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

[Missizzy]

You are right jjenny. I think Lewes has a population of something like 3,000. One would think that something like this would have leaked out somewhere. It's really surprising that it didn't. I sure hope to high heaven that there wasn't some sort of warning to an "upper echelon" (the teachers, doctors, and state police families) while the other portion of Dr. Bradley's practice, described as low-income and single parent families, were allowed to walk their kids back through those doors while LE took notes. That takes my breath away to even think about it.

My comment about the other pediatrician simply reflects my shock that another doctor would have had ANY knowledge of this monster. It doesn't sound to me (I could be wrong, though) as if the doctor went to police with a report. It sounds like, upon being interviewed, he recalled that he had referred to Bradley as a pedophile.

To use another example; it's one thing to alert authorities that you see a person board a plane with an explosive and believe he might be a terrorist. It's quite another, after there has been an explosion, to say that you referred to the other passenger as a terrorist, inferring that you had some solid evidence that you knew the person was a threat. The first person is being pro-active. The second person is guilty by lack of appropriate reporting of a perceived threat.

I'd like to read more of just what this doctor saw and knew before I let him off the hook.

 

[jjenny]

You are right jjenny. I think Lewes has a population of something like 3,000. One would think that something like this would have leaked out somewhere. It's really surprising that it didn't. I sure hope to high heaven that there wasn't some sort of warning to an "upper echelon" (the teachers, doctors, and state police families) while the other portion of Dr. Bradley's practice, described as low-income and single parent families, were allowed to walk their kids back through those doors while LE took notes. That takes my breath away to even think about it.

My comment about the other pediatrician simply reflects my shock that another doctor would have had ANY knowledge of this monster. It doesn't sound to me (I could be wrong, though) as if the doctor went to police with a report. It sounds like, upon being interviewed, he recalled that he had referred to Bradley as a pedophile.

To use another example; it's one thing to alert authorities that you see a person board a plane with an explosive and believe he might be a terrorist. It's quite another, after there has been an explosion, to say that you referred to the other passenger as a terrorist, inferring that you had some solid evidence that you knew the person was a threat. The first person is being pro-active. The second person is guilty by lack of appropriate reporting of a perceived threat.

I'd like to read more of just what this doctor saw and knew before I let him off the hook.

I wonder if police even interviewed Dr. Bradley when they supposedly investigating him.
What exactly did they do during that supposed investigation?
We know they didn't get search warrants.
So what did the investigation consisted of?

 

[Missizzy]

Lewes (pronounced like Lewis or Louis) is right on the Cape and has about 3,100 people. Rehoboth Beach, a few miles away, has 1,500. A larger town, Georgetown, about 15 miles away, has only about 5,000 people. So, to my mind there must be a very small town atmosphere. Being on the coast, I would also wonder if these numbers represent permanent residents only or also include "summer people". However you count it, it's pretty small and bucolic seeming.


A new article just posted:

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

 

[Missizzy]

That's a good question, jjenny. I imagine a whole lot of parents are asking the same thing. Were they secretly taping the children going in and out? Were there cameras set up in exam rooms? Did they have the cooperation of staff? Were they busy interviewing families and everyone who'd ever dealt with the doctor? Did they set up secret trades or purchases of the videos?

It seems downright amazing, if not almost unbelievable that he didn't know. I wonder if his lust was so great by this time that he was totally careless and was oblivious to being watched...if he was getting careless. But if that were true, why wouldn't we see a rash of parents making reports right before the arrest? Something doesn't play for me.

 

[Missizzy]

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.

 

[Missizzy]

Well, this is the first I've heard of the bipolar. I wonder if Dr. Bradley was off his meds and thus, acting out more and more sexually and exhibiting a grandiose sense that he could do no wrong, could not be caught? I also wonder what medication he was stealing. Could he have been drugging children elsewhere?

"Bradley's own sister, who worked for him as an office manager, told police she had complained to two officials with the state medical society, but again, nothing came of it. The society officials deny receiving any complaint from Linda Barnes.

Barnes told police in 2005 that her brother was bipolar and taking medication from the office, and that several parents had complained to her about Bradley inappropriately touching patients."

 

[jjenny]

That's a good question, jjenny. I imagine a whole lot of parents are asking the same thing. Were they secretly taping the children going in and out? Were there cameras set up in exam rooms? Did they have the cooperation of staff? Were they busy interviewing families and everyone who'd ever dealt with the doctor? Did they set up secret trades or purchases of the videos?

