused Pediatrician

Reported by Michael Lopardi
Updated: Jan 11, 2010 10:41 PM

LEWES, Del. - Beebe Medical Center said it had no knowledge of any wrong-doing by accused pediatrician Earl Bradley during an investigation in 2005, according to a statement.

Milford Police said they received complaints against Bradley in 2005, but the case was never prosecuted. Bradley is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting young patients at his practice near Lewes.

"Beebe Medical Center understands we have a duty to report when we have knowledge of any circumstances that may impact a physician's ability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety. In 2005, we had no knowledge of any issues requiring such reporting," according to the statement from Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wallace Hudson.

"The hospital's oversight of a physician's clinical practice exists only while the physician is in the hospital. The hospital has no knowledge of and, of course, no jurisdiction over what happens in the physician's private office," the statement says.

more here

http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=11802483


sooooo - nobody knows a thing, hm?? :snooty:

the thing that is making me the most angry, is the prosecutor didnt say "i didnt think the claims were valid' or 'i didnt think they were true' he said 'i didnt think i could win'. since proving the case is less ardous in civil court, or in a medical setting like this, wouldnt it have been easier to get his liscense yanked then put him in prison?

 

[impatientredhead]

the thing that is making me the most angry, is the prosecutor didnt say "i didnt think the claims were valid' or 'i didnt think they were true' he said 'i didnt think i could win'. since proving the case is less ardous in civil court, or in a medical setting like this, wouldnt it have been easier to get his liscense yanked then put him in prison?

The medical board can't take someone's license just because someone makes an allegation. Their was a claim made, and investigation, and no charges filed.

In this specific case it seems like someone should have been able to do something, but if you step back and think about someone's license being pulled because a patient makes a claim (that is investigated and does not result in charges) that puts a lot of power in an irate patients hands.

If he had been charged, they would have pulled his license pending the outcome of the trial.

 

[Filly]

Check out this comment:

http://cbs3.com/topstories/Dr.Earl.Bradley.2.1390288.html#addComments

"Maybe the investigation should go as back as 1975, when this guy worked as a teacher for children hospitalized at Shriners Hospital for Children, in Philadelphia. I met him there when my sister (then 14) was recovering from a scoliosis surgery."

Posted by MPL on Dec. 29



I wonder if this woman has given a statement to LE. A lot of people are starting to talk about Dr. Bradley. Oh, how I wish they would have talked earlier. 1975 is a loooong time ago. He would have only been about 21. I hadn't heard a thing about him being a teacher. I wonder if he was volunteering as many do at Shriners.

Iz, Not sure what number post it was where I mentioned this. Well about should we worry about his residency at Jeff.

Now, it's SHRINERS? My gentleman friend's sister worked at Shriner's back then. I'll ask her if she recalls him.

Note that our Shriner's back then was a seperate facility located up where this guy's original practice was. That was on Academy Road. Today they have a almost brand spanking new Shriner's right by our other children's hospital. It's Saint Chris's. CHOP is the other.

I wish Jersey Girl was on. She could fill us in on the number of "seasonal residents" and such. A vast number of folks from Cape May, New Jersey use that Lewes ferry. I would believe summer vactioners from Rohoboth would need a Pediatrician during the summer months. That isn't too far.

Heck, Rohoboth is a great place if you have real small kids. Their boardwalk is geared more towards lil ones. It also has a vast gay community. Tons of shops and night life and good restaurants. I love it there. One year my DD was about two years old and got strep throat while we were down there for two weeks. Thank goodness I decided to bring her home to the Doctor. We split with only four days into our stay.

Dear Lord how this one man has wrecked mayhem on so many.

 

[Missizzy]

That makes me livid. Shrugging shoulders...we just don't know a thing....yikes.

I need to clarify some info I found. The Arrianna Rose foundation was started by a couple after they lost their first child to a stillbirth. Dr. Bradley and his sister, Lynda Barnes, were instrumental in getting the paperwork done to start the charity. The mother of the baby, Arrianna, who passed is listed as being Dr. Bradley's niece but Lynda is not her aunt.

Sadly, a few years later, MCM passed away right after she and her husband adopted a little boy from Guatemala. Her husband, AM, and the wife's sister, CC, kept the charity going. CC has two young children who I think are the ones referred to in the link above. She and MCM were sisters so she would also be the niece of Bradley.

You can get all this info by reading the website carefully:

http://www.lilrose.org/articles.html

So help me out here. Dr. Earl Bradley has a sister, Lynda Barnes (who's reported him). Bradley had a niece, MCM, who passed and left her charity to her sister, CC, also a Bradley niece. This would mean that Bradley must be married, or was married, to the women's aunt (their mother's sister) as Lynda doesn't seem to be related to them (and is simply Bradley's sister). Their mother's married last name must be C as both women carried it. So, who is the womens' mother and aunt and are they still connected with Bradley? I've read that Bradley's wife left him in 1998. His four children would be cousins to these two women. Sounds like a parlor game, doesn't it? If it weren't so tragic.

