Earl Bradley, Ex-Pediatrician Sentenced To 14 Life Sentences Without Parole Plus Additional 160 Years

The Delaware pediatrician charged with raping or sexually abusing 103 of his patients over a 10-year period formally pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in Sussex County Superior Court this afternoon.

Fifty-six-year-old Earl B. Bradley of Lewes faces 471 charges including rape, sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful sexual contact, continuous sexual abuse of a child, assault, and reckless endangering. He is being held on $2.9 million bail.

Public defenders Dean Johnson and Stephanie Tsantes are representing Bradley and entered the not guilty plea on his behalf. Bradley's two private lawyers left the case after the attorney general's office moved to freeze his assets, making it difficult for them to hire experts and mount a defense.

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What a picture!! I can't believe that he fooled people for so long with looks like that!

Also, how can he plead "not guilty" when they have video evidence (that he himself took) of him molesting & abusing children? How dumb does he think we are?!?

He looks like a homeless, drunken bum!!!!!

Hell would freeze over before I would let him get w/in a football field of my grandchildren!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Earl Bradley stood silently as his public defenders entered a plea of not guilty to 471 counts including charges of rape, sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful sexual contact, continuous sexual abuse of a child, assault, and reckless endangering.
The mothers of two of Bradley's 103 alleged victims sat sobbing in the court room, there among the more than 40 spectators that attended the hearing. Resident Judge T. Henley Graves increased Bradley's bail from $2.9 million cash to $4.71 million - $10,000 on each of the 471 counts detailed in February's grand jury indictment.

Bradley is accused of repeatedly raping and abusing his patients, 102 girls and one boy, some as young as three months, over the span of more than ten years, beginning in December 1998. Police say that Bradley videotaped many of his "sessions" which included forcing children as young as three months old to engage in intercourse and oral sex, the Delaware News Journal reported.

At least five of the girls appeared to lose consciousness and stop breathing, according to the indictment.

Bradley was arrested in December 2009 after a 2-year-old girl told her mother that the doctor hurt her in December when he took her to a basement room of his Lewes office after an exam.

But reports of suspected abuse were filed as early as 2005 when a mother reported that her daughter asked her "why did Dr. Bradley kiss [her] tongue" and again in 2008 when another parent reported inappropriate vaginal exams. Both times prosecutors and judges refused to pursue the case citing insufficient evidence to issue search warrants.

Finally, after the December 2009 report authorities were able to convince a judge to sign arrest and search warrants. The indictment estimates that in that year time lapse between the 2008 denial and the 2009 arrest warrant at least 47 new children were abused, some repeatedly.

The judge scheduled a status conference in the case for May 17.

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Fri, Apr 2, 2010


A Lewes attorney has filed a civil lawsuit against Dr. Earl Bradley, Beebe Medical Center, the Medical Society of Delaware and three doctors, citing negligence, willful and wanton conduct, and failure to report Bradley’s conduct.
Attorney Chase Brockstedt of Bifferato Gentilotti has filed the suit on behalf of parents, F. and M. Doe, and their daughter, named D. Doe. The girl is now 2 years old but was abused when she was 17 months old. The parents have sued anonymously to protect the family’s identity and prevent unwanted public attention to the abuse suffered by the child.

Brockstedt is requesting a jury trial. The suit states that at the time of her pregnancy, M. Doe was an obstetrics patient of a physician in Milford.
Because her obstetrician also had privileges at Beebe, the birth was scheduled to take place at Beebe. Upon reviewing Beebe’s website, M. Doe learned Bradley enjoyed hospital privileges there.
She contacted Bradley’s BayBees Pediatrics office and requested an interview with Bradley.

