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

[Missizzy]

I guess I wasn't the only one voting for the landfill. This really pleases me as those items serve no one in a positive way, IMO.


http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/...LICE--Destruction-of-Dr.-Earl-Bradley-s-items

POLICE: Destruction of Dr. Earl Bradley's items

"On Jan. 26, Delaware State Police, assisted by Delaware Department of Transportation personnel and equipment, removed items owned by Dr. Earl Bradley from the Secure Self Storage Unit where they had been stored.

After removal, the items were transported to an undisclosed remote facility where they were destroyed, rendered useless and disposed of under the supervision of the DSP and the Attorney General’s Office...."

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[Missizzy]

I check this case every day, waiting for the judge's decision concerning the admission of evidence and found this. My first thought was--there's still camera equipment in that office? A very disturbing story. Poor little kids. What a nightmarish place to be taken.

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110405/NEWS01/110405018/1006/RSS

Police: Couple burglarize Bradley's office with kids in car


A Millsboro couple were arrested and another man is still being sought in a break-in over the weekend in Lewes at the former office of accused pedophile pediatrian Dr. Earl Bradley. The couple allegedly burglarized the doctor’s office at 18259 Coastal Highway shortly before noon Saturday while their three children were sitting in the car outside, said state police spokesman Cpl. Bruce Harris.

Jamey S. Lathbury, 29, and his 25-year-old wife, Holly, were each charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools, theft under $1,500, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, criminal mischief and conspiracy...."

and

"...Jamey Lathbury then pulled up in front of the building, where both he and his wife again entered and removed computer monitors, swords, Disney collectible figurines and camera equipment...."

more at link (mug shots)

 

[Filly]

I check this case every day, waiting for the judge's decision concerning the admission of evidence and found this. My first thought was--there's still camera equipment in that office? A very disturbing story. Poor little kids. What a nightmarish place to be taken.

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110405/NEWS01/110405018/1006/RSS

Police: Couple burglarize Bradley's office with kids in car


A Millsboro couple were arrested and another man is still being sought in a break-in over the weekend in Lewes at the former office of accused pedophile pediatrian Dr. Earl Bradley. The couple allegedly burglarized the doctor’s office at 18259 Coastal Highway shortly before noon Saturday while their three children were sitting in the car outside, said state police spokesman Cpl. Bruce Harris.

Jamey S. Lathbury, 29, and his 25-year-old wife, Holly, were each charged with burglary, possession of burglary tools, theft under $1,500, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, criminal mischief and conspiracy...."

and

"...Jamey Lathbury then pulled up in front of the building, where both he and his wife again entered and removed computer monitors, swords, Disney collectible figurines and camera equipment...."

more at link (mug shots)

You don't miss a trick woman. I was sitting reading about my Phillies and there was a small side article in our Daily News. I came to post and here you already did.

How crazy is this?

There's the third guy involved as well someplace.

Freakiest of all is they bring their children to burglarize a lousey pedophiles office. You want for bad vibes? Not to mention possibly well Lord knows what they could come across in that place.

 

[Filly]

On an aside Holly Lathbury steals from the elderly and the blind. Caregiver and all that.:banghead::banghead::banghead:




http://www.wboc.com/story/13206919/...rom-assisted-living-residents?redirected=true

 

[Missizzy]

Fine, upstanding folks, yes indeed. I didn't see a single word of just who has custody of those three innocent children. I have a strong suspicion that meth played a part in that crime. You just have to wonder if it was a simple burglary or if the perps knew the history of the place and the possible value (on a sick black market) that those items might have.

Thanks, Filly, for your vote of confidence but I do, indeed, miss lots of tricks. You've got my back though!!

 

[Missizzy]

YES!!!!! We've waited months for this decision.

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/...dence-trial-Dr-Earl-Bradley-?odyssey=nav|head

Judge clears video evidence for trial of Dr. Earl Bradley


"Prosecutors can show jurors videos that they contend show pediatrician Earl B. Bradley raping several young girls, a Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.

