Dr. Earl Bradley, 56, is being held in the Vaughn Correctional Center on a $2.9 million cash bond after he was charged with 33 felony counts, including rape and sexual exploitation of a child . When you love somebody and you want to make a future with them, you kind of feel like all that is on hold. Not a bundle. Others defended Bradley. How Do Predatory Physicians Get Away With Their Crimes for Years or Decades? Ten years? Thats a super job. MIKE LAWLOR: In the past, parole officers felt that their main responsibility was to keep on top of the offender, and if and when they violate the rules of parole or commit new crimes, return them to prison. 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. E. B. Lewis (illustrator) Earl Bradley Lewis (born December 16, 1956) is an American artist and illustrator. She was just waiting on me to get out. A follow-up hearing was scheduled for May 17.[37]. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. His parole is not scheduled to end until May 2022. I grew up seeing people getting robbed, stealing, selling drugs, shootings, stabbings, fights. I mean, theyre not going back the first time. I mean, you know, a lot goes into determining the levels of supervision. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. MARK PAWLICH: I got guys that cant see their kids because the kids live with their crime victim. ROB SULLIVAN: Today Im free. LISA BRAYFIELD: OK, Im going to look through this, Ill give it to you in a little while. Now the police were coming. They did nothing. [4] The indictment included allegations that Bradley had forced children as young as three months old to engage in intercourse and oral sex. These agreements bring investigations to a halt, reducing the likelihood that other victims might be identified and additional sanctions imposed. KATHERINE MONTOYA: OK, with your son is a whole different animal. MARK PAWLICH: Burglary? They getentangled inabusive relationships or hooked on drugs andalcohol. So you are ready to go get a job. ROB SULLIVAN: Like, right now, even going in this store, I can end up back to jail, just for going into a store to get something. And if its not, it will be very hard to make change stick. Why Governor Dannel Malloy Wants Connecticut to be a "Second Chance Society", From the Archives: How the World's Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Unfolded, Russias Invasion of Ukraine, One Year Later, War Crimes Watch Ukraine: More Than 650 Documented Events, From the Archives: How the U.N. & World Failed Darfur Amid "the 21st Century's First Genocide". So we picked him., He made the parents think he cared so much about their kids well-being., Mother who asked not to be identified to protect the privacy of her daughter. NARRATOR: Errolls parole officer is Mark Pawlich. If I got caught in the building, thats a stipulation, its a violation of parole. She sponsored me and helped me to get out of Cheney House. VAUGHN GRESHAM: All right, have a good one. Judge Carpenter said that Bradley "betrayed his patients' trust and disgraced the medical profession", and that "you will never be in a position to harm a child again". NARRATOR: The challenge is how to keep them from returning to prison. Theyre making it a lot harder for the other offenders. You know, I dont know. Editors note: Erroll Brantleys first name was misspelled in an earlier version of this post. If anything, making aesthetically rich nonfiction that surpasses infotainment has motivated her to think more deeply: about images, about what nonfiction even means (or doesnt). [30] Soon after, relying on more than 13 hours of videotaped rapes and molestations discovered by police in Bradley's home and office, additional warrants were issued. In November 2012, a Delaware judge approved a $123 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Beebe hospital, the state medical society and several doctors, some of whom allegedly referred patients to Bradley even after hearing jokes and rumors that cast him as a pedophile. And yet, despite its horrific details, Bradleys case is hardly the anomaly it seems. So he left part of the story out. Others shoot up drugs to forget. So youve been using consistently again? The affidavit of probable cause supported a reasonable inference that patient files, whether documentary or photographic, could be found in the outbuilding, along with other evidence of patient . Number 24, I cant believe how big he is Oh, come on! Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift . I was young. "[15] Bradley had access to an estimated 7,000 pediatric patients. I always get nervous every time I go through this door, man. I hold in my hand a lab report with your name on it. My hands are tied. There, he brazenly violated them, muzzling their shrieks and sedating them with nitrous oxide. NARRATOR: Though he could send Erroll to jail, he decides instead to enroll him in a drug counseling program. If I was to lock up every one thats run into Jessicas situation, I wouldnt have a caseload. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud Earlier this year, the Children's Advocacy Center, which collects evidence in criminal child abuse cases, sustained a nearly $100,000 state budget cut to its three locations. Youre due back in the house at a certain time every single night. Yet inadequatefunding has hampered the Biden Foundation's mission to educate at least 5 percent of the First State'spopulation in steps they can take to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the crime, according to foundation CEOPatricia Dailey Lewis. Vigilance is key to preventing child sex abuse, experts agree. MIKE LAWLOR, Undersecretary for Criminal Justice: If youre on parole, youre still sort of in the Department of Correction. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. Just as she started looking for them, she saw Bradley leading her daughter back down the hall. 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 didnt think that was going to be a problem. You are going to have limited community access for two weeks, and youll have to complete 10 hours of extra duty in the house. Barnes wife, Lynda, died last February. "I really just wanted to sleep my life away," admits Aubrey Heary, who blew herhalf-million-dollar Bradley settlement check on heroin, luxury cars and extravagant gifts for friends and family. As many as 1 out of 4 girls and 1 out of 6 boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18, according to research by child advocacy organizations. And Ive been in and out of jail 11 times. There, intimate encounters not only are unavoidable, they are sometimes necessary. The esteem and credibility so readily granted to physicians were evident in the reaction a Delaware mother got when she told a friend Bradley had molested her daughter. They did nothing. RAEANN: But thats what makes Daddy Daddy. You know when you do wrong, youve got to pay up, right? NARRATOR: For Vaughn, those conditions will be enforced by his parole officer, Lisa Brayfield. MARGARET: Oh, my God, its been so long since I had a hug! Erroll Brantley is no longer incarcerated, and will be under the supervision of parole until May 2019. View film. And with Brantley, hes probably been through rehab, you know, I dont know how many times. I dont have a no hope pile. That action had no effect on a handful of local doctors, who were implicated in the Bradley case for not reporting his behavior. If such an extreme predator could get away with assaulting patients for years without consequence, how likely are more typical offenders to draw attention of regulators? 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. JESSICA PROCTOR: My whole incarceration, hes been a second honors student. No matter what you say or do, theyre not going to get their act together and theyre not going to stop committing crimes. I wish I could have shown you guys how amazing my life is, but its going to take a little while longer. I didnt have parole to look after me anymore. At the tail end of Time the feature-length documentary that, since its heralded Sundance debut last year, has deservedly made its director, Garrett . But problems persist. Hes been a parole officer for 18 years. Just more recently, decided that wed like to have a family. MARK PAWLICH: Released from Carl Robinson, correct? JESSICA PROCTOR: No, I know. Allstill holdactive medical licenses with no disciplinary actions, according to state records. He was perpetually disheveled, his beard untrimmed and his hair shaggy and matted. ROB SULLIVAN: If I work 40 hours, Im allowed to have $40. When an offender is released, they can have no contact with previous crime victims or co-defendants. VAUGHN GRESHAM: And how longs that going to take? Thats one of her biggest goals in her life, to get her son back into her life, to be a mother to her son. Documenting evidence of potential war crimes in Ukraine. What Im doing right now is managing somebody with about four or