Bradley’s office told her the pediatrician did not grant interviews but that he would be the on-call pediatrician at the time of the birth. The mother was told by Bradley’s office to inform the nursing staff at Beebe that Bradley was her pediatrician. Prior to the birth, members of the nursing staff at Beebe told the mother that Bradley was “a great doctor” who lived close to the hospital. Bradley was the only pediatrician identified and came highly recommended by the nursing staff.
Because of the recommendations of the staff, and because he enjoyed hospital privileges at Beebe, Bradley became D. Doe’s physician.
“As a direct and proximate consequence of D. Doe becoming a patient of defendants Bradley and BayBees, Bradley was able to perpetrate acts of sexual abuse upon D. Doe,” the suit says.
Because Beebe empowered Bradley to act on the hospital’s behalf, Bradley was subject to the direction, supervision and control of the medical center. The suit says Beebe was on notice of prior unprofessional conduct by Bradley – the suit does not include a date – including suspicions of sexual abuse and allegations of sexual abuse.

As a direct consequence of Bradley’s conduct, the family was damaged sexually, physically, mentally and emotionally, the suit says.
In a second count, the suit alleges that Bradley’s crimes constitute civil assault and battery and lays liability at the feet of Bradley, BayBees and Beebe.
A third count charges Bradley and BayBees with medical negligence, making BayBees liable for Bradley’s conduct.
Beebe is also cited for medical negligence.
The suit says Beebe had a duty – and failed – to properly credential, qualify, select and investigate Bradley, when it knew or should have known that Bradley’s conduct could endanger public health, safety and welfare. In addition, the suit says Beebe did not properly monitor Bradley’s conduct and failed to report Bradley to the Board of Medical Practice or to Child Protective Services and failed to revoke, suspend or terminate Bradley when the hospital heard about the doctor’s conduct.
Brockstedt added that from 2004-05 – when Bradley was investigated for child sexual abuse charges in Milford – and the time when D. Doe was abused, Beebe twice recredentialed Bradley.
Besides Bradley and Beebe, the suit also alleges a failure to report Bradley’s conduct against the medical society and doctors James Marvel, Carol Tavani and Lowell Scott. Marvel maintains an office in Lewes, Scott has a practice in Milford and Tavani works for Christiana Psychiatric Services in Newark. The suit says the doctors had knowledge that Bradley had engaged in unprofessional conduct.
Beebe Medical Center, Scott and Tavani were not available for comment. Marvel’s office said Marvel is not making comments at this time.
All three doctors and the medical society were also named in a similar suit filed by Wilmington attorney Bruce Hudson.
The suit says all defendants acted negligently and the family is seeking general and special damages, punitive damages, attorney fees and any pre- or post-trial judgments.

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Good for them! If my daughter had been molested by this "monster"... I would be suing too!! This should be a "wake up" call to other medical professionals who may be suspicious of a colleague - they have a duty to report him, and at least have him investigated.

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April 19, 2010 6:27 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A Delaware pediatrician was indicted Wednesday on 58 additional counts of rape and other sexual offenses in the alleged child abuse of his patients, state Attorney General Beau Biden announced Monday.

Dr. Earl Bradley, 56, previously pleaded not guilty to 471 felony counts involving 102 girls and one boy.

Wednesday's indictment -- which includes charges of rape, unlawful sexual contact, continuous sexual abuse of a child and sexual exploitation -- involves 24 girls he saw as patients from 1999 to 2009.

Biden has said the charges are based on "video and digital evidence" seized from Bradley's home and medical practice in December, when the doctor was arrested.

Bradley, whose practice was in Lewes, Delaware, also has medical licenses in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida. Authorities have said they have contacted officials in those states.

In a February 24 interview with CNN, Bradley's attorney said he would base his client's defense on mental health.

"Most of the evidence in this case comes from videotapes -- it's kind of hard to argue with videotapes," Eugene Maurer Jr. said. He added, "The issue in this case is going to come down to his mental health at the time."

"It's kind of hard to argue with videotapes," said his attorney, who plans a mental instability defense. Bradley is charged with attacking his patients in special "play rooms," where parents were not allowed. He was cleared of wrongdoing by a Delaware hospital just 2 years before his arrest late last year when a nurse reported inappropriate touching of his young female patients, reports ABC News.

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Class action status being sought for Bradley case

The number of lawsuits being filed against former Lewes pediatrician, Dr. Earl Bradley is growing – and now lawyers are seeking class-action status. That request was made earlier this week by three attorneys who are representing a 12 year old allegedly sexually abused by Bradley. If class action status is approved – over 7000 of Bradley’s patients and former patients would have to be notified. Bradley faces over 700 charges in the sexual abuse of over 100 young patients.