The court's opinion is a major blow to Bradley's defense, which had sought to bar the crucial video evidence from Bradley's upcoming trial.

Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. did not spare the investigators, however, criticizing police for mistakes in drafting and executing a warrant to search Bradley's office complex near Lewes in December 2009. He concluded, though, that they were entitled to search a white building with a checkerboard design where police seized digital videos that they said show Bradley having sex with child patients, plus another building where more videos were found...."

more at link (3 pages of nail-biting statements from the judge)

 

[Missizzy]

If having enough information concerning a fellow doctor to refer to him as a "pedophile" and doing nothing about it, doesn't count as negligence, what does? How many innocent children were brutally raped expressly because this man, who is a mandated reporter, failed to take action? Dr. Scott made the comment to another doctor four years before Bradley's arrest--four years. How many years had he kept those thoughts to himself? Once again, how many children suffered because a doctor failed to speak up?

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110415/NEWS01/104150356/1003/rss01


"The malpractice insurer for Dr. Lowell F. Scott, who allegedly told police in 2005 that he and colleagues referred to fellow pediatrician Earl B. Bradley as a "pedophile," does not want to pay his legal costs or potential damages in pending lawsuits.

Bradley wasn't arrested until 2009, more than four years after Scott made his remark. Today Scott faces lawsuits from nearly 30 of Bradley's former patients and their families, who accuse Scott of medical negligence and dereliction of duty for not reporting Bradley's suspicious behavior with young girls he treated to medical disciplinary authorities and Delaware child protection authorities...."

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[Missizzy]

They are or they aren't??? That's the question. So they aren't considering an insanity defense but they are entertaining the possibility of a mental illness defense. Very worrisome......

http://www.wboc.com/story/14483409/bradley-defense

Court Records: Bradley Attorneys Not Pursuing Insanity Defense

" Defense attorneys for accused pedophile pediatrician Earl Bradley are not pursuing an insanity defense, according to court documents. Prosecutor Paula Ryan said public defenders informally notified the state about the move. However, Ryan filed a motion dated April 19 requesting a mental examination for Bradley, who is accused of molesting more than 100 young patients over more than a decade before being arrested in December 2009.

"The defense could potentially claim at trial that the defendant was 'guilty but mentally ill,'' Ryan wrote in the motion. Prosecutors are requesting Dr. Peter Collins conduct the exam as soon as possible. The defense has not yet responded to the request. The Delaware Department of Justice said attorneys from both sides are under a gag order...."

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[Missizzy]

Can anyone explain to me the difference between pleading guilty but insane or pleading guilty but mentally ill. I've checked and really don't see the difference. In both instances the accused would serve out their time in the state hospital, until such time they were magically cured and can move to the regular prison. Does that ever happen?

And just which mental illness will Bradley plead?

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110422/NEWS01/104220358/1003/rss01

Delaware courts: Mental exam ordered for Dr. Earl B. Bradley
Prosecution's motion for psychiatric evaluation approved

"A Superior Court judge has ordered pediatrician Dr. Earl B. Bradley to undergo a mental evaluation by a state-hired psychiatrist before his trial begins June 1. Judge William Carpenter Jr. of New Castle County Superior Court approved the prosecution's motion to have Bradley examined in an order filed Thursday...."

and

"...Police and prosecutors contend the videos show Bradley forcing oral and vaginal sex on young girls and shouting commands at victims. The state's indictment alleges that five children whom Bradley recorded appeared to lose consciousness or stop breathing during the doctor's attacks...."

and

"....defense attorneys have indicated they might argue he is "guilty but mentally ill," while not pursuing an insanity defense...."

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I'm really curious, just which mental illness category in the DSM-IV does raping infants fall under?

 

[Missizzy]

I wish someone, possibly even the city, would buy this property, have everything bull-dozed, and create some sort of garden/small park/meditation space. The town of Lewes needs to have this memory removed and something positive put in its place, IMO. Over 100 children and their families and loved ones had their lives change course on that property.

