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

[Missizzy]

An excellent overview on the status of the upcoming trial:

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/arti...-accused-raping-children?odyssey=mod|mostview

".....The trial, however, could prove anticlimactic. It is expected to be a brief proceeding before a judge -- not a months-long, emotional spectacle before jurors who would have had to endure the videos that police contend show Bradley, his face contorted in anger, forcing intercourse and oral sex on petrified victims as young as 3 months old.

That's because Bradley's lawyers have, at least for now, abandoned the mental illness defense they had long pursued and waived Bradley's right to a trial by jury. Legal experts following the case anticipate prosecutors and defense attorneys will agree to a "stipulated trial" before Superior Court Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. Lawyers for both sides, who are under a gag order imposed by Carpenter, would not outline their strategy or make any comments. Bradley faces 529 counts of rape and related charges dating to 1998.

In a stipulated trial scenario, prosecutors present a minimal number of witnesses, and the defense would not dispute damning evidence such as the videotaped rapes. Bradley has pleaded not guilty, but his attorneys have never contested the allegation he raped children. It's almost a certainty Bradley, in prison on $4.71 million bail, will not take the stand. With such a quick trial -- which could be anywhere from hours to several days -- prosecutors would get their guilty verdict and life sentence, observers said....

more at link


And an update concerning the date of the trial, which was to start tomorrow:

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110531/NEWS/110531021/1006/rss

Bradley child rape trial postponed

"...Judge William Carpenter's office announced this morning that due to the death of Carpenter's father over the weekend, Bradley's trial will now begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
It will take place in Sussex County Superior Court...."

more at link

I can't imagine dealing with the loss of your father and having to deal with this monster standing before you. I hope that doesn't open any sort of door into an appeal. They're already talking about the possibility of an appeal concerning the evidence found in the "extra" building.

 

[Missizzy]

The day has arrived. 529 counts of rape and related charges. My prayers go out to all the families effected by this monstrous person:

http://www.wboc.com/story/14849128/bradley-preview

Trial Set for Lewes Pediatrician in Child Sex Abuse Case
June 7, 2011

"After two postponements, the trial of a former Lewes pediatrician charged with sexually abusing scores of young patients over more than a decade is about to begin. The trial of Earl B. Bradley, who has been held in custody since being arrested in December 2009, is set to begin Tuesday morning in Georgetown...."

and

"...Dr. Eli Newberger, a Harvard professor and author of "The Men They Will Become," commented on the horrific nature of the Bradley case, describing it as one of the most documented and sordid cases involving a pediatrician.

"You look at his specific acts, you look at his facial expressions, you listen to what he says, and you have to wonder, what kind of devil is this man?" Newberge said.

From examining the horrific nature of the Bradley case, Newberger has suggested that there are lessons to be learned: the importance of deterring future inappropriate behavior by pedophile-pediatricians and reminding medical societies to not only protect their members, but the patients they treat as well...."

more at link

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14858852

"....One witness testified that some of the videos seized were 13 hours 35 minutes and 6 seconds long. The average length was around 3 minutes and 10 seconds long. Most of the videos were password protected, and found in one building. Officials say that they found at least one video from December 1998 through December 2009, except for 2005. That was the year Bradley was being investigated by the Milford police department...."

more at link


Was 2005 the year that Bradley claimed he was assaulted in the hospital parking lot? I don't recall an investigation in 2005. I know that his wife left him in 1998. Wait, here it is:

http://www.delawareonline.com/assets/pdf/BL157481511.PDF

INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE EARL BRIAN BRADLEY CASE
May 10, 2010

I don't remember reading this extensive overview.

 

[Missizzy]

Bradley claimed that he was robbed and assaulted by a man with a gun in February 1998 in the hospital parking lot. A man was located nearby, tried and convicted. A gun was never found, however.

And here's a statement about 2005:

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....."

more at link


It's tragic to think that the chaperone worked. He stopped the abuse apparently. But the moment they removed the chaperone, he started in again.

 

[Missizzy]

Update:

http://www.wgmd.com/?p=26210

"....Former Lewes pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley admitted in court today that he raped or assaulted at least 86 children he treated and videotaped the attacks. Those tapes have been put into evidence for Bradley’s trial which is going on in Superior Court in Georgetown at this hour.

