GUILTY DE - Dr. Earl Bradley for sex abuse, child *advertiser censored*, Lewes, 2009

[Dani_md]

Dani - you are very trusting. I am glad that you feel that secure with others.
I never will.

I don't trust anyone with my child. But I just took her from getting weighed and didn't want to take her back out in the cold. The nurse was in the hallway with me and offered to hold her while I ran out to the car which took less then a minute. I trusted the nurse to watch her for that minute. Now if the doctor wanted to take her alone or the nurse wanted to take her alone I would object. In the situation I was in several other staff members were present and they stood at the door to the waiting room. I don't think that was a bad decision at all. Now if we lived in a city where the office was in a sky rise and I had to take an elevator to get to the ground floor then go to a parking garage, she would have came with me!I didn't leave her for a substantial amount of time nor was she left alone. When a child gets surgery the parent can't go back with them. You simply must trust your child is safe. I think Dr. Bradley should burn in hell for what he did. And I am not one of them people who say oh my dr would never do that. Shoot the first time my husband was left alone with my daughter since she was a few months old was a couple weeks ago. She fell asleep before I left for the grocery store. I am the paranoid type who hears about men shaking babies all the time and it scares me cause men have no patience. He knows that and absolutely reassured me she would be fine. The only people who she has been alone in the care of is my parents, sister, or his grandmother. Nobody else and she never stays the night anywhere! Sorry if I came off as too trusting but in that situation it was a lot different then letting my child go to the basement with someone for 10-13 minutes!

 

[jjenny]

I just want to say that my cousin's stepson was a patient of this monster. From birth to 3 years. Once my cousin started taking him to his Dr's appts her hinky meter went off and they pulled him out 5 years ago! Unfortunately, his 3 yr old step brother was a patient there currently. I don't know if anything has happened or not with either and really don't want to know!...

I think so far all the alleged victims are female.

 

[not_my_kids]

I don't think he was selling anything. I think they were for his personal use. Most pedophiles are collectors.

Collectors of what?
Studies have shown that only 25-50% of pedophiles partake of child *advertiser censored*. I linked one of them in the Parking Lot, I'll have to go find it.

 

[Dani_md]

I always thought serial killers were collecters and pedo's had rings!

 

[Missizzy]

Linda--I'm really wondering about the selling vs. strictly personal use issue. Why do you think he wouldn't be selling? He would have access to some awfully "valuable" images. I've always thought, maybe incorrectly, that some pedophiles do share and trade. That would explain the different ages. It's really hard for me to accept that he was attracted to both a 2 month old and a 13 year old. I would surmise that that might be for the purpose of having something to trade.

I just had a horrid thought. You don't think that he trades with another doctor, do you? There was that comment on one of the news forums about him seeing other doctors' children. I found that odd, given his strange demeanor.

 

[southcitymom]

We know so little about pedophiles. Yes, some collect and some collect and trade and sell. Also, as NMK pointed out, one study indicates that less than half of them "use" *advertiser censored*.

Like missizzy, I have a feeling he might have sold - just because he had access to so many children of different ages and we know he was recording so he's into that aspect of it. But who knows, that's just a feeling of mine.

 

[Missizzy]

Dani_md--You made a statement in your post above (much of what I agree with), that I feel I need to respond to. You said:

".......it scares me cause men have no patience."

In defense of some incredibly calm, level-headed, patience-of-Job men (notably my husband and a few of my adult sons and sons-in-law), I'd like to point out that not all men are inpatient or untrustworthy or unavailable with babies and children. You are certainly correct that men (and women too) who are not attached to a particular child can be impatient and make foolish decisions especially if they are pushed to the brink by a "storm" of stressors.

But, I'd like to reassure you that men can be unbelievably kind, caring, and calm caregivers. I've watched my husband for 35 years and he amazes me. My older sons are following in their Dad's footsteps and exhibiting remarkable parenting skills. Sometimes, after a phone call to an adult son's house on a Mom's night out, I am flabbergasted with how much good sense, humor, and love my sons show their babies and toddlers. I hear them wrangling toddlers in and out of the bath, respectfully asking them to put down the dog...again, and to stop eating the catfood. I actually fell in love with my now son-in-law when I watched him collect my daughter's 6 year old child from our house one evening where she'd fallen asleep. He gently gathered her sleeping body into his arms and protected her so lovingly as he carried her down the stairs. She sighed into his arms. I watched the trust between them. That's the moment I knew he was a keeper. When I gave the toast at their wedding this summer, I told this story.