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/...ssey=mod|newswell|text|Delaware Coast Press|s

"The commercial property once owned by Earl Bradley, the Lewes pediatrician charged with raping or sexually abusing more than 100 patients he treated over a 10-year period, will be sold next month. The former site of Bradley's BayBees Pediatrics, located on Route 1 outside Lewes, is set for auction at a sheriff's sale on May 17..."

and

"...The property, which has been boarded up since Bradley's arrest, went into foreclosure and was seized by Delaware National Bank. According to the Sussex County Sheriff's office website, nearly $70,000 is still owed on the property. Signage and yard decorations were removed from Bradley's office last February...."

more at link (including info about the auction)

 

[Missizzy]

Whoa....Does this mean he's going to simply plead guilty?


http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14599467

BREAKING NEWS: A Judge Will Decide The Fate Of Dr. Earl Bradley

"A judge, not a jury, will decide the fate of a former Delaware pediatrician charged with sexually assaulting scores of young patients over more than a decade. At a hearing Monday, a judge granted Earl Bradley's request to waive his right to a jury trial. The judge also indicated that because selecting a jury untainted by media reports is no longer an issue, Bradley's trial may be moved from Wilmington back to Sussex County..."

and

"...since defense attorneys do not intend to argue that Bradley is guilty but mentally ill, the judge said a psychiatric evaluation of Bradley that he had previously ordered is no longer necessary. Bradley's trial is set to begin June 1...."


A more detailed article:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/09/delaware.pediatrician.abuse/index.html?section=cnn_latest

"A Delaware pediatrician facing 529 felony counts of rape and other sexual offenses involving his young patients waived his right to a jury trial Monday, a court official said. Dr. Earl Bradley told Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. on Monday morning that he did not want his fate decided by a jury of his peers..."

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[Steely Dan]

Whoa....Does this mean he's going to simply plead guilty?


http://www.wmdt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14599467

BREAKING NEWS: A Judge Will Decide The Fate Of Dr. Earl Bradley

"A judge, not a jury, will decide the fate of a former Delaware pediatrician charged with sexually assaulting scores of young patients over more than a decade. At a hearing Monday, a judge granted Earl Bradley's request to waive his right to a jury trial. The judge also indicated that because selecting a jury untainted by media reports is no longer an issue, Bradley's trial may be moved from Wilmington back to Sussex County..."

and

"...since defense attorneys do not intend to argue that Bradley is guilty but mentally ill, the judge said a psychiatric evaluation of Bradley that he had previously ordered is no longer necessary. Bradley's trial is set to begin June 1...."


A more detailed article:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/09/delaware.pediatrician.abuse/index.html?section=cnn_latest

"A Delaware pediatrician facing 529 felony counts of rape and other sexual offenses involving his young patients waived his right to a jury trial Monday, a court official said. Dr. Earl Bradley told Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. on Monday morning that he did not want his fate decided by a jury of his peers..."

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With a jury trial he would have had a 1 out of 12 chance of someone thinking he's not guilty. Now he has to prove to a very educated man about the law and who's seen a lot of defense tactics in the past that he's not guilty. I'd imagine he's looking for a plea deal.The only plea deal he should get is that he'll be let out of prison the day after he dies.

 

[believe09]

I think he is pleading guilty. What a relief for his victims and the families of his victims.

 

[Missizzy]

I think so too, Believe. I'm very pleased that no victims nor their families will have to testify. What I'm hoping, though, is that there's some sort of hearing similar to the one in Oregon for Jeanette Maples' mother concerning the evidence against him. I believe that parents (really everyone) deserve to know how this man accomplished his crimes for so many years. He moved from one hospital and clinic and office to another, repeating the same crimes. I think a lot can be learned from this monster's tactics.

 

[Missizzy]

Nobody wants it....

http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110517/DW01/110517031

At sheriff sale, no bidders for Dr. Earl Bradley's old office

"The abandoned Baybees Pediatrics building, where prosecutors allege Earl B. Bradley terrorized more than 100 patients, will become bank-owned property following a sheriff sale today...."

and

"....when it came time to bid, no one bit on the $78,500 price tag set by an attorney for Delaware National Bank, now owned by Fulton Bank...."