Many of Bradley’s alleged victim’s parents are in the courtroom for the trial...."

more at link

 

[Missizzy]

Still from the link above:

"Court reconvened just after 2pm after a lunch break as testimony in the first day of the Earl Bradley trial continues. In court today Bradley admitted to raping or assaulting at least 86 children who were his patients and taping the attacks...."

and

".....a number of thumb drives, pen and handicams were also seized after Bradley’s arrest in December 2009 that contained over 13 and a half hours of unique video. That’s over 250 clips of different children in video that [Det. SG] called some of the most violent and brutal video he’s seen......

(updates every couple of hours)

 

[cocomod]

What is hard for me in this case is the lack of evidence found on the children that were penetrated. Why did the parents not see blood? Why did the parents not see some kind of evidence with the more brutal attacks? They may have trusted him and discounted a crying child; however, wouldn't there have been some evidence when they arrived home? Wouldn't they have noticed something when the children were put in a bath later?

I feel so terribly sad for these parents but mostly for the children that suffered these attacks. They will likely have trust issues for the rest of their lives! Doctors are at the very pennacle of trust - and here is one example of someone that broke that trust to the nth degree!

 

[Missizzy]

Heck. I've waited for this trial for months and my internet had to go down today. I just got it back. Here's an update:

http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/news/story/bradley-awaits-judge-s-verdict/109083?source=rss

Bradley awaits judge’s verdict

"Testimony in the trial of Lewes pediatrician Earl Bradley ended the day it began. New Castle County Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. will review the evidence presented at the June 7 bench trial and then render his verdict.

The courtroom, packed with around 50 families and 20 media members, witnessed a fast-paced proceeding...."

more at link

(an excellent, in-depth article but be aware there might be triggers)



ETA: I just read through it, please take me seriously. TRIGGERS!!!!!

 

[Missizzy]

I'll never forget that article. Oh my lord. My heart just aches for those little ones, the parents, and the LEOs who had to view these vile acts.

I was thinking that possibly there would be a verdict tonight but I guess not:

http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14859974

"....Both the state and defense have rested in the trail of former pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley. Now the judge will start examining the evidence. Sources at the trial believe with over 13 hours of video to review, the judge will not reconvene to announce his verdict until Wednesday at the earliest...."

 

[Filly]

Grabbing children by their skulls and tossing them across the room.

One little girl actually went gray and lifeless and this a*sh*le had to perform mouth to mouth to resusitate her. Poor little thing slapping at his legs trying to breathe and lays lifeless before this who then performs CPR and says "Let's go get a popsicle".

Are you f*iggin kidding me? You want for a monster? It's not in a movie or at Halloween it's someone like this. A real life horror show who would do such things to children.


http://callsforjustice.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/earl-bradley-waiting-on-a-verdict/

 

[Filly]

Bradley claimed that he was robbed and assaulted by a man with a gun in February 1998 in the hospital parking lot. A man was located nearby, tried and convicted. A gun was never found, however.

And here's a statement about 2005:

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....."

more at link


It's tragic to think that the chaperone worked. He stopped the abuse apparently. But the moment they removed the chaperone, he started in again.

Too bad that guy didn't shoot his a*s. Ya have to wonder if he was attacked and murdered if all this would have come out or would we be reading about the wonderful Doc who kids loved?

Somewhere out there is a guy that robbed this b*tch, and he'd be a hero if he'd have kicked his a*s. Sorry but hey that's how I feel. I bet the perp wouldn't have hurt a kid. Just robs creepers.

 

[Missizzy]

Filly--I found the guy's appeal document. I don't think there really was an attack. I believe that someone--possibly an irate father or a child trader--attacked Bradley in the parking lot and Bradley paid him off. No gun was ever found, even though the man was found near by. A very shaky case, IMO. Bradley had just left the hospital to walk home and stumbled back in, beaten up, and told this story. Sounds fishy to me, knowing what we know now.

And Bradley's been at it a long long time. There were two young girls at a Shriners Hospital who remembered him. He volunteered there as a teen. He read to little girls and molested them too.