That's a lot for my little pea brain. Please correct me if I'm wrong or if there's another possibility. Could all these people really have missed this?

In full disclosure, I have a horrible thought. After we lost our sweet newborn granddaughter two years ago, a photographer came to the hospital and photographed her in some of the little clothes we'd knitted and made for her. I stayed with her while the photographer worked her magic. They are very sweet and tender photos and I treasure them. I just have a sick and growing terror that Dr. Bradley did more than help with paperwork with these babies who were stillborn. I can hardly go there. I don't want to go there. But we have to bear witness to this man's evil and stop it.

 

[Missizzy]

I agree, it is a lovely and vibrant place. We went on a camping trip with our three small boys for a full month in 1981 from Texas to New England. I remember being really taken in by Rehoboth Beach. I remember it extremely well as we almost lost our 1 year old over an old "seawall". Scared the putty out of my husband and me. I thought he had him, he thought I had him. After we found our hearts, we had a great time exploring the area. No community deserves pain but it's especially sad when a community tries so hard to be welcoming and inclusive. My community is much like that and I can see people trusting and valuing eccentricity.


Filly--I also wonder if Bradley wasn't merely volunteering at Shriners. I know that many medical professionals in Portland volunteer at our Shriners. The woman refers to him as a teacher. He could have been coming in to teach anything--art, clowning, singing, after-care, etc. I didn't get the impression that he was a professor with the staff, did you? Isn't it interesting that this woman remembers the man and the name 35 years later? What in God's name did he do to those children to etch his memory into their soul?

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/201001/bradley-uncle12.html

Bradley's uncle was found guilty of indecency charges in 1991

Dr. Earl Bradley's name has become "Mudd" in Lewes for charges of rape and exploitation of young children, but nearly 20 years ago, another Dr. Bradley faced similar charges in State College, Pa.

Dr. William Bradley, Earl Bradley's uncle, faced similar circumstances in 1990 but was found not guilty of the most serious charges.

At the time William Bradley was 86 years old. He was accused of a series of charges - indecent exposure, open lewdness, indecent assault and involuntary deviate sexual behavior - which were consolidated for the courts.

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/201001/bradley-biden12.html

Biden to victims: ‘I cannot imagine’

Families get help as Bradley case unfolds


".....Attorney General Joseph “Beau” Biden III said: “Let me be clear: We are going to prosecute this doctor to the fullest extent of the law. After a successful investigation by the Delaware State Police, the Child Predator Task Force and Sussex County Attorney General’s Office, this doctor is now in jail on 32 felony counts and now faces life in prison.”


There's also an interesting sidebar article. It answers a lot of questions we've had:

WHAT TRIGGERED BRADLEY’S ARREST?

 

[Missizzy]

Are we going to accept Dr. Earl Bradley's word on this:

http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...43/Judge-faces-lawsuits-alleging-sexual-abuse

"WILMINGTON -- A trial date has been set in a Delaware Superior Court civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a Delaware Court of Common Pleas judge. And a federal judge in a separate civil suit by a different plaintiff, but involving similar allegations against Judge William C. Bradley Jr., has declined to dismiss the case, allowing it to move forward toward trial.

Both lawsuits involve allegations from more than 30 years ago filed by plaintiffs under the Delaware Child Victims Act.

In Delaware Superior Court, Judge Joseph R. Slights III this month set Jan. 31, 2011, as the trial date for the civil case against Bradley, 71, by a "John Doe" plaintiff who alleges he was abused as a child by Bradley some 30 years ago."


"While Bradley shares the same last name as Dr. Earl Bradley -- the pediatrician charged with rape earlier this month in Sussex County -- attorneys for the plaintiffs and Earl Bradley said they knew of no family connection."



Can we have an independent investigator check into this, please??

 

[kbl8201]

"Dr. William Robins Bradley of North Lewisburg, OH voluntarily surrendered his license for having had disciplinary action taken by another state (1/27/98)"

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...37X0ZV&sig=AHIEtbTRFmFK-7MU-1PdvQ2MLIinZMKE0Q

From the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine Winter 1998/1999

was the medical board aware he voluntarily surrendered his liscense? :waitasec:

 

[kbl8201]

The medical board can't take someone's license just because someone makes an allegation. Their was a claim made, and investigation, and no charges filed.

In this specific case it seems like someone should have been able to do something, but if you step back and think about someone's license being pulled because a patient makes a claim (that is investigated and does not result in charges) that puts a lot of power in an irate patients hands.

If he had been charged, they would have pulled his license pending the outcome of the trial.

ummmm what investigation?
they are claiming the district attorney never even notified them.

