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Delaware Pediatrician Charged With Rape Of Patients, Potentially Up To 100 Victims

12/24/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
On Wednesday 23 December 2009, officials from the State’s Attorneys’ Office of Delaware went public with charges that Dr. Earl B. Bradley raped or molested at least 100 children at his pediatric practice in Lewes, Del. Officials have already contacted authorities in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Bradley holds medical licenses in Florida and New Jersey and attended medical school in Pennsylvania. He moved to Delaware in 1994. It is unclear whether or not Bradley had ever practiced in any of those states.

Earl Bradley was uncovered as a pedophile after a girl told her parents that he had hurt her during an exam. It was common practice for Bradley to ask for parents to see their children alone without parental supervision. He recorded some of these sessions to play back at a later date. Because of the sheer volume of recorded data, it is unclear how many victims there were. Police are still trying to sort through the recordings found on video tapes, DVDs and a computer seized from Bradley’s home. “As of this moment, we have not identified all of the victims in this case, and the investigation is ongoing in an aggressive fashion,” Delaware Attorney General Joseph “Beau” Biden said in a press conference. Currently, Bradley is being held on a $2.9 million bond, and is being held in jail on thirty three felony charges relating to the abuse of seven victims. There are at least fifteen victims that they cannot identify, but are separate from the known victims. The current charges stem only from abuse committed between August and December of this year.

Some of the attacks are reported to have been violent, and one detective described there being an enraged expression on Bradley’s face during one attack. In a statement reported by the New York Times, Bradley’s attorney Eugene Maurer “The accusations are awful. But they are still just accusations.” He also stated that he was concerned that Bradley suffered from mental issues, but there had not been enough time to assess if that was the case yet.

Several complaints were lodged in 2008 and were investigated, but there was not enough evidence to move forward. In this case, the parents of the girl who made the first allegation made the complaint very soon after the abuse happened. Wallace Hudson of Beebe Medical Center stated that the hospital has made arrangements for counseling for parents and victims. His medical license has been suspended, and his patients taken on by other doctors in the area. His practice was located in Lewes, Delaware.

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