A grand jury has indicted a Delaware pediatrician on charges that he sexually assaulted more than 100 children over the last decade, filming the attacks on his patients in the creation of child pornography.
Dr. Earl Bradley faces 471 counts of child rape and sexual exploitation in an indictment handed down on Monday, which claims he raped 103 children between 1998 and 2009 and videotaped the attacks. All of the children were under the age of 16 and Bradley’s pediatric patients. In some cases, the alleged victims were only months old, and some children were raped on multiple occasions as parents and guardians brought them back to Bradley for medical care. All but one of the child abuse victims were girls.
Bradley, 56, conducted the attacks at his Lewes, Delaware, practice, BayBees Pediatrics, according to Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Prosecutors say that Bradley’s sexual attacks were so vicious that at least five female victims passed out during the assaults. Legal experts across the country say they cannot recall a case where one child sexual predator had so many victims. Police are still struggling to identify some of the children from hours of video seized from Bradley’s home and office.
Bradley, who was arrested in December and is being held in lieu of $2.9 million bail, has been investigated twice before, in 2005 and 2008, for alleged claims of excessive kissing and improper vaginal exams, but the investigations did not lead to an arrest, and there was no report submitted to the state’s medical board.
Police have seized 13 hours of video, computers, hard drives and patient files from his home and medical office. The state’s medical board has also revoked Bradley’s license to practice medicine in Delaware.