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

[Missizzy]

Salem and kbl--ITA, and that's why I think it's such an important component in personal safety training for kids. If you tell one trusted adult and they do nothing, tell another. It needs to be rote as in "stop, drop, and roll".

IMO, adults who have been given direct information concerning child abuse should automatically become mandated reporters and be subject to the penalties (sorry as they are) of not reporting.

 

[Missizzy]

Any idea about the "unnamed judge" from the blog I linked to above? Could this be a major factor in the length of time this abuse was allowed to continue unchecked? We know LE was working their bunnies off trying to gather enough evidence. Did their enforced extra weeks/months of surveillance buy some judge some time?

What do we know about the judge who signed for the search warrants?

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100223/NEWS01/100223004


".....but a Superior Court judge would not authorize a search warrant for his office."

 

[Missizzy]

So who would have been the judge to hold up the show? Has the judge come under any scrutiny for dragging his feet? Is it Judge Stokes?

http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/201001/bradley-judge26.html


"Superior Court Judge E. Scott Bradley has been assigned to try the case of Dr. Earl Bradley, a Lewes pediatrician accused of abusing as many as 100 patients.

The case was originally assigned to Judge Richard F. Stokes, but Resident Judge T. Henley Graves reassigned the case to Bradley."

 

[Missizzy]

http://courts.delaware.gov/courts/Superior Court/About Us/?judges.htm

"The Honorable Richard F. Stokes became a Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware on March 23, 1999.

Judge Stokes graduated with honors from Colgate University in 1967 and received his J.D. from Duke University in 1970 receiving an American Jurisprudence Award in criminal law.

He was a Superior Court law clerk for President Judge Albert J. Stiftel (1970-1971). He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1970. He served as legal advisor with rank of Captain in the United States Air Force from 1971 to 1975 where he was awarded the United States Air Force Commendation Medal, and in 1975, received recognition for professional trial representation from Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and the Judge Advocate General.

Judge Stokes practiced law in Delaware since 1975 and was the managing partner of Tunnell and Raysor, P.A. He was a member of the Delaware Board of Professional Responsibility, Board of Bar Examiners, and Delaware Insurance Authority. Among other activities, he was chairman, Board of Trustees of Delaware Technical and Community College. He is a charter member of the Terry-Carey American Inn of Court. Judge Stokes also served as Resident Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Georgetown, Delaware from 1996 until 1999.

Judge Stokes' present term ends March 23, 2011."



Could he have been removed simply due to the upcoming end of his term? Or are there reasons which have not been disclosed? Is this the judge who approved the SWs?

 

[Missizzy]

We've read numerous times that LE believes that the video-taping began in 1998 and I've posted several comments I've found concerning the fact that Dr. Bradley and his wife divorced that same year. I didn't realize, however, that 1998 was the year that Dr. Bradley was a victim of an attempted armed hold up. It was "attempted" as he had no money on him. He was injured, however.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...radley&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

We've seen this before but I hadn't noted the dates. The "hold-up" occurred in the Beebe Medical Center Parking lot in February 1998 and their was a one day trial in October 1998. I wonder if Mr. Scott has any new information about this crime? I've always wondered about this scenario.

This is the same time that LE believes the videotaping began. Let's hope that Dr. Bradley doesn't site PTSD and brain damage from the hold-up as causing the abuse to begin. He did immediately seek treatment for his wounds, caused by being struck in the head with the gun (which was never located). Surely, the doctor was not wily enough to get his head whacked so he could plead insanity if he were caught in his crimes. Remember, we have reports coming in as early as 1975!!

Maybe, this time line is typical for Delaware but it's not for Oregon. The crime occurred in 2/98, the trial was held in 10/98, the appeal was heard in 7/99 and the appeals decision (affirming the conviction) was in 8/99. Oh, but if all cases moved so swiftly.

 

[Mercyneal]

Wow, great find. I thought I read that his lawyer said Bradley was going to plead insanity.

I saw an article where Bradley's lawyer complains about the number of victims. "103 seems like overkill," he said. That is an unbelievably tacky statement. Why shouldn't every last Bradley victim come forward to complain? The DA should make every effort to encourage as many victims as they can to come forward.

 

[Missizzy]

I guess I'd have to disagree with the attorney and say, "No Sir, it seems like over-rape to me".

 

[believe09]

We've read numerous times that LE believes that the video-taping began in 1998 and I've posted several comments I've found concerning the fact that Dr. Bradley and his wife divorced that same year. I didn't realize, however, that 1998 was the year that Dr. Bradley was a victim of an attempted armed hold up. It was "attempted" as he had no money on him. He was injured, however.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...radley&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

We've seen this before but I hadn't noted the dates. The "hold-up" occurred in the Beebe Medical Center Parking lot in February 1998 and their was a one day trial in October 1998. I wonder if Mr. Scott has any new information about this crime? I've always wondered about this scenario.

