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Is Dr. Earl B. Bradley, The New Name Of Evil, Too Gruesome For Tabloids?

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bradleyNews is breaking today about a Delaware pediatrician who is alleged to have sexually abused well over 100 potential victims. Last week, he was charged with molesting or raping at least seven patients, including some infants. But video tapes and computer records indicate that the numbers are much greater in number. Dr. Earl B. Bradley is reported to be on suicide watch, but is this story too gruesome and horrific for even the tabloids and television programs to report? Probably not.

The NY Times reports:

For more than a decade, Dr. Earl B. Bradley was a trusted fixture of the small coastal town of Lewes, Del., seeing thousands of children at a private practice he called BayBees Pediatrics.

On Wednesday, an official from the state attorney general’s office said that Dr. Bradley might have raped or molested as many as 100 children over the last 11 years, and the police scrambled to identify victims seen on videos that they say the doctor made of the assaults. They also began contacting law enforcement agencies in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where they believe the doctor may have also seen patients.

Last week, Dr. Bradley, 56, was charged with molesting or raping at least seven patients, including some infants. A court hearing in the case was canceled Wednesday because Dr. Bradley had been placed on suicide watch.

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  • LNSmithee

    Colby Hall asked:


    Dr. Earl B. Bradley is reported to be on suicide watch, but is this story too gruesome and horrific for even the tabloids and television programs to report?

    Well, let’s check.

    Is he a minority? No.

    Is he an illegal immigrant? No.

    Is he gay? No.

    Yeah, they’ll cover it.

  • Zakk

    Why do we put these people on suicide watch. Why not let them kill themselves?

    Perry Farrell: “Some people should die, that’s just unconscious knowledge.”

  • LNSmithee

    I thought there was a bright side to Maj. Hasan surviving his near-mortal wound in his terrorist attack at Fort Hood: He is paralyzed and will have to face in court the woman who shot him down, and then will be executed.

    That was before someone calling a talk show pointed something out: the paralyzed Hasan is in a military hospital. That means a medical staffer who is a member of our armed forces is duty bound to wipe after his mess, if you know what I mean.

  • pyrope

    Terrorists and child molesters can NOT be rehabilitated–this is the opinion of innumerable reputable and pragmatic psychiatrists. It is, therefore, fitting to dispatch both upon conviction.

    Assuming Dr. Bradley is found guilty of the charges placed against him, I truly pity the children who suffered the psychological scars inflicted by their molestation.

    It is unfortunate there exists no adequate quid pro quo for these sub-humans. Perhaps the best we of rational mind can hope for is that they live a thousand years, fully cognizant of the hatred polite society holds for them. To treat them with the same disregard as they have their victims seems only to lower our humanity.

    (There is no contradiction in my remarks whereas dispatching them and hoping they live a thousand years is considered; if the punishment meted out by the courts is for their execution, then this is the rendering of justice that we must accept.)

  • Relic

    So we should off the Catholic church then.

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