I am fortunate to live in a community where Dads take as active a roll in parenting as Moms do. It's wonderful and refreshing to see.

Off my soapbox but wanted to speak up for the great Dads and "stand-in Dads" out there. They have my undying gratitude.

 

[impatientredhead]

We know so little about pedophiles. Yes, some collect and some collect and trade and sell. Also, as NMK pointed out, one study indicates that less than half of them "use" *advertiser censored*.

Like missizzy, I have a feeling he might have sold - just because he had access to so many children of different ages and we know he was recording so he's into that aspect of it. But who knows, that's just a feeling of mine.

Keep in mind the stats on sex offenders are based on the data they themselves provide in therapy. Which leads to the question of how many of them are lying about their habits and if they are not lying then the real data is that sex offenders who accept or seek treatment partake in child *advertiser censored* at such and such a rate.

Same for data based on criminal charges. Just because they are not found with child *advertiser censored* doesn't mean they don't partake.

The fact that he had hospital privileges is horrifying to me. As if his patients weren't vulnerable enough. I wonder how many sedated patients he has had access to.

I remain resolute in my position that he should be executed asap. He is on video raping a screaming child. Prosecution rests. Done.

 

[Dani_md]

Dani_md--You made a statement in your post above (much of what I agree with), that I feel I need to respond to. You said:

".......it scares me cause men have no patience."

In defense of some incredibly calm, level-headed, patience-of-Job men (notably my husband and a few of my adult sons and sons-in-law), I'd like to point out that not all men are inpatient or untrustworthy or unavailable with babies and children. You are certainly correct that men (and women too) who are not attached to a particular child can be impatient and make foolish decisions especially if they are pushed to the brink by a "storm" of stressors.

But, I'd like to reassure you that men can be unbelievably kind, caring, and calm caregivers. I've watched my husband for 35 years and he amazes me. My older sons are following in their Dad's footsteps and exhibiting remarkable parenting skills. Sometimes, after a phone call to an adult son's house on a Mom's night out, I am flabbergasted with how much good sense, humor, and love my sons show their babies and toddlers. I hear them wrangling toddlers in and out of the bath, respectfully asking them to put down the dog...again, and to stop eating the catfood. I actually fell in love with my now son-in-law when I watched him collect my daughter's 6 year old child from our house one evening where she'd fallen asleep. He gently gathered her sleeping body into his arms and protected her so lovingly as he carried her down the stairs. She sighed into his arms. I watched the trust between them. That's the moment I knew he was a keeper. When I gave the toast at their wedding this summer, I told this story.

I am fortunate to live in a community where Dads take as active a roll in parenting as Moms do. It's wonderful and refreshing to see.

Off my soapbox but wanted to speak up for the great Dads and "stand-in Dads" out there. They have my undying gratitude.

I know not all men are like that. My father is great with kids and I trust him whole heartedly with my daughter. My husband had never really been around babies much growing up and me being home with her all the time, while he works odd hours and has to sleep only spending very few hours a day with her during the week and having substantial time on the weekends. Right now she is has temper tantrums and crying fits, she is use to the way mommy does things. I was just so afraid that he wasn't use to it like I am and that she may try his patience I guess. But come to find out it was good for her to have a break from mommy and when mommy is not around she became daddy's little angel. So maybe just maybe she does them things only to test mommy since nobody else has experienced them but me. I get too caught up in the what can happens after reading here so much and reading all the news stories that it gets personal and I feel to protective, although some will object and say I am not to over protective because I left my daughter in the waiting room entrance with the nurse while I ran out for one minute to get her diaper bag. Sometimes I get to overwhelmed by the stories I read here and on the local news and have to take a break from it because it makes me a worry wart. I actually think today is the first time I been on here in 12 days!

 

[Missizzy]

http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060311/news_1n11bleyle.html

I'd been trying to think of the name of the perp in this case for several days and I finally found it. It's Wayne Albert Bleyle, aged 54. Bleyle was a respiratory therapist at a San Diego area Children's Hospital convalescent center and admitted to “countless” molestations of some of the facility's most helpless patients.


"Prosecutor Gunn told the judge that when Bleyle was asked by investigators how many children he molested, Bleyle replied: “How many snowflakes are there out there?”