I noticed something in that investigative report I linked to on the previous page. Bradley's sister--the one who worked at his clinic and first reported him (and whose letter the medical board "lost"), is noted as being his adopted sister. While that shouldn't make a difference in the world, it leaves me curious. I really want to know what Bradley's childhood was like. This man's life story could teach us so much.


ETA: In Post#137 on our first thread on Bradley, Texas Mist posted a link to the attacker's appeal. The link no longer works but here's a snip. I also noted that she pretty much said exactly what Filly just did. The attacker's last name is Scott.


"This 16th day of August 1999, upon consideration of the briefs of the parties, it appears to this Court that:

(1) On February 16, 1998, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Dr. Earl Bradley left work at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, Delaware to walk home. As he walked through the hospital parking lot, an individual grabbed him from behind and held an object to his head while demanding money. Bradley recognized the object as a gun due to its size and general appearance. According to Bradley, the individual also threatened him several times, saying "I will shoot you, this is a gun." Bradley did not have his wallet with him. This caused the individual to become upset and strike Bradley twice on the side of his head with the object before walking away slowly. Due to the presence of a street lamp, Bradley got a good look at his assailant during the attempted robbery...."

In Post #526, I wrote:

"....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...."

That's mighty fast, IMO. 1998 was also the time the video taping began, according to LE, and October 1998 was when Bradley and his wife divorced. I believe that was also the year he became the benefactor of the Arrianna Rose Foundation, a group which provides for funerals for stillborn infants.

Oh Lord, I just came across one of my old posts concerning that foundation. They also provided photographs of the tiny ones who passed. I commented, "you don't think?" It gives me shudders just to think about it but the man had NO boundaries. Why wouldn't he abuse a poor angel?

Filly, you discussed Shriners in Post #324. I had found a comment under an article about two sisters at Shriners in 1975. He wasn't referred to as a volunteer but as a TEACHER!!


ETA again: I found the appeal document:

http://de.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.\SAC\DE\1999\19990816_43950.DE.htm/qx

Lee M. Scott vs State of Delaware

 

[Missizzy]

Still no verdict:

http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14870577

The Strategy Of Earl Bradley's Attorneys

"....It only took two witnesses and one day of testimony, but Bradley's attorneys did not call any witnesses. They also did not cross-examine the two detectives with the Delaware State Police who testified. The attorney's we spoke with say they took this strategy because they are probably expecting a guilty verdict, and are putting all their energy into an appeal. That is because of the videos that were seized from Bradley's former office.

A few months ago Judge Carpenter ruled against the defense's motion to get rid of the videos. Bradley's attorneys claim the search warrant didn't cover the building where investigators found the evidence. During Tuesday's testimony, we learned those videos show more than 13 hours worth of Bradley raping his young patients...."

more at link



So, a person can plead guilty and then go on to appeal? I did not know this. The videos in question were found in the outbuilding not originally covered by the search warrant. I have no idea why, when LEOs encountered a previously unknown extra building, that they didn't request another warrant. No doubt, LE and the prosecutors have asked the same question. I was rather surprised when the judge ruled that the videos seized from that building were allowed in. Those also happen to be the most incriminating videos.

If the videos are thrown out on appeal, what's left? I'm very afraid that these children and their families are looking at a decade or more of legal wrangling. Just when you think you have some closure, along comes an appeal, a Post Conviction Relief trial, a request for clemency. Each proceeding rips open the slowly healing wounds.

 

[Filly]

Filly--I found the guy's appeal document. I don't think there really was an attack. I believe that someone--possibly an irate father or a child trader--attacked Bradley in the parking lot and Bradley paid him off. No gun was ever found, even though the man was found near by. A very shaky case, IMO. Bradley had just left the hospital to walk home and stumbled back in, beaten up, and told this story. Sounds fishy to me, knowing what we know now.

And Bradley's been at it a long long time. There were two young girls at a Shriners Hospital who remembered him. He volunteered there as a teen. He read to little girls and molested them too.

I noticed something in that investigative report I linked to on the previous page. Bradley's sister--the one who worked at his clinic and first reported him (and whose letter the medical board "lost"), is noted as being his adopted sister. While that shouldn't make a difference in the world, it leaves me curious. I really want to know what Bradley's childhood was like. This man's life story could teach us so much.