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[believe09]

Bull doze it.

 

[belimom]

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've been following the case closely since it broke and I think I can answer in context. With our 14, our pediatrician never left the room with an infant or toddler. We were asked to step out or even offered to when they reached their teens, though. We wanted them to have the opportunity to ask any question that might embarrass them in front of us. However, specialists have taken our children out of our sight and therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists always do. There's a real conundrum there. I believe we have a great discussion somewhere upthread about options.

I've read the local comments about this case from the beginning and it's quite clear that Bradley was known to be "eccentric". But he was sharp. He seemed to pick and choose his victims carefully, as most successful pedophiles do. There were some parents that never had a problem with him while others only went once as they didn't feel comfortable. He saw children from all walks of life--even LEO's children.

His MO was to take the child to a special toy room to pick out a prize or a treat while the parent was busy at the front desk. Many children were returned to their parent crying. Bradley would be fussing over the child and encouraging them to enjoy their candy or toy and mom or dad just thought that the child was crying as they'd had an injection and were still upset. It wasn't until a toddler actually told her father what happened that he got caught.

However, he also digitally penetrated a number of little girls while their parents were in the room. He had a trick of blocking the parents view of the child's genitals. This is common for doctors to do with teens while a parent of the opposite sex is present but not at all for toddlers or babies. My guess is that these parents just thought it was common practice. He came highly recommended by staff at the hospital where many of the babies were born and I can easily see how a new parent could be tricked. He also carried a pen camera to film his abuses. All doctors have pens in their pocket. Who would expect that? Another thing he did which is really disturbing is that he frequently catheterized little girls rather than allowing them to give a urine specimen the usual way. He claimed that was the only way he could get a sterile specimen. That is not common practice for well children. For anyone who's been catheterized, it hurts like heck and any child would cry. I think he covered up some of the abuse by blaming it on the "required" catheterization. He was just full of tricks.

FWIW, the parents took quite a beating in local comments. There were many cruel statements that they were to blame and "I'd NEVER leave my child alone with anyone!!" Yeah, right. What about relatives, child care workers, the school bus driver, the goofy teen next door? It's impossible to keep your eyes on any child 24/7 unless you want to emotionally hinder your child. They'll learn to be fearful of everyone if a parent acts in that manner. IMO, these parents simply had the misfortune to stumble into the lair of a monster. I have every reason to believe that many of the parents will have more lasting trauma than most of the children. Most were preverbal and they will likely have fear of doctors or medical procedures but they were too young to understand the pain. In many cases, the pain would register in a similar way to any number of painful interventions. The parents, however, will blame themselves. And that breaks my heart as I've been there. It's a hard place to crawl out of. My hope is that the children and parents are being offered an array of services to help them heal.

Bradley was an expert at what he did. He put every ounce of his energy into it. If you read back through the thread, there are many many red flags from much earlier in his life. I'd sure like to hear the whole story as I feel that parents can benefit by learning how this crime can be committed right under their nose. In fact, many pedophiles consider that the most thrilling challenge of all.

 

[belimom]

Thank you, Missizzy, for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response. You're right - our children are young enough that they don't need that much 'privacy' when with a physician. I do see how older ones would want that privacy. Also, our pediatrician works part-time out of a home office, so it's not a large or busy place. Having been to large/busy doctor offices myself, I can understand how parents go to pay the bill, or the child is taken for a specimen, etc.

God bless these families and children.

 

[Missizzy]

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/...rial-goes-back-Sussex-County?odyssey=nav|head

Sex abuse trial goes back to Sussex County

"The criminal case against Dr. Earl B. Bradley, the former Lewes pediatrician accused of hundreds of incidents of child sexual abuse, is going back where it started...."

and

"Bradley's bench trial is now set to begin June 1 at 10 a.m., according to the brief order entered on the court docket...."

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