http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100223/NEWS01/100223004/Grand-jury-indicts-Dr.-Earl-Bradley-in-sexual-abuse-of-103-child-patients
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For nearly two months prosecutors have suggested that Dr. Earl B. Bradley, the alleged pedophile pediatrician from Lewes, had molested an untold number of children, far more than the nine he was charged in December with raping.

Today, the Attorney General’s Office made their suspicions official, with a Sussex County grand jury indicting Bradley in the rapes of 102 girls and one boy he treated, a more-than-tenfold increase in the number of victims originally alleged.


Bradley filmed many of his attacks, police have said, and for weeks investigators have been poring over hundreds of videotapes seized from his office and home as they amassed more evidence.


“I know that today’s indictment will reopen painful wounds for Lewes and the Sussex County community that has already been deeply traumatized,’’ said Attorney General Beau Biden, who announced the staggering toll detailed in the 471-count indictment that was handed up earlier in the day by a Sussex County grand jury.


The case against Bradley, believed to be one of the most heinous allegations of patient sexual abuse against a doctor in American history, will now move toward a trial that could take place later this year. Unless he posts $2.9 million cash bail, Bradley, 56, will await his day in court at the state prison near Smyrna.


Police and prosecutors have charged Bradley with almost unspeakable depravity -- holding toddlers upside down and yelling at them while committing sex acts; penetrating a girl's vagina with his hand when she was brought in for a sore throat. In one Dec. 13 recording -- made three days before his arrest, a 2- to 3-year-old girl was seen screaming and trying to run away from Bradley, police wrote.

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The indictment capped weeks of speculation about the extent of Bradley’s alleged crimes, which Biden said dated to at least 1998.


All of the attacks outlined in the indictment were discovered from video recordings that Bradley made, Biden said in a news conference in Dover, where he was flanked by state police and prosecutors.


Though police have documented attacks on 103 children, some as young as 3 months old, Biden and Paula Ryan, chief Sussex County prosecutor, said the identities of only some of the children are known. They would not say how many of the victims have been identified.


Victims were named in the indictment as Jane Doe or John Doe. They were forced to engage in a variety of sexual acts, including intercourse, MouthAction and handling, the indictment said.


The vast majority of the crimes occurred since 2007, the indictment said. One victim, Jane Doe No. 39, was raped 15 times over 13 months, prosecutors allege.

The case against Bradley could be the worst child sexual abuse by a pediatrician in American history, some abuse experts have said. Biden called it “unique” in Delaware history. Nationally, he said, “I know of no other [case] that has this many victims.”


The case now moves toward a trial that would be held late this year at the earliest. Unless he posts $2.9 million cash bail, Bradley, 56, will await his day in court at Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna.


Investigators from the state police and the FBI have completed their analysis of 13 hours of videotapes, computer hard drives and digital files seized from Bradley’s home and office, Biden said.