ETA: In Post#137 on our first thread on Bradley, Texas Mist posted a link to the attacker's appeal. The link no longer works but here's a snip. I also noted that she pretty much said exactly what Filly just did. The attacker's last name is Scott.


"This 16th day of August 1999, upon consideration of the briefs of the parties, it appears to this Court that:

(1) On February 16, 1998, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Dr. Earl Bradley left work at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, Delaware to walk home. As he walked through the hospital parking lot, an individual grabbed him from behind and held an object to his head while demanding money. Bradley recognized the object as a gun due to its size and general appearance. According to Bradley, the individual also threatened him several times, saying "I will shoot you, this is a gun." Bradley did not have his wallet with him. This caused the individual to become upset and strike Bradley twice on the side of his head with the object before walking away slowly. Due to the presence of a street lamp, Bradley got a good look at his assailant during the attempted robbery...."

In Post #526, I wrote:

"....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...."

That's mighty fast, IMO. 1998 was also the time the video taping began, according to LE, and October 1998 was when Bradley and his wife divorced. I believe that was also the year he became the benefactor of the Arrianna Rose Foundation, a group which provides for funerals for stillborn infants.

Oh Lord, I just came across one of my old posts concerning that foundation. They also provided photographs of the tiny ones who passed. I commented, "you don't think?" It gives me shudders just to think about it but the man had NO boundaries. Why wouldn't he abuse a poor angel?

Filly, you discussed Shriners in Post #324. I had found a comment under an article about two sisters at Shriners in 1975. He wasn't referred to as a volunteer but as a TEACHER!!


ETA again: I found the appeal document:

http://de.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.\SAC\DE\1999\19990816_43950.DE.htm/qx

Lee M. Scott vs State of Delaware

When someone holds a gun to your head do they say "This is a gun and I'll shoot you?". I'd think they'd say "Give me the bleepin money or I'll blow your head off". It's always good when the perp let's you know what the weapon is. Oh and he stumbled back in the hospital. Just perfect.

A teacher? At Shriners? Hmmmmm what the heck was he teaching. Our Shriners was in the same place for eons.



We'll never know the evil that lurks. Man, I don't even think he knows.

 

[Missizzy]

FWIW, I believe that Shriners does have teachers who work under the jurisdiction of the local school district and who go into the hospitals to work with the kids who are there for extended stays. I haven't seen another comment, though, about Bradley being a teacher. I wonder if the young girls just assumed he was a teacher, even though he was just someone who was so helpfully volunteering.

 

[MsFacetious]

My experience has been different than MissIzzy. But I also have 2 kids, who are under 10 years old, not 14 kids! She is a braver soul than I.

This case threw me from day one. I still have a hard time comprehending 100+ kids being alone with this guy long enough for this to happen... and it not leaving signs afterwards. Obviously my kids "issues" are a good thing, because this would never happen in our case. Especially before they were able to communicate.

Our Pediatrician was also my Pediatrician 25 years ago. I can contact him 24-7-365. Literally. I would trust him to babysit. Yet, even he (or his staff) have never been unattended with my children. There's never been a need.

Specialists and therapists... we have seen a dozen or more. Ears, eyes, heart, gastro, immune, neurology, speech, physical, orthopedic, nutritionist, dentist... Never been a need for the kids to be alone with any of them.

Tests... MRI, CT, x-rays, EKG, EEG, echo, lab work, eye exams, hearing tests, therapy evaluations... sometimes behind glass in the same room, but never been out of my sight.

Emergency room - X- rays, cut off a finger, breathing issues, seizures... never out of my sight in the ER.

The ONLY time my children have been out of my sight in a medical situation is during surgery.

I haven't been following this case, but it sounds absolutely horrid... :furious:

I do have one question, though: have any of you had a pediatrician take your child out of your sight? I'm just curious. Ours has taken them to the next room to weigh them but the door is open and they're back immediately. We can hear/see everything.

In no way am I blaming any parent or child involved - not at all. Not ever ever ever. But I just wonder what excuse a pediatrician would use in order to get a child alone in their office. :waitasec:

Have any of you experienced your child being separated from you at the doctor's office? ER, I can see - if it's an emergency. But doctor's office? Just wondering.

