Trusted Pediatrician Charged with Molesting Kids

Earl Bradley is accused as Pediatric Pedophile. 
Is the Delaware Pediatrician is a rapist?

Warning: this is a true story as reported in several media outlets.  It is not for the squeamish, or those who don't like the pooh-pooh things of real life. (but for those interested in protecting your children, you should read and thoroughly understand what has happened here, in order to prevent it from becoming a part of your life!) 

Dr. Earl Bradley is a Delaware pediatrician charged with pedophilia. He has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with multiple acts of child rape and abuse - in what may be one of the worst cases of pedophilia in U.S. history.  Local authorities are working diligently to investigate multiple claims of both sexual and physical abuse, (our various state and federal laws still don't make much allowance for the "mental abuse" that accompanies either of those accepted legal descriptions of dispicable behavior by animals, posing as human saviors). 

This man was a trusted member of the local community, but the allegations apparently date back at least five years, and maybe more.  Where have the investigations into those early allegations gone?  Why was this man allowed to continue to perpetrate these heinous crimes on children?  Incompetent investigators?  Lack of prosecutorial interest?  Or even lack of understanding of the psychology behind such crimes? 

Dr. Earl Bradley

According to ABC News, the Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, says he expects more victims to come forward. Bradley, 46, is facing 471 separate counts of sexual assault and molestation. Over a ten year period, Bradley is believed to have raped and sexually exploited 102 girls and one boy since 1998 at the office of BayBees Pediatric in Lewes, Delaware, a community of 1300 persons.

The charges include first-degree and second-degree rape, unlawful sexual contact, sexual exploitation of a child and continuing sexual abuse of a child.

The indictment cites videos Bradley made of the various abusive incidents, which were seized from his office after investigators began looking into reports of child abuse last year.

Bradley allegedly videotaped sex acts while parents were waiting in a separate room.

Among the 471-count indictment includes allegations that Bradley forced children to perform sex acts on him as recently as Dec. 13.

Some of the children were allegedly molested continuously over a series of days or months. One victim was allegedly raped by Bradley from June 2007 until February 2009, and another was molested "continuously" between November 2008 until November 2009.

Biden said that some of the alleged victims were just months old.

The abuse of a 2-year-old girl started the investigation.  According to court documents obtained by ABCNews.com, the investigation was spurred after a 2-year-old girl told her mother that Bradley had touched her genitals and "hurt her" during a Dec. 7, 2009 appointment at Dr. Bradley's clinic.

According to the child's mother, Dr. Bradley first examined the toddler in her presence, but then "removed the victim to the basement of the office, where a toy room is located." 

When I heard the description on the Youtube® video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgtZtF3oTzM
and compared it to other news reports from the Google® research, I couldn't help but ask myself why a parent of either flavor would allow ANYONE to examine their child outside their viewing range, but it apparently happens, when the entire community fails to understand the realities of sexual molestation and pedophilia.

I have given presentations on the subject of "Protecting Your Child" to a couple of local chapters of Mothers of PreSchoolers, (MOPS), and almost universally, I have had someone ask questions like, "How can we tell if a person is a pedophile?" or "What does a pedophile look like?"  I always offer them two pieces of advice, during my one-hour-plus presentations:

• 1.) Pedophiles and Child Molesters need two basic things, (a) Access; and (b) Privacy. 
• 2.) There is no accepted physical description, or appearance of a pedophile -- THEY LOOK JUST LIKE ALL OF YOUR NEIGHBORS, THEY LOOK LIKE THE LOCAL BANKERS, DOCTORS, POLICE OFFICERS, CLERGYMEN, DENTISTS, STOCK BROKERS, ANYONE YOU MIGHT MEET ON THE STREET AT ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT.   

The mother told authorities that she permitted her daughter to be alone with Bradley "because of his position as a doctor" and because she "trusted him."  But, on the way home from the doctor, the mother alleges that her daughter said Bradley had sexually abused her while they were alone in the basement. The girl's father, who had taken to her to a previous appointment with Bradley, also told authorities his daughter had made a similar complaint to him in November.

I cannot think of a more naive line of thinking that might endanger a child. I'm not trying to single out this mother, or father, but asking that we consider our own thinking as a comparison, and learn something from their mistakes. I'm sure these parents have some serious issues dealing with that mistaken, misplaced, and unwarranted trust. 

In the small town of Lewes, with a citizenry of only 1,300, a videotape seized by law enforcement authorities shows this 6 foot, 225-pound man yell, violently, at a two-year old, demanding the child to "perform sexual acts on him."  Why did it take so long to issue the search warrant that led to the seizure of that video tape?

That particular video was described by the investigating officer in an affidavit as "one of the most violent and brutal attacks on a child of any age" that he had ever seen. 
Biden's office is dealing with questions as to why complaints dating from 2005 against Bradley were not taken to the State Board of Medical Practice. An investigation is ongoing.

Every citizen of the State of Delaware needs to question the reports of complaints against this man that date back to 2005, and why this was not thoroughly investigated back then.

Earl Bradley is being held in the Vaughn Correctional Center on $2.9 million cash bond.

As a Criminal Profiler, had I been aware of even the physical layout of the BayBees Child Clinic, as depicted on the YouTube® video, I would have raised red flags all over the town of Lewes.  We must consider all the things this man was willing to do, in order to accomplish his goals as a child molester/pedophile.  He went all the way through medical school, and specialized in pediatrics, just to gain access to those children.  He opened a business, hired at least a few employees, (although this aspect isn't clear from the current journalism on the case), paid taxes, bought, rented or leased a building, purchased all of the very unique, very expensive decorations, (see Buzz Lightyear and other large display items in the video), and went to such extremes to gain the entire community's trust in his personality, his business, and his profession. 

Think about it!  We should never allow a child molester/pedophile to work harder at gaining access the opportunty to sexually exploit our most precious resource -- our children.  Never forget that parents are the "First Line of Defense" against these monsters.  In some communities, that makes them the ONLY line of defense.

PARENTS, PLEASE BE AWARE    . . . .  AND BEWARE.  These perpetrators are out there, working just as hard as this guy, to get to your child.

I can only hope that the people of the Great State of Delaware will be asking why this was allowed to continue for so long, while there were active allegations over such al ong period of time.  They need to wonder aloud about how many additional victims were added because of an inadequate initial response.  These crimes need expert attention from the very first moment they are suspected.