It seems downright amazing, if not almost unbelievable that he didn't know. I wonder if his lust was so great by this time that he was totally careless and was oblivious to being watched...if he was getting careless. But if that were true, why wouldn't we see a rash of parents making reports right before the arrest? Something doesn't play for me.

I certainly don't think any of it was done.
I don't think police could set up cameras in his exam rooms considering they say they couldn't even get a search warrant.

 

[Missizzy]

I've been rereading past articles about Bradley, now that we have more info and I wanted to post this again:

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

"Bradley began his medical career in Philadelphia, going to medical school at Temple University. He completed his residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Around 1984, he began working at Frankford-Torresdale hospital on Knights Road in Northeast Philadelphia. He opened his own practice in a small complex just a few blocks away, at Academy and Red Lion Roads in Morrell Park.

While there, he was apparently just as obsessed with toys as he was in Lewes, according to a parent of a former patient who asked not to be identified."

You can watch a video at the link above with photos of the practice.


also:


"According to state records, Bradley was sued once while in Philadelphia, in 1991. The lawsuit was successful, but Eyewitness News was unable to determine the reasoning behind the suit, or contact any of the parties involved. State records show no disciplinary action against him."


What was the suit about? Could this be a civil settlement concerning sex abuse that somehow didn't make its way to the medical board? I'm starting to think that we have more pertinent info concerning the restaurant we choose to eat at than we do with the doctor we take our children to. That's not right.

Given the number of medical facilities that this monster has practiced at, not to mention whenever he's been on-call for other doctors, are we still thinking 100 is the correct number of victims?

There's a lot more snowflakes out there than 100, to paraphrase Wayne Bleyle.

 

[Texas Mist]

<snip>

The governor is not the only one calling for a review. The state attorney general's office also has asked for an investigation.

What they are likely to find is a lot of fingerpointing, but few willing to accept much, if any, responsibility.

For example, officials who oversee the Board of Medical Practice claim they never received any complaints until after the arrest. State law requires all medical professionals, state agencies, and law enforcement agencies to report to the licensing board in writing within 30 days if they believe a doctor is or "may be" guilty of unprofessional conduct.


more here

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582679,00.html


Too many people dropped the ball, IMO...I'd be willing to bet there were a dozen or more professionals, with a duty to report, who suspected impropriety at a minimum....If all dozen or more had/have proof they contacted the state medical board, that would seem to only leave someone at the medical board dropping the ball or covering this up.

I think this is starting to boil down to CYA for all entities who don't want a lawsuit....wonder how many more lawyers will start speaking up within the next few months? :furious:

 

[believe09]

This same story is running on the AP today, TM:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_re_us/us_delaware_pediatrician_rape

The attorney general requested a referral to the medical board in 2005. Because the Dr's own sister was making complaints that her brother was taking meds from the office and patients parents were complaining about inappropriate touching.

Check books at the ready....

 

[burbqueen]

Ok this story is scary!!!! I am currently pregnant with my first kid. I had no clue that you weren't suppose to let the doctor see your kid alone or have them take off with he/she. Now it would be odd to not go to the exam room initially but I swear I wouldn't have blinked an eye lash if a peditrician said they had to take my kid to get a toy or candy or go off to an xray room etc. So this is a real eye opener.

I don't know how these fathers dealt with it. I know if I had to tell my husband I would be scared of his reaction!! I would have to sit him down and give him a drink first. He has told me many times that if anyone molested his kid he would kill them.

I've heard horror stories about medical boards. There have been plenty of nutty people in the medical profession. There was this story of this Dr. that was killing patients by injecting them with poision and his co-workers! They complained to the medical board and they basically gave him a slap on the wrist. It's as if they don't want to rat out one of their own or they act above the law. Most in the medical field are wonderful but the fraternity and untouchable attitude in the medical field is very alarming.

 

[Roselvr]

I scanned parts of the thread; read some of the links. F'ing horrible.

I see his sister also questioned him; makes me wonder who was video taping.
Words can't describe what I want to say.. I'd probably get banned.

 

[Missizzy]

Finally, a time line. I wish it went back to Bradley's birth, however. How many people are going to actually believe that the first abuse occurred in 1998, regardless of where it was?

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100110/NEWS01/1100370/1006/NEWS

"Delaware crime: Dates and locations in the Dr. Earl B. Bradley sex abuse case"

 

[Missizzy]

I can't figure out this statement in the link above:

"1998: Earliest possible abuse case in Delaware, police suspect."