 

[impatientredhead]

ummmm what investigation?
they are claiming the district attorney never even notified them.

He wasn't charged.
They don't have to report an investigation.
They can't pull his license for an investigation.
They can pull it pending outcome of CHARGES.
That was my point.

 

[kbl8201]

He wasn't charged.
They don't have to report an investigation.
They can't pull his license for an investigation.
They can pull it pending outcome of CHARGES.
That was my point.

i know. i didnt mean to be snippy.
my point was the da's office did notify the board. i have not seen anything to even say they checked out the claim, in fact, what i have read, they denied they were even notified

 

[Missizzy]

kbl--Could you be mixing up the two cases? I might not have been clear. I posted a snip from a Penn. State Medical Board report concerning Dr. William R. Bradley--Dr. Earl Bradley's uncle. Check out Post #327 and that might make more sense. I'm trying to figure out just which other Bradley family members might have had charges brought against them.

 

[Missizzy]

I'm really sorry if I've caused confusion. I've spent a good bit of today researching the Drs. Bradley. To recap:

The Cape Gazette reported today that Dr. William Bradley was found guilty of multiple counts of indecency with a child in 1991 at the age of 86. This man is Dr. Earl Bradley's uncle.

I also came across another Delaware Bradley--a judge--who is facing multiple charges of sexual abuse, spanning back 30 years. I found it interesting that the reporter commented that no tie could be found to Dr. Earl Bradley. Just Hmmmmm. I posted that link hoping that someone would be able to follow up with some info on that case to see if we could link them in any way.

Just some random sleuthing going on. I'm sorry if I wasn't more clear. I did post links to everything I found and would love some second opinions. Dr. Earl Bradley did not just fall out of the sky last year and start raping kids IMO. The comment that I posted last night, dating back to 1975, seems far more the likely scenario.

 

[Missizzy]

Just a caveat. I am not at all certain that the Dr. William R. Bradley who surrendered his medical license in PA is the same Dr. William Bradley who was convicted in 1991 of indecent acts with a child in PA. I'd really appreciate some feedback on these facts. There's a LOT of Bradleys in that area.

 

[kbl8201]

ok im getting the bradleys confsued. that's the problem.

 

[Filly]

http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/201001/bradley-uncle12.html

Bradley's uncle was found guilty of indecency charges in 1991

Dr. Earl Bradley's name has become "Mudd" in Lewes for charges of rape and exploitation of young children, but nearly 20 years ago, another Dr. Bradley faced similar charges in State College, Pa.

Dr. William Bradley, Earl Bradley's uncle, faced similar circumstances in 1990 but was found not guilty of the most serious charges.

At the time William Bradley was 86 years old. He was accused of a series of charges - indecent exposure, open lewdness, indecent assault and involuntary deviate sexual behavior - which were consolidated for the courts.

Get out.

What's the chances Uncle Bill assaulted Earl as a kid?

 

[nomoresorrow]

Here's the comment by the other pediatrician in better context:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109...uX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3dhcm5pbmdzYWJvdQ--

"Even two pediatricians interviewed in 2005 told investigators about complaints from Bradley's former patients.

Dr. Lowell Scott told police he referred to Bradley as a "pedophile" when talking to colleagues.

"I probably shouldn't comment on that. ... We would refer to him that way as more of a joke," Scott told The Associated Press.

"We all felt that he practiced differently than we did. ... None of us had any actual knowledge of him doing any potential harm," Scott said.


I'm sorry, but even in better context, I'm not too happy with these other doctors. How would they feel if I had that sort of information about their children's doctor and didn't report it or tell them of my concerns? It's sounding like a re-run of the priest debacle. Everybody knew but nobody wanted to upset the apple-cart. These doctors don't even sound as shocked by the outcome of the investigation or ashamed of their lack of action as I would expect.

I couldn't agree more Missizzy - sounds to me as though the code of silence within the medical profession regarding Dr's "mishaps" in the operating room - otherwise known as medical malpractrice (Shhh...) extends far beyond including a code of silence when it is suspected that children are being sexually violated by a fellow physician/colleague - Dr. Scott is a in my opinion! Shame on him and every other doctor that, over the years, found some kind of sick enjoyment and entertainment in speculating about Dr. Bradley - even calling him a pedophile - while innocent children were being sexually brutalized. I wouldn't let these Dr's treat my gerbil FC's sake!! JMHO -

 

[Missizzy]

A little bit more info on the elder Bradley:

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/...-late-uncle-was-convicted-of-sex-crimes-in-Pa.

CRIME: Dr. Earl Bradley's late uncle was convicted of sex crimes in Pa.

I'm going to remove the above post which is incorrect. The man's correct name is William Arthur Bradley Jr. Once again, a pedophile who sought positions working with children. I'm really hoping that the investigative reporters are burning the midnight oil on this family!!