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The latest attempt to extend the time frame victims have to report abuse is a direct response to the case against a Lewes pediatrician accused of sexually abusing more than 100 young patients.

Members of the State House approved HB 326 earlier this week in a 36 to 2 vote. The measure would create a two year window for victims of child abuse at the hand of a health care provider to file civil lawsuits against the abuser.

Bill sponsor House Majority Leader Pete Schwartzkopf (D- Rehoboth) says the measure is very similar to the Child Victims Act, which was passed in 2007 to respond to cases of priest abuse that, in some cases, happened many decades ago. "We thought at the time that [the Child Victims Act] covered all of Delaware's children." But, after the accusations against Lewes pediatrician Earl Bradley, lawmakers learned that abuse by medical providers was not included in the Child Victims Act.

To fix the oversight in the 2007 act, Schwartzkopf says, "We've eliminated the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of a child by a health care provider, and we've created a two year look back window exactly like we did with the Child Victims Act."

He says he's hopeful that the bill will get quick approval in the state Senate. "This bill is designed to help protect our children, protect the families that have been abused and to provide some comfort and some financial resources for counseling and things of that nature that they might need."

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What went wrong in the case of a Delaware pediatrician accused of abusing more than a hundred patients? Everything did, we now know.

Dr. Earl Bradley was arrested last December on allegations of abuse dating back to the 1990s.

What's worse, investigators say red flags raised about Bradley went unnoticed and unreported.

On Monday, the Delaware Attorney General's Office released its report on what went wrong.

Fox 29's Dave Schratwieser reported the attorney generals' report says the system is broken and badly in need of repair. It points to widespread failures when it came to reporting Bradley's suspicious behavior with young female patients.

The failures go back to 1994 when Bradley was accused of touching a young child in Philadelphia. Delaware authorities knew about that, never did their own investigation and granted him a license to practice medicine anyway.

In 2005, when Delaware police investigated the doctor for allegations of touching a 3-year-old, state prosecutors decided there wasn't enough probable cause to prosecute. But the allegation was never reported to the state medical board in writing even though the law requires it.

And two doctors who had serious concerns about his actions never reported him to the state board of medical practice.

Even the hospital where he worked knew about allegations concerning the doctor and children but never reported them to the state board.

"We see defects in these statutes, and we see where some thing went wrong. But it's really asking too much of any statute, no matter how tight the reporting requirement is, to say, 'Gee, but for that phone call or but for that report, none of this ever would have happened," said Delaware Depute Attorney General Charles Butler said.

Bradley has been indicted on 500 counts of rape and other sexual assault offenses.. This case has been described as "the pedophilia case of the century" by some.

The doctor's own sister reported him to authorities, but that was never reported to the board of medical practice either.

Is anyone going to face charges for all these missteps? After five months of investigation, interviews with over 20 witnesses and a review of thousands of pages of documents, some of which authorities got with court orders, the answer is no.

The case is beyond the three-year statute of limitations for the civil charges that could have been brought here.

When asked if this was the perfect storm of things that could have gone wrong going wrong, Butler said, "I don't know that there's a system that you can draft or create that is sort of fool-proof and will catch 100 percent of the potential wrongdoers. So I'm not sure if I'd call this a perfect storm or just a fellow who found – just got through."

Finally, Attorney General Beau Biden's office and the state solicitor general have come up with more than 20 legal and procedural changes that should help prevent this from happening again.

The folks who put this report together will meet with the governor and state lawmakers soon to get these reforms acted on as quickly as possible, Schratwieser reported.

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WHO CARES! How does an attorney like his sleep at night is what I want to know.

Attorneys for the former Lewes pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting his patients say police illegally searched his practice and collected evidence, according to court documents.

Delaware State Police entered a checkerboard painted outbuilding at Earl Bradley's Lewes practice during December searches that was not listed in a December 15th search warrant, according to a motion to suppress filed July 9 in Sussex County Superior Court.

As a result, public defenders representing Bradley are asking a judge to throw out all evidence collected during searches on Dec. 16 and 17.

