TWISTED PAEDIATRICIAN RAPED 103 CHILDREN WHILE PARENTS WAITED OUTSIDE IS JAILED FOR LIFE
A depraved paediatrician who raped and abused 103 children, some just months old, carried out a decade-long reign of terror, leaving countless young victims still scarred by his horrific crimes.Earl Bradley, then aged 56, was arrested in 2008 on 33 felony charges, including rape and sexual exploitation of a child, but the number of victims ultimately trebled.
The now 75-year-old is serving 14 life sentences in a Connecticut prison, having been convicted of filming the sexual acts while the children's parents waited in his BayBees Pediatric waiting room.
The 160-page indictment details Bradley's alleged conduct between 1998 and 2009.
Of the 103 children referenced, only one was male, according to ABC.
The 471-count indictment revealed Bradley forced children to perform sex acts on him, with some youngsters being molested repeatedly over a series of days or months.
One victim was raped by Bradley from June 2007 until February 2009, while another was molested "continuously" between November 2008 and November 2009.
A search of Bradley's medical practice uncovered more than 13 hours of video files, computers and hard drives, along with more than 7,000 patient files.
Safeguards within the system had repeatedly failed to prevent the abuse throughout the doctor's 15-year tenure in Delaware, with the state medical board having previously dismissed a complaint lodged by a mother against Bradley in Philadelphia.
Bradley's previous employer, Beebe Healthcare, ignored a nurse's warnings that Bradley had shown excessive affection towards children and routinely carried out unnecessary catheterisations - the insertion of a small tube into the urethra to collect a urine sample.
Both Beebe and the Medical Society were subject to legal proceedings from victims' families in what became a record-breaking £123 million class action settlement against an individual perpetrator.
Cate Evans, a counsellor specialising in trauma therapy who works with numerous sexual abuse survivors, including several Bradley survivors, explained that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often only manifests after abuse has taken place.
It's a vital reason why many states have revised statute of limitations legislation to allow civil claims long after abuse may have occurred.
Many of Evans' clients only recall their sexual abuse upon reaching 40.
She told Delaware Spotlight: "They've had a lifetime of really high anxiety or depression or other experiences, maybe addiction or other kinds of things, and didn't maybe understand why." Evans said when the body endures trauma, the mind can suppress feelings of fear as a protective response, with these emotions only resurfacing once we feel entirely safe and settled.
Memory is also divided into two distinct categories: explicit and implicit.
Evans clarified that explicit memory recalls vivid scenes and narratives that we can replay in our mind.
Implicit memory, on the other hand, is an experience stored within the senses — perhaps a scent that conjures a feeling of home without transporting you to a particular moment.