This is the same time that LE believes the videotaping began. Let's hope that Dr. Bradley doesn't site PTSD and brain damage from the hold-up as causing the abuse to begin. He did immediately seek treatment for his wounds, caused by being struck in the head with the gun (which was never located). Surely, the doctor was not wily enough to get his head whacked so he could plead insanity if he were caught in his crimes. Remember, we have reports coming in as early as 1975!!

Maybe, this time line is typical for Delaware but it's not for Oregon. The crime occurred in 2/98, the trial was held in 10/98, the appeal was heard in 7/99 and the appeals decision (affirming the conviction) was in 8/99. Oh, but if all cases moved so swiftly.

This is ringing a big bell with me-we had a case here in MA at New England Medical center I want to say....a physician was murdered and it ended up being a set up by another physician. It took years to nail him...do I have my cases confused? I swear to you guys there is a case out there where a physician set himself up to be pistol whipped as part of a bigger plot....

Now, with Bradley, it might have been the trigger for him to become more violent himself with his assaults....nothing cuts you down to size more than being a crime victim. You feel helpless, small and scared.

This is, however, a HUGE leap to a defense regarding raping infants and children and videotaping these assaults. It might come up in the penalty phase. JMO

 

[believe09]

Wow, great find. I thought I read that his lawyer said Bradley was going to plead insanity.

I saw an article where Bradley's lawyer complains about the number of victims. "103 seems like overkill," he said. That is an unbelievably tacky statement. Why shouldn't every last Bradley victim come forward to complain? The DA should make every effort to encourage as many victims as they can to come forward.

Early on in this case I think I posted that Bradley's attorney needed to shut up.

He is either intentionally being inflammatory to go for the "no untainted jury pool available" or he is a freakin idiot.

 

[Missizzy]

Believe, your post reminded me of a murder plot too. I did some sleuthing and wonder if this is it. This was in 1981 and sounds like a film noir. No doubt that the Coen Brothers own the rights to this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/21/nyregion/jersey-doctor-accused-of-plot-to-kill-wife.html

"Dr. Chomsky's wife, Susan M. Tuck, is a physician known by her maiden name. Both the alleged plot against her and the alleged double-cross against her husband by the three co-defendants developed after an undercover detective on the Essex County Prosecutor's staff infiltrated the alleged weapons and car rings last August, according to county law enforcement officials.

While masquerading as a ''hit man'' who was supposed to kill Dr. Tuck in return for a sports car, the officials said, the detective was given a .22-caliber handgun, 100 rounds of ammunition, a silencer and a packet of surgical gloves by the three co-defendants, according to the indictment. The materials were to be used in the murders, it said."

FWIW, a Dr. Steven Chomsky is practicing in Newark. What a twisted tale.

 

[Missizzy]

This is something I've always wondered about. This is from the website of the Arrianna Rose Foundation, the group which helps with funeral costs of still born babies. I posted early on about this group as it is connected to Dr. Bradley. It was started by his niece and after her death is run by her sister. I'm not posting the woman's name but it is available on the website. Here's a snip:

http://www.lilrose.org/

MM said her family helped with the baby’s burial expenses. Additionally, her uncle, Earl Bradley, who lives in Lewes, Del., suggested starting a foundation to help people in similar situations.

“The idea literally was conceived the day we were dealing with the death of Arrianna,” MM said.

She explained that her uncle and his sister, Lynda, took care of filing the paperwork and getting the tax identification number for the foundation, which was established as a nonprofit charity in 2002. It is a subsidiary of the Baybees Children’s Foundation, which M described as a group serving the population in Delaware by providing art and culture to children."

and

"The Arrianna Rose Foundation is off to a running start, thanks to it's affiliation with the Baybees Children's Foundation. That's a Delaware-based charity started by Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician and uncle of MM. Already, the charities have helped a Delaware couple who lost their baby. Bradley's charity paid for the funeral expenses...."

more at link

Just wondering.....what exactly is the Baybees Children's Foundation? By the way, I've noticed that Dr. Bradley's name has been taken off the list of advisors for The Arrianna Rose Foundation. How sad that he had to screw up a perfectly lovely idea. I hope they continue their assistance to grieving families.

 

[Mercyneal]

Baybee's Children's Foundation is probably just some half-cocked idea that Bradley cooked up to procure more children.

This art foundation reminds me of the case of pedophile child psychiatrist of Dr. Donald Lee Rife , who lost his license in three states for molesting boys. Four years ago, a citizen discovered that Rife was working as a docent with kids at the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida. The citizen had seen a story about docents in which Rife said to a reporter who wasn't aware of his background , that Dali's paintings were highly sexual.