Attorneys for the accused pedophile argue in the documents that police only listed two out of three buildings on property, not including the checker-painted outbuilding.

Bradley is behind bars faces more than 500 charges. He's accused of sexually assaulting his young patients dating back to the 1990s.

"My first was shock and utter dismay that this could derail the prosecution of Earl Bradley," said a mother of one of Bradley's alleged victims who asked not to be identified to protect her child. "Coming so late, as this is, I think they're just throwing things out seeing what's going to stick to the wall."

In the motion, Bradley's defense attorneys also said police illegally viewed files on Bradley's computer thumb drives and overstepped their bounds by collecting computer evidence. Police were tasked with collecting medical files of eight children in the search warrant and nothing more, public defenders claimed in their motion.

A copy of the search warrant obtained by WBOC shows police asked to collect medical records on eight patients but also computer evidence on any other alleged victims.

The Delaware Department of Justice has received a copy of the motion and plans to file a response, said spokesman Jason Miller.

Bradley's trial is scheduled to begin on Feb. 14, 2011.

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A judge has set a hearing for later this month on whether state police illegally searched a building where they found critical computer evidence in the child sex abuse case against pediatrician Earl B. Bradley.



The hearing on a defense motion to suppress evidence seized from an outbuilding at Bradley's Lewes-area medical office has been scheduled for Aug. 31 by Superior Court Judge William Carpenter.

The motion claims that all the evidence seized during the two-day search of his office building and two outbuildings last year should be thrown out because the building in which video recordings allegedly of Bradley abusing his young patients were found was not covered by the search warrant.

Public defender Stephanie Tsantes declined to comment Monday about the hearing. Prosecutors have not yet filed a response to the defense motion.

The defense team wrote in court papers that police asked a judge to approve the search of only two buildings -- the main office building and a "white outbuilding." That clearly did not include the "checkerboard building," which was the larger of the two outbuildings and bore a distinctive patterned design, they wrote.

The checkerboard building was where police found a video file on a computer data-storage thumb drive that provided the cause for a new search warrant and the ramping-up of the investigation.

The attorneys also argued that police had no reason to search Bradley's computers, because they knew he did not keep medical records in digital format, and that the search warrant did not authorize the opening of video files.

Bradley's trial is slated for February, and is expected to be held in New Castle County after defense attorneys and prosecutors both expressed concerns about bias in the jury pool in Sussex and Kent counties and security issues when Bradley appears in court. Carpenter, the judge assigned to the case, is based in New Castle County.

Bradley is charged with raping or abusing more than 100 children over 10 years, and the investigation is continuing. Authorities have acknowledged many parents may never know if their child was abused.

Bradley also faces multiple civil lawsuits filed on behalf of some of his alleged victims.

Two state investigations and a series of articles in The News Journal have detailed how police and medical authorities in the state conducted five separate investigations of Bradley -- nearly all for inappropriate behavior with young girls -- from 1994 to 2009 before Bradley was arrested and charged.

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What about the kids and parents that are suffering because of this pervert? Damn the red tape!!

Del.- Delaware State Police stood behind their testimony in Superior Court Wednesday despite receiving a grilling on the witness stand from public defenders who claim police illegally searched accused pedophile Earl Bradley's former office.

The hearing marked the second day of testimony for a request by the defense attorneys but ended without a final decision. Public defenders are asking Judge William Carpenter Jr. to toss out evidence seized by police from a search of the Lewes office on Dec. 16, 2009.

Bradley's attorneys argue police overstepped their bounds, entering buildings and collecting items that weren't listed on the search warrant.

Bradley, 57, is accused of sexually assaulting more than 100 patients and faces hundreds of child sex charges. The defendant sat in court in a dark gray prison jumpsuit, shackled at the feet, as his lawyers drilled police to explain their actions.

The defense tried to portray the police work as sloppy. At least three detectives admitted under oath they did not read the warrant before conducting the search. Some said they weren't given specific limitations on what to search or seize.

State police investigator Thomas Elliott said Tuesday he saw what he believed were two buildings on Bradley's property when looking from the street and did not include smaller outbuildings on site in the search warrant because he assumed they were part of the main office.