Bleyle admitted molesting children and trading child *advertiser censored* when investigators contacted him earlier this month....."

"Bleyle was “a prolific trader” in child *advertiser censored*, Gunn said. She said he posted “many of the worst” pornographic pictures of children on his computers to share on the Internet."

"Tens of thousands and possibly over 100,000 images of child *advertiser censored*, stills and video” were found on computers that investigators seized at Bleyle's Santee home, Gunn said.

The pictures and videos included “children in full sexual intercourse with adult men,” she said.


So, maybe there's something about preying on the most vulnerable of victims and trading your best videos. Maybe that's a 'niche" industry we've missed. I've done my share of respite for children who are known as total care children. Bless their hearts but they are barely present. I know their little spirits might be strong and they might be aware of far more than we know. They, however have almost no physical or verbal response. This isn't far off from raping dead or incapacitated humans or animals.

Please note that I am NOT comparing these little angels to this. However, that must be what the rapes are like. What did that horrible man (the anti-abortion activist) say a few weeks ago? If it breathed and was moist, he'd have sex with it. Is this human? How can a man (or a woman) go through years of intense training learning to care for children and researching their developmental stages and responses and go on to commit these crimes?

I'm starting to think that Dr. Bradley was not working alone. You notice that Bleyle was trading with someone. I think Bradley was too. I also think that there's almost a competition as to how vile they can be in their conquests. I remember there being a comment on one of the articles about Bleyle about how fast he was. He could molest and rape while others were nearby. He was fast. So was Bradley. I think it's part of the "game". I'm starting to wonder if the men knew each other.

 

[SusanB]

Good gracious, I just saw the picture of Dr. Bradley, he looks like a friggin' derelict! Wow, he even looks like what I would think a child molester would! (I know, very wrong for me to stereotype anyone on the basis of their appearance).
Anyway, I would bet dollars to donuts he DOES trade *advertiser censored* pics/videos. It is a very prolific practice among child predators/molesters to share their "wares" with others of the same interest.
I am still amazed at how he did this, and did it for so long! Can someone please explain how he took a child from it's parent, went to another "basement" or garage or whatever room, had time to record and take pictures, wrestle with a screaming unwilling child, perform his deeds, and walk back to the parent smiling with a happy child in his arms.:waitasec:
I don't get it.:yow:

 

[Missizzy]

Neither do we, SusanB, but maybe some new details will come out. I think there's going to be a lot more to this story than has been reported so far. When you look at the sheer number of images recovered, there's bound to be a lot of victims.

 

[mysteriew]

I just want to say that my cousin's stepson was a patient of this monster. From birth to 3 years. Once my cousin started taking him to his Dr's appts her hinky meter went off and they pulled him out 5 years ago! Unfortunately, his 3 yr old step brother was a patient there currently. I don't know if anything has happened or not with either and really don't want to know!

My 15 month old has a male pediatrician. When he examines her she is in my arms. She moves around way too much. She screams the whole time until he distances himself. She does that with every man. The nurse takes her to get her weight, height and head circumference. I go into the room with her. She cries during that too. Last week was the 15 month check up. My lil one did a surprise in her diaper which I left the bag in the car thinking it was just a quick visit. Since it was freezing and she had no shoes or jacket on the nurse offered to stay with her. They stayed in the hallway watching me the whole time as I ran to the car which was parked right in front of the window. My daughter screamed "mama" the whole time. The nurse is also the one who gives every single shot. When we leave and go to the receptionist to make the next appt, the receptionist is the one who gives her a toy (like a bracelet) or a sticker. She is never left alone with anyone unless it is a situation like the other day. Of course the pediatrician is the same one I had as a child and most of his staff were also there as I was a child. Doesn't mean he is not capable, but the nurse was in the hall way right by the receptionist office, so even knowing about Dr. Bradley last week when I went to my pediatrician I still had trust in the staff!

Sorry to hear that your cousin's kids had an aquaintance with this alleged doctor. I hope that they will turn out to be one of the lucky ones.

As far as what you did at your docs office, I don't think you did anything wrong. There are always big and small emergencies where you might have to leave your children for short or sometimes even longer times. It is a fact of life that that is going to happen. You have had a long relationship with this doctor and his staff and have learned to trust them from that (not blindly), you weren't leaving them to go off to a bar or an overnight trip, you left the child long enough to run to the car, very different things. But then you hear about this doctor, and suddenly it makes you doubt yourself. You did nothing wrong. The nurse appears to have been willing, and your DD will eventually outgrow her fear of strangers if you allow her to.

 

[not_my_kids]

I think he may have gotten away with it for so long by targetting the parents that didn't know any better or the ones that wouldn't accept it. I can say from experience, there are some parents that feel that if their child is molested or raped, it was a failure on their part as a parent. Some of them simply won't accept it.
I was abducted a month before my 13th birthday, held for a week, raped repeatedly...my mother simply would not accept that it had happened on her watch. She chose to believe, for several months, that I had simply gone off to spend the week with my boyfriend, ( I didn't have one) and was covering it up. Never mind that they arrested the three men that attacked me, never mind that I was in bad enough shape that one of the officers that found me mentioned "compassionate euthanasia", never mind that I had burns and abraded skin down to the bone in some places (I needed cadaver grafts to cover until enough of my own skin was healed well enough to graft.)
Sorry for the graphic, but through all of this, my mother's denial was strong enough that she really did believe that there was another explanation that didn't make it her fault.
Some parents, a minimal amount of bleeding or discomfort might be easy to rationalize and then forget about.

 

[believe09]

i think he may have gotten away with it for so long by targetting the parents that didn't know any better or the ones that wouldn't accept it. I can say from experience, there are some parents that feel that if their child is molested or raped, it was a failure on their part as a parent. Some of them simply won't accept it.
I was abducted a month before my 13th birthday, held for a week, raped repeatedly...my mother simply would not accept that it had happened on her watch. She chose to believe, for several months, that i had simply gone off to spend the week with my boyfriend, ( i didn't have one) and was covering it up. Never mind that they arrested the three men that attacked me, never mind that i was in bad enough shape that one of the officers that found me mentioned "compassionate euthanasia", never mind that i had burns and abraded skin down to the bone in some places (i needed cadaver grafts to cover until enough of my own skin was healed well enough to graft.)
sorry for the graphic, but through all of this, my mother's denial was strong enough that she really did believe that there was another explanation that didn't make it her fault.
Some parents, a minimal amount of bleeding or discomfort might be easy to rationalize and then forget about.

((((nmk))))))

 

[believe09]

Oh, I think he set expectations as well...."she squirmed and I scratched her with a finger nail just in case you see a little blood..."

 

[Cubby]

((((nmk))))))

(((((((hugs))))))) from me too. Thank you for having the courage to share this.

 

[not_my_kids]

I'm really not trying to hijack, but it might explain some of the kids were never identified as victims sooner and how the parents didn't see anything, or acknowledge that they saw it.
I don't think that every parent involved had this reaction, but I'm sure there were a few that had suspicions and simply buried them.

I have no problem sharing my history. I speak at abuse seminars and am one of the foremost lay experts on sexual sadists. I survived one. For those that know me, it explains the hyper-vigilance I show with my own kids.

 

[kikid]

People look at me like I'm crazy because I won't allow mine to be alone in a room with a doctor, nurse or dentist! Had a pediatric dentist get all pissy with me because I flat out refused to allow my son to go back with him alone. I left and never went back...I found one that didn't mind

When my then 5 year old daughter was crying at the Dentist visit, the dentist got pissy and told her that if she kept crying he'd make me leave! oh no he didn't! I reassured her right then I would not leave her, and told him and his assistant she'd not be back to their office again.

 

[impatientredhead]

I think there will be many victims that are never identified (unless they are on video) because of the sheer number of nonverbal patients or toddlers he chose as victims. The ones that can't tell at all, well we can only hope they are young enough to not be mentally scarred. Many toddlers won't have the vocabulary to describe it and as Brini points out the doctor has some plausible deniability tied to exams and shaping expectations. Kids flipped out before or after a doctor appt is not unheard of. He had good cover.

Of course looking from the outside with the "positive reviews" of him describing him as odd, socially uncomfortable with adults, and eccentric, combined with his derelict appearance and the house of horrors house he was practicing out of it is easy to say something was clearly wrong, but that is with biased eyes.

I would be willing to bet if you scrub his records he has a higher ratio of one time visits than your average doctor. A lot of parents probably did sense he was odd and went on gut instinct to go elsewhere. Not that the other parents should have, not blaming them at all. Just saying some people trust that instinctual voice more than others and some are more in tune with it than others.