After seeing the story, the citizen contacted the St. Petersburg Times to say that she thought Rife was the same guy who was the pedophile doctor. It was. The paper did a story on him, and Rife was let go from the museum.

Story here, "I'm no Pedophile"
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/18/Southpinellas/I_m_no_pedophile__Dal.shtml

 

[Mercyneal]

I just got a call from the Deputy Director of the Delaware Board of Regulations. I had sent them a complaint about Dr. Wayne Martz's offensive and insensitive letter that seemed to be more sympathetic to Bradley than to the victims.

The Deputy Director agreed that the letter was insensitive and inappropriate and showed no compassion for the victims. She said Martz let his Delaware license lapse two years ago. She said she was appalled by his letter but there was nothing they could do about it - freedom of speech, of course. She thanked me for bringing it to their attention and has shared the letter with the Director of the Board of Regulations.

 

[believe09]

Time to find out where the Doctor is licensed I guess....Thanks Mercy.

 

[Mercyneal]

I think the doctor is retired. He lives in Pennsylvania but I did not check if he was still licensed there.

 

[Missizzy]

Just reading the word Pennsylvania jogged a memory. I went back and looked at this article again:

http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...Bradley-in-sexual-abuse-of-103-child-patients

"Unbeknown to state regulators, Beebe forced Bradley to work with a chaperone in 2005, after the hospital was served with a search warrant and officials heard “vague rumors about alleged incidents” in Pennsylvania.

Bradley moved his practice from Philadelphia to Delaware in 1989."

What exactly do we know of the Philadelphia years? Could Bradley and Martz have been buddies or partners? And why in heck would the Beebe Medical Center require a chaperone for Bradley merely based on vague rumors? If I were a doctor, I'd want a bit more than that before I accepted a chaperone rule. Being that the Medical Center and Bradley's private office shared many of the same patients, why would that rule not apply at the office? Did no one in this medical community talk to one another? And what were they looking for in the 2005 SW at the Beebe Medical Center?

I've always steered clear of blaming the parents as I know how "good" Dr. Bradley must have been but this is a very small town. Every doctor must have known each other socially. How could something serious enough to merit a chaperone at the hospital not carry over to the office?

And we still don't have the name of the judge who held up the search warrants!!

 

[Missizzy]

This article has all but disappeared (a single site now) but it has some interesting facts and comments about the 2005 SW:

http://www.courierpostonline.com/pr...elaware-crime-Earlier-Bradley-probe-shut-down


"After being informed of the Milford police account of the 2005 case, Beebe spokesman Wallace Hudson said he was incorrect when he previously told The News Journal that hospital officials were unaware of earlier allegations against Bradley.

"It's my fault, sloppy work on my part," said Hudson, Beebe's vice president of communications, about not acknowledging the 2005 case before Tuesday. "I should have picked that up."

The doctor joined Beebe's pediatric staff in 1994. He left the hospital for private practice in 1997 but continued to treat his own hospitalized patients there."

and

"When detectives went there, [the hospital] wanted to call their legal department," Huey said, but a Milford detective said that was not necessary. "Give me the records or I will get them myself," Huey said the detective recalled.

"Hudson said he was unaware that the search warrant was actually served, but said prosecutors had sought records in April 2005 pertaining to disciplinary action or complaints against Bradley. Because hospital officials thought release of that information might violate state peer review laws, Hudson said, the hospital resisted and prosecutors never asked again...."

 

[Missizzy]

Bits and bobs floating to the surface. I thought Mercyneal and Believe might be reminded of another few doctors:

http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...witnesses--according-to-detective-s-affidavit

"Child 6: A 6-year-old girl went to Bradley on Dec. 8, 2008, to be checked for possible attention-deficit disorder. Bradley told her mother he needed to conduct a physical. Shielded from the mother's view by a blanket, Bradley had the girl take off her underpants; the exam lasted four minutes. After the exam, he kissed her several times, said he missed her and asked if she wanted to stay with him for the night.

The mother told the nurse at the girl's school about the exam, and the nurse, who contacted the Division of Public Health, later said her underwear should not have been removed."

and

"......said Bradley did not wear gloves during the exams, kissed her on the lips and insisted on giving her a prize each time."

and

"In April 2005, a pediatrician who used to work with Bradley described him as a "different character" with few friends. Bradley enjoys taking digital photos of patients and manipulating pictures on his computer, the doctor said."

 

[Mercyneal]

Ayres asked one of his young male victims "Did you miss me?" Ayres molested this victim while the parents were in the waiting room. Ayres' lawyer tried to make this a big deal - why would a psychiatrist molest a kid with the parents in close proximity? I think the compulsion for people like Ayres and Bradley is so great- as is their attraction to danger and living on the edge- that they can't control themselves even when parents are there. I think they're in an altered state when they molest.