Bradley moved to Lewes in 1994 and practiced pediatrics. He'd been practicing, in some capacity, since at least 1983. Why do police suspect that he suddenly started raping in 1998? Or do they mean that this is the first report which has been received? We all know that 44 year old men (his age in '98) don't suddenly decide to rape a child.

I've read in numerous comments that his wife left him in 1998. Could she have known? His own sister suspected, for heaven's sake. She might certainly have a long history of knowing this man's sickness. Were his four children left with him? They would have been in their teens if my math is correct.

I also really wonder about the missing drugs. If the man was bipolar, he certainly could afford his meds. His actions lead me to believe that he was off of them so what other drugs could he have been stealing and why? I worry terribly that he abused children outside of these clinics. If he was so focused on children, how can we not suspect that he sought them out in other venues. It's been stated that many of his patients were low income. Can you imagine how many single moms or dads would feel comfortable (I'm not defending their actions!!) allowing their child to visit over at nutty Dr. Bradley's house? If he had so many toys, games, movies at the clinic, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he had a similar assortment in his home. Look what he chose to wear when they toted his sorry butt off to jail.

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ed_more_than_100_child_patien.html?comments=1

Some interesting comments that I hadn't noticed before:


".......I did a backround check and he had no prior offenses (I'm a PO in charge of sexual pred.) He had charges in PA; however they did not show up after a ******* parent took a settlement. by "Parent of one of his vics" on 12/25


"The ARRIANNA ROSE FOUNDATION referred people to this doctor as well. His niece is on the chair of that foundation. His niece does not want to believe he did these things yet she took her own children (6 and 2) to him..." by "me x 6" on 12/29

I'm intrigued by who this niece might be. There's a PBradley III in town who has written scholarly papers on Newborn Health. Is the Bradley family well known and established in this community? I hadn't heard of a niece before. I'm just shocked beyond belief that so many seemingly educated and sophisticated people let this slip by for years!!

 

[Missizzy]

This is more than a little worrisome:

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

This is the organization that Dr. Bradley's sister is supposedly affiliated with. It looks as if it were set up by Dr. Bradley himself to help the meet the needs of bereaved parents. I can't even imagine the pain these particular parents must be going through knowing that Dr. Bradley had anything to do with their babies.

"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, and the M's paid for the flowers."

and

&#8220;I had a really bad depression after everything happened,&#8221; MM recalled. &#8220;My grief was just so overwhelming.&#8221; She recounted that she was unable to continue working at her job taking photographs of babies at a retail store in Feasterville."

 

[Missizzy]

Snipped from above:

"thanks to it's affiliation with the Baybees Children's Foundation"

I can't find anything about this foundation. I'll start up again tomorrow. My mind is just spinning with the number of babies and children who have most likely been affected by Dr. Bradley. Tip of the iceberg, I'm really afraid.

 

[Missizzy]

Snipped from one of the testimonials from the Arrianna Rose Foundation site:


Dear M,

I am writing to you on behalf of the 3rd floor staff at Beebe Medical Center. Our floor houses the inpatient rooms for pediatrics within the hospital and we often care for Dr. Bradley&#8217;s patients. Every holiday season we participate in the parade of trees at Grotto Pizza. We chose a theme and decorate a tree to be on display at the restaurant. A donation box is placed at each tree and the proceeds go to a charity of our choice. This year we chose your foundation. My family suffered a loss this year and your foundation graciously helped us with the funeral cost to bury our son T. So the 3rd floor staff thought it was appropriate to help and give back to the organization that helped us. Please accept this donation on behalf of the staff and those in our community who voted for our tree by donating to your charity.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,
SC R.N. [EBM]
(Mommy of TLC [EBM] & one of the many nurses that care for Dr. Bradley&#8217;s patients)


My point in posting these links to the Arrianna Rose Foundation (which obviously provides much needed caring support for bereaved parents) is to show just how connected Dr. Bradley is in this community. For heaven's sake, he helps out with babies who have passed. He is there to support the parents. He makes donations. It's starting to seem a little more apparent to me, just how this man pulled this off. He did his homework.

His own niece began this foundation and from the comments I've read, she is unwilling to believe the allegations. Bless her heart. She's in for a major fall.

 

[Missizzy]

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.

 

[Texas Mist]

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.

I wish there was a presser or press release stating that more people were coming forward and the monster is being investigated for *lots* more crimes. Just so other people wouldn't have to have doubts about going to LE w/ *any* inappropriate behavior.

ITA w/ you MissIzzy -- what they have on him now is tip of the iceberg.