The lead investigator repeatedly said he made the decision to enter all four buildings on site, even though the warrant only included two, because he felt the warrant was sufficient. When recalled to the stand late Wednesday, public defender Dean Johnson asked Elliott why he did not consult with an attorney from the Justice Department heading to the scene before entering.

Bradley's attorneys also argue police went too far in collecting computers, cameras and thumb drives after medical files of seven children listed in the warrant had already been retrieved.

Detective Kevin Perna testified police removed the electronic devices because medical files could potentially be altered from a remote location. Public defenders asked how Bradley could alter the files if he was in police custody by the time of the search.

Detective James Spillan, with the High Tech Crimes Unit, told the court the number of thumb drives in the buildings led him to believe documents or records were being stored digitally and justified their seizure. Spillan said he later reviewed the files and discovered what he thought was Bradley about to inappropriately touch a 2-year-old girl.

Public defender Stephanie Tsantes asked how Spillan could search the thumb drives if he did not know the names of the alleged victims listed in the search warrant.

Spillan admitted he did not know the alleged victims' names or if the paper copies of their medical files had already been retrieved by other officers. The detective said he planned to look for anything that remotely resembled a medical file and then alert the lead investigator.

Bradley was attentive and alert during the proceedings, at some points speaking with his lawyers. He appeared to have lost weight but looked otherwise healthy.

Both sides have finished with witnesses but no decision has been made. Carpenter did not indicate when he would hand down his decision. Bradley's trial and jury selection is scheduled to begin Feb. 14, 2011.

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WOW!! And our VP's son dropped the ball on this one.

The judge could order a mistrial and this pervert could walk.

If that happened, Bradley would take about 2 steps outside the courtroom and someone would take him out!

The first shot in the battle to suppress video evidence allegedly showing Lewes pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley sexually assaulting children has been fired.
Bradley’s defense team has filed its opening brief in its motion to suppress and says the Delaware State Police went beyond the parameters of a warrant to search Bradley’s offices.
The defense – Dean Johnson, Stephanie Tsantes and Robert Goff of the state Public Defender’s Office – moved to suppress video evidence purportedly showing Bradley sexually assaulting young children at his BayBees Pediatrics office.
Bradley’s defense team argued, at a two-day hearing Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, that the warrant states police were to search only for medical records of eight children suspected of being abused by Bradley. In addition, the defense says, police were authorized to search only Bradley’s main office and a white outbuilding on the property. The BayBees facility included two other buildings. At the hearing, Det. Thomas Elliott said the main office and the white-and-black-painted checkerboard building were all that was visible from the road. He said police did not go on the property prior to the search warrant being executed.
While the warrant specifies “computer files” to be searched, the defense said the warrant does not include searching for child pornography.
“It is patently clear that on Dec. 16, 2009, the police were searching for pornography. Their inconsistent and illogical testimony at the suppression hearing clearly shows them scrambling desperately for a rationale that will uphold the warrant as well as the search they conducted under its auspices,” the brief said.
The defense states computer evidence seized by police was “the fruit of an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the state and federal constitutions.”
In its primary argument, the defense says the warrant was devoid of any facts to support a reason to believe Bradley hid any of his patient files or stored any of his patient files on a computer. In addition, the brief says the warrant disclosed no reason to search the “checkerboard” building and no facts stated in the warrant support the notion Bradley kept patient files there.
Bradley’s defense says the search warrant does not explicitly say how Bradley’s patient files would prove that he had committed any crimes.
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“It cites a ‘pattern’ of complaints of inappropriate examinations and conduct toward female child patients. It repeats the irrelevant fact that Bradley had security cameras on premises. It recites meaninglessly that Bradley has been observed manipulating digital photographs of patients,” the brief said. “These conclusions are unsupported by any facts, and Elliott never discloses in the warrant the nature of the corroboration for which he is searching.”
The defense says the law does not permit the issuing judge to guess what an officer’s reasons are for seizing items in a search warrant; those reasons must be in the warrant itself.
In closing, the brief reiterates the defense request to have the video evidence suppressed as the result of an unlawful seizure.
“The police conducted the search they wanted to conduct, not the one a judge had authorized,” the brief concludes.
“Their scanty investigation of the premises combined with their hasty and ill-advised decision made at the scene to ignore the warrant they had in hand so that they could rummage through every building and every computer on Dec. 16, 2009, inexcusably deprived Bradley of his rights under the Fourth Amendment.”
The next step in the suppression motion is for the Department of Justice to file an answer brief. Once the briefs are in hand, Judge William Carpenter will deliberate on suppressing the video evidence.
Carpenter’s office said there is no timetable for when a decision will be made.
Bradley has been accused of the rape and sexual exploitation of more than 120 children over an 11-year span. He is awaiting a scheduled Feb. 21, 2011 trial at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Institute in Smyrna.


Suspects break into Bradley offices
Delaware State Police have charged two men in connection with a burglary attempt at the former offices of accused pedophile Dr. Earl Bradley.
According to the police, a silver vehicle was noticed parked in the rear of Bradley’s old BayBees Pediatrics office on Route 1 in Lewes. Police were called to the scene after a citizen noticed suspicious activity, including the sound of something breaking and seeing two people traveling back and forth between their vehicle and the office.
Police arrested Garrett Coco, 22, of Harbeson and Justin Oberholtzer, 24, of Lewes, at the scene. Oberholtzer and Coco entered one of the buildings on the property by removing a screen from a window.
The back door to the main office had muddy shoe prints on it that police say came from when Oberholtzer and Coco kicked it in.
Police said a search of the vehicle produced two TV monitors, a stoplight, power tools, two heaters, an air nailer and a portable air conditioner. The property was worth approximately $2,000.
Police charged Oberholtzer and Coco with burglary. The two men are incarcerated at Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown in lieu of $2,500 secured bond.

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“Their scanty investigation of the premises combined with their hasty and ill-advised decision made at the scene to ignore the warrant they had in hand so that they could rummage through every building and every computer on Dec. 16, 2009, inexcusably deprived Bradley of his rights under the Fourth Amendment.”

What a crock!!!! This man is SO guilty. I am sure the parents don't want the video's shown of their children with this perv, but if it helps to convict him, it has to be done. I could not/would not be in the court room if that were my grandchild. Ther mere thought makes my blood boil!!

These defense attorneys sound like Bozo.

And why would anyone break into the perv's office and steal power tools, a stop light, a nail gun, and other such things??? Color me confused!!

Delaware State Police destroyed the belongings of an accused pedophile Jan. 26 after removing them from a self-storage unit in Rehoboth Beach, Del. and taking them to an offsite, undisclosed location.

Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician accused of rape and abuse of more than 100 children over 10 years, had been storing belongings at Secure Self Storage in Rehoboth Beach and eventually went delinquent on his account. The facility, at the urging of the community and the state attorney general, did not auction the items in a lien sale but instead allowed law enforcement to seize the items. Many feared if the items were made public, alleged victims may experience emotional trauma.

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6/23/2011

Earl Bradley, 58, accused of raping or assaulting more than 100 girls he treated, was convicted of all 24 counts of rape, assault and sexual exploitation that he faced in Sussex Superior Court here.

The verdict was expected: Evidence of the attacks included videos that he recorded and Bradley's lawyers did not mount any defense. Instead, they are expected to appeal an earlier ruling from Judge William Carpenter Jr. that 13 hours of videos seized from Bradley's office was admissible.

A state police detective who viewed the videos said during the trial that Bradley used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a few girls who were "ashen gray" from choking and suffocation after he forced them to perform oral sex on him.

Pediatrician's alleged victims may surpass 103

The videos also show children in diapers screaming as they attempt in vain to escape from their doctor before he rapes them in an outbuilding at his office where he took children for candy and toys. In one case at his home, a video shows Bradley using nitrous oxide to keep a sleeping 7-year-old girl sedate during his attack, police testified.

The courtroom was quiet and subdued as Carpenter, who decided the case without a jury, read the verdict.

Bradley followed along reading a handout of the verdict as Carpenter read it aloud. Corrections officers then handcuffed Bradley and took him away. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 26 and faces life in prison for each count.