 

[Missizzy]

I think this is what concerned many of us from the beginning. This trial is merely a formality. The real trial is still to come. The fact that the judge made a questionable call to allow in the videos seized from a building not clearly listed on the SW played directly into the defense's hand. This breaks my heart as there's no closure. None. No more than a step towards the high court. This is will be more like a long and drawn out surgery without anesthesia. How many divorces, suicides, domestic violence incidents will occur?

The world changed the day the children were raped. However it is not going to be allowed to right itself until the very last hearing is heard...and that could be more than a decade away. My heart just breaks for those children, their families, and the community of Lewes as I know what's ahead. We barely got out alive.

http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110613/NEWS01/106130302

Earl Bradley's battle just beginning
Appeal could follow sentence; new trial possible if videos suppressed
Jun 13, 2011

"When a defendant admits to violent crimes in court -- as former pediatrician Earl B. Bradley essentially did last week at his one-day child rape trial -- it's normally part of a guilty plea. Not so in the case of Bradley, accused of raping or assaulting more than 100 girls he treated...."

and

That's because when state prosecutors and Bradley's public defenders agreed to a "stipulation of facts" in the proceeding that left some spectators in tears, it was merely a legal maneuver to shorten the trial...."

and

"....Legal observers said such a concession assures a guilty verdict that lets the defense turn its attention to convincing the Delaware Supreme Court a state judge erred when ruling in April that police had the legal authority to search two buildings where Bradley's videos were discovered...."

"...the more important battle should take place next year in briefing papers and perhaps a hearing before the high court. Should the justices suppress the video evidence, they could order a new trial and toss out the stipulation as if it never happened....."

"...Then they'd have to prove the case through the victims....."

more at link

 

[Missizzy]

Concerning the issue of doctors taking children out of their sight, I too have been blessed with a wonderful pediatrician. He's worked with out kids for 17 years. He has given the children and my husband and me the option of leaving the room for teen exams and we've always left it up to the children. We've wanted them to be able to ask questions privately if they wish. The man and I have stood shoulder to shoulder helping deliver three of my grandchildren and I believe I would allow him to babysit any of those babies. However, and this is a huge however, I believe that Bradley's patients' parents must have trusted him just as much as I do our doctor. There's the conundrum. Our doctor is kind and good. Bradley is evil.

If you carefully read the articles about the abuse read in court, it clear that he was extremely tricky. He gave many of the children a painful but unnecessary injection and then trundled them off to "comfort" them while their parents were busy at the front desk. I refuse to judge these parents as this might have been the only experience they'd ever had with a pediatrician. And we need to remember that even a state trooper's child was seen by the doctor. State troopers are typically not the overly trusting type.

Bradley was very very good at what he did. He didn't need to groom most of the children, as they were too young. Instead, he groomed the parents. Nurses at the local hospital recommended him to birthing mothers. Many kids seemed to like him and the expensive toys he lavished on them.

The older children who were abused were most likely the girls who were unnecessarily catheterized while their parents were in the room. Bradley was adamant that catheterization was the only way to get a "clean" urine specimen from a child (NOT TRUE) and thus, inflicted this procedure on the girls while blocking the view of their genitalia from their parents by his body--all the while filming with his pen camera. Other than the filming, the parents were actually an unwitting supporter of this abuse and that sort of set-up is known to thrill pedophiles.

As far as my experience with therapy and psychiatric visits, I have yet to meet a specialist who allows the parent in the treatment room for more than an occasional few minutes. And I've probably worked with 20-30 different professionals. I have one son who lived at the old Oregon State Hospital for two separate 10 month visits and obviously he was behind closed doors with myriad professionals and helpers. Also, at developmental evaluations, parents are often required to fill out huge stacks of paperwork concerning behavior and development, all while children are taken by an aid/volunteer to one specialist after another and then meet up with their parents later. This has happened at both OHSU and Shriners. My children were removed from their special ed classrooms and taken to meet privately with psychiatrists in the school setting too. I think that the greater the child's medical or emotional needs, the more likely some separation is to occur.

I don't remember ever being apart from my five healthy and typically developing children but frequently separated from those with special needs. JME.

 

[Belinda]

If this guy gets off on a technicality, I will never forgive the justice system.

 

[Nefriahaia]

If this guy gets off on a technicality, I will never forgive the justice system.

This one AND the Casey Anthony murder trial. raying: