Earl Bradley was sexually attracted to children and, therefore, manifested his attraction by . JESSICA PROCTOR: He was proud to see me come home and not go back, that I was actually making a difference in my life and going somewhere. Bradleys letter reflects the same self-assuredness about constitutional law that he once exhibited about pediatric medicine. Ive been trying to get here for a long time. VAUGHN GRESHAM: No, just your attitude, like, you know, its nothing for you to. But, as before, nothing came of them. And I cant see you because youre a victim. NURSING INSTRUCTOR: OK, guys, its the last night. Bradley was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia to a mother who was a raging alcoholic and a father who stockpiled photographs of naked girls, according to an earlier News Journal. So its hard. MIKE LAWLOR: It is not unusual for parolees to come back once or twice once theyre out, right? Ive been waiting for this day for the past 21 months. Each time, in ways that echo through hundreds of other cases the newspaper examined, Bradley avoided punishment. NARRATOR: The day after Vaughn was sent back to jail, Officer Brayfield arrives to serve him his papers. They copy it. MARK PAWLICH: I got, you know, 65 cases and one flaming [expletive] Its just aggravating. Early on Dec. 16, 2009, detectives from the Delaware State Police arrived at Bradleys faded white clapboard house, just a block from Beebe hospital. He opened his own practice in a small complex just a few blocks away, at Academy and Red Lion Roads in Morrell Park. LISA BRAYFIELD: Absolutely. MARGARET, Errolls Mother: [waiting at prison gate] Open! Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Its actually pretty common that the offenders will like to show off their drinking or their drug use, and they post these things to social media. KATHERINE: To just be able to put your arms around somebody is a huge thing. MARK PAWLICH: So but youve used more than five total bags, though, in the eight days, correct? Parents talked about feeling uneasy over how Bradley touched their daughters. Marvel has repeatedly refused News Journal requests for interviews. The wood is weathered fromthe palms of previous inhabitants, including Bradley and his four children. The home sits across the street from the Lewes firehouse, wherePat, a volunteer firefighter,can hop on the first truck after the bell. In private, he continued to maintain he didnt do the things he was accused of, said Jim Barnes, Bradleys brother-in-law. Ive been here before, so its easier said than done. NARRATOR: He doesnt tell Officer Pawlich and misses his next appointment, another violation of parole. Lawyers and police detectives, who were forced to watch13 hours of Bradley's homemade video tapes,still hear the blood-curdling screams of children being molested, sodomized and raped. MARK PAWLICH: Burglary? I dont understand it. PAROLE OFFICER: These are your conditions, which youve signed a few times already. PAROLE OFFICERS: [to Vaughn Gresham, putting on handcuffs] Widen your stance. Editors note: Erroll Brantleys first name was misspelled in an earlier version of this post. Its a hard balance. What the hell are you doing, you bastard? his patients mother had screamed when she found Bradley with his hand in her daughters diaper. "I will always have a hatred for him," says Hitchens, a willowy 23-year-oldwho used to cinch her belt so tight that it threatened tocut off her circulation. The mothers accusation that he touched a 21-month-old inside her diaper still was unresolved in Philadelphia. NARRATOR: The state is trying to use parole as part of an effort to reduce its prison population. A judge sent him to prison for life, with no chance for parole. ERROLL BRANTLEY: Im proud to be graduating the prison drug program today because I did it with all you gentlemen. A serious artist who does not take herself too seriously, she makes it sound pretty simple: I was in the car behind them, she says, instructing her camerawoman, Nisa East, who was hunched in the front passenger seat of Robert and Foxs car. VAUGHN GRESHAM: send people to jail or anything, like, [expletive] them, you know? RAEANN: Daddy drew me this recently. So $53,277, $25,156 and $25,935 for a total of over $100,000. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. The board has since educated the community about its function and improved coordination withlaw enforcement, he said. This time I got out was the first time that I was on parole. Now the amount of time youre sent back to prison for is a relatively short period of time while we sort of reboot them and get them back out the door again. Lets go pull a urine. Jessica Proctor continues to work full-time as a home healthcare aid and is in the process of petitioning the court for full custody of her son, Donte. They sufferin a state ofperpetual high alert, likehunted animals. The agreement revoked Bradleys medical license, but said almost nothing about his offenses. [40], On June 23, 2011, Bradley was convicted on all 24 counts on a consolidated indictment (which originally contained 529 counts): 14 counts of rape, seven counts of assault, and three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Bradley offered no defense when he went on trial in 2011. Three doctors, however, have had their licenses revoked for inappropriate sexual conduct with adult women, according to state records. Spillan later testified in court about watching the rapes of children in diapers, many of them screaming and trying to get away. I wish I could have shown you guys how amazing my life is, but its going to take a little while longer. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. They reclaim the intimacy that incarceration has denied. Police said the doctor used video cameras to record some of the brutal attacks in exam rooms. "During that period, everyone knew how important it was to keep going.". She needs to make a decision right now whether this was just a one-time deal that happened in her life and shes going to move on from this, or whether shes going to be a returning customer, someone who keeps coming in and out of the system. All Rights reserved. One room became a movie theater and another an ersatz planetarium. The mother reeled as she grasped what this meant: The doctor had put his tongue in her daughters mouth, had violated her in a profound way. I ought to punch you in the face, he said. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. That doesnt even cause any harm to anybody. Like I said, I have the biggest room in the entire house, which is nice. How well does your state protect patients? Jessica was young, got in trouble, went to jail for a substantial amount of time, came back out. 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I understood right after the situation happened. And so basically, his violations are the dirty urine, not reporting to me that hes no longer living at his residence. Director Garret Bradley combines video diaries that Fox recorded for her husband in the 1990s with intimate glimpses of her and the family's life now. HALFWAY HOUSE STAFFER: Gresham! If the atmosphere in those rooms is reflective of the reform vision of the top, then change in Connecticut will happen. Still, nurses, other doctors and patients parents soon noticed that something about Bradley seemed off. NARRATOR: Jessica Proctor went to prison for slashing another girls face with a razor blade. Maybe too much attention. But if it got a little rough, we had bats, you know? I didnt think that was going to be a problem. In Lewes,Bradley's demolished BayBees Pediatrics site is stillon the market, and his clapboard home has been gutted. Before he finally went to jail in 2009, he victimized 1,200 children, maybe more. But behind his eccentric nature,. MARK PAWLICH: All right, following you out. All right, youve got to go out of the building. Some scenes lasted several minutes, others only a few seconds. Dont tell me how I think or how I feel. She's still fuzzy on whether she was drugged, raped or videotaped by one of the most notorious pedophiles in U.S. history, anarchetypal lonerwho is serving 14 life sentences in a single-bunk cell. NARRATOR: Rob also needs approval from the halfway house to go anywhere other than his job. When an expectant mother met with him in 2002, he readily calmed her anxieties about giving birth for the first time. No, I did it on Friday. Theyre supposed to be the people who catch parolees in any rule violation and then reporting it out. The mother began trembling an involuntary, uncontrollable reaction that, more than 11 years later, recurs when she talks about Bradley. Until then, other doctors, hospital executives and many parents had viewed Bradley more as an eccentric than a predator, although one who may have been careless with little girls, as a colleague put it. I am the one that holds the power to send her back. I was for drugs. Advertisement. NARRATOR: Connecticut is now trying to give parolees like Vaughn more chances after relatively minor violations. I read the post and was familiar with both Kate, Sally, Ben and company. JESSICA PROCTOR: My whole incarceration, hes been a second honors student. The DeBiasses purchased Bradley's Savannah Road home last year for $300,000, less than half its market value, from the church whose parking lot abuts the property. Youre also going on GPS today. LISA BRAYFIELD: OK, do you want to elaborate? Whats your name, just so I. I was 18 years old. ERROLL BRANTLEY: Shes my support network, Officer Pawlich. Just more recently, decided that wed like to have a family. View film. Vaughn had been released to a halfway house after another stint in jail. So theyll go back to their behaviors, you know, which is, like, drinking or drug use. The validation was overwhelming. "Why did you do that to my life?". VAUGHN GRESHAM: No concerns. ERROLL BRANTLEY: No, Im not. Beyond the coin-operated Buzz Lightyear ride that warned "Do not leave child unattended," Bradley grabbed the tiny hands of his patients, some of them still in diapers, plying them with promises of popsicles and Barbie dolls. Citing Bradley's "overall impact" on inmates and correctional officers, the state moved the 63-year-old from James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna to a state prison in southern Connecticut last year. When an offender is released, they can have no contact with previous crime victims or co-defendants. You know, years ago, my God, if you had a dirty urine, youd go back to jail. LISA BRAYFIELD: I dont know. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution welcomes its readers to share their thoughts about this series, Doctors & Sex Abuse. They said that she was a victim, and they took her off my visiting list after, like, 17 months. They did nothing. Editor's note: Erroll Brantley's first name was misspelled in an earlier version of this post.. He served two terms of two years each. She sent the society a letter saying her brother had a mental illness he wasnt managing well, was spending far beyond his means, and had physically abused his son, then a teenager. And I got a job as soon as they told me that. LEWES, DEL. Thatsame system shielded Bradley from at least eight accusations of sexual misconduct from 1994 to 2009. Even friends questioned whether Bradley really did anything wrong. A little over a year after Erroll and Katherine were given permission to be together, Erroll started using heroin again. Them [expletive] been deleted. I havent met her yet, but Ive read her case. Criminal charges are rare; convictions, rarer still. Donte! You just could never say, Wow, look at this case, this guys got no hope phew, put him in your no hope pile. KATHERINE MONTOYA: The business of living is very hard. Just as she started looking for them, she saw Bradley leading her daughter back down the hall. ERROLL BRANTLEY: [on the phone] He put me on the bracelet, and hes putting me in a halfway house. He threatened to sue the hospital, claiming his enemies had conspired to force him off the staff by attacking his reputation. Make your phone calls, [expletive]. They docked [sp?] The toll is a quarter-billion dollars and climbing. 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[26] Bradley promptly closed his fledgling private practice and relocated with his children to Lewes, where he took a job with Beebe Medical Center. But he found himself up against a system meant not to harm a doctor.. KELLY: What a birthday present thats going to be, huh? The girl cried for her mother. (Feb. 25)\rThe Associated Press.\r\rFind out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork \rTwitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive \rFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives \rInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/\r\r\rYou can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5606ff1fdcf0c854127309c555a0e8e3 OK? His conviction was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court on September 6, 2012. Landmark Criminal Justice Bill Clears Congress, Heads to Trumps Desk. Yeah. MARK PAWLICH: Dont start this [expletive] again with me, all right? Sorry, Jessica. It blew my mind, the mother said in an interview. try to keep accused physicians in practice. He called it BayBees Pediatrics. Go have a seat. He graduated from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1983 and completed his pediatrics residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1986. Then, a flash of perverse genius. NARRATOR: Officer Brayfield has to approve his request. KELLY: Hes more handsome with the teardrops off of his face. VAUGHN GRESHAM: All right, have a good one. RAEANN: I love you and I missed you, too. A preliminary hearing on the Bradley case is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Court of Common Pleas in Georgetown. A famous Delaware pediatrician, Dr. Earl Bradley, was convicted in 2011 of raping or abusing 86 patients over 11 years. His family foundation enshrinedhislegacy of protecting victims of child abuse. She remembers the grinning Disney characters with their frozen arms, the stick-on constellation beaming from the ceiling as he dimmed the lights. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. When the girl screamed, Bradley told her mother he was just checking to see whether the hymen was intact. James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources. Without a plausible story, Bradley could be in serious trouble. Hes not happy. And the apartment was already ready. You going to play? MARK PAWLICH: And put it right out there in front of everybody, like, I get to get supervised differently. Well, you dont get to get supervised differently. And one little you know, I drink. So you know, its I do a lot of thinking after hours whether the decisions that Im making are correct or not. LISA BRAYFIELD: OK. Often, he carried children to his basement or to another building on the property while parents checked out at the front desk. What they did was unconscionable., Bruce Hudson, lawyer for patients in a class-action lawsuit over Bradleys abuse. At that time, they thought it was just someone trying to extort money from him, Dr. James Marvel, a two-time president of the Medical Society of Delaware and one of the doctors who helped bring Bradley to Lewes, later told the police. Documentary A documentary about Ben Bradlee, the iconic editor of The Washington Post. You know, so most of it goes into savings. MARK PAWLICH: Its extremely serious. And now hes messing up. Theres no staying overnight. I wonder what he thought of this documentary. They have to start over again. My ladies oftentimes are the primary caretakers of their children. Reported cases of doctors sexually assaulting children are unusual; vulnerable victims are not. ERROLL BRANTLEY: No. In 2017, to see if the system had changed, we again reviewed public disciplinary actions by medical regulators in all 50 states. Bradley made the first recordings in December 1998; the last, in December 2009, three days before his arrest. But then, Detective James Spillan saw Bradley removing the diaper of a very young child. And my best chances of getting past this stage is keeping on the right path. Investigators sometimes doubted his accusers. Many people just broke down, Lewis said in an interview. That comes from somewhere.. Hey. Why its so difficult to learn about your doctor's tarnished record. Again and again, the newspaper found, a profession that prides itself on self-policing empowers even its most dangerous practitioners. At the same time, thenumber of reported child abuse incidents statewide continues to grow, nearly doubling to almost21,000 over the last six years. 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