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08/26/11
Former Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley will spend the rest of his life in prison for committing horrific acts of sexual abuse against scores of young patients over more than a decade, a judge ruled Friday.

Bradley, 58, showed no emotion as Judge William Carpenter Jr. sentenced him to 14 life sentences without parole for 14 counts of first-degree rape. Bradley also was sentenced to more than 160 years in prison for multiple counts of assault and sexual exploitation of a child.
Under state law, a life sentence is mandatory for a person convicted of rape against three or more separate victims.

"You will never be in a position to harm a child again," Carpenter told Bradley, saying the serial pedophile had violated the trust of his patients and their families, the morals of the southern Delaware community of Lewes, and his oath as a medical professional to do no harm to his patients.

"You have severely violated that trust, and you have shamed your profession," Carpenter told Bradley.

Before sentencing Bradley, the judge addressed the families of his victims, some of whom have struggled with broken relationships stemming from their ordeal and guilt for allowing the doctor to be alone with their children.

"You must realize that you are not at fault, and that you and your children have done nothing wrong," Carpenter said.

Some women in the courtroom wept as prosecutor Paula Ryan recounted Bradley's crimes and asked Carpenter to impose the maximum sentences, saying "every minute of every day should be as difficult as possible for Earl Bradley to endure ..."

"No amount of jail time, no punishment, will ever be sufficient enough to compensate for the damage that Earl Bradley did to these children, to their families, to the community in Lewes, to medical and health care professionals, to every single person in the state of Delaware," Ryan said.

"Earl Bradley committed unspeakable acts upon those who could not speak for themselves," she added. ".... To make indescribable and horrific matters even worse, he videotaped these incidents for his own perverse pleasure, endlessly editing and copying, permanently memorializing his attacks on these children for his own twisted collection."

Public defender Dean Johnson did not address the court, and Bradley also chose not to speak.

"It's the sentence that was expected," Johnson said afterward, adding that Bradley "is putting great stock" in the defense's appeal of a ruling by Carpenter allowing the videotapes of Bradley's sexual assaults to be admitted as evidence.

After escaping prosecution following two previous police investigations of complaints of improper contact with patients, Bradley was arrested in December 2009 after a 2-year-old girl complained to her mother after an office visit that the doctor had hurt her. The child had made a similar complaint to her father after an earlier visit.

Bradley's sister, who worked in his office, had told police in 2005 that her brother was bipolar and taking medication from the office, and that several parents had complained about Bradley inappropriately touching patients.

Two pediatricians interviewed by police in 2005 also told investigators about complaints from Bradley's former patients.

Acting upon the 2009 complaint, investigators finally arrested Bradley and searched his Lewes office complex, decorated with Disney themes and miniature amusement park rides. They seized dozens of homemade videos from an outbuilding where Bradley had lured patients with promises of treats and toys.

Bradley's public defenders presented no defense at his trial, opting instead for a swift verdict so they could more quickly appeal Carpenter's decision to allow the videos as evidence. The defense contends they were improperly seized by investigators acting outside the scope of their search warrant.

Johnson said Friday that he would file notice of the appeal within days.

After Carpenter allowed the tapes into evidence, Bradley waived his right to a jury trial. At a one-day bench trial in June, prosecutors presented testimony from two police investigators and gave Carpenter more than 13 hours of videos showing sex crimes against more than 80 victims, most of whom were toddlers.

In his testimony, state police detective Scott Garland described the rapes caught on video as brutal and violent. He explained how some videos showed Bradley with his hands wrapped tightly around the heads of young children, violently forcing them to perform oral sex on him. When Bradley was finished with such assaults, he would lift up the young victims by the head and throw them several feet onto a couch in the rear of the building where investigators found the damning videos, Garland testified. Bradley sometimes would perform "rescue breathing" and chest rubs to revive the semiconscious victims, the detective added.

Attorney General Beau Biden, who cited his desire to see Bradley's prosecution through its conclusion as the reason he opted not to run for the U.S. Senate seat once held by his father, said the state had achieved its first objective of ensuring that Bradley will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Biden said the second objective is helping the families of Bradley's victims cope with what has happened to them.

"That's a job that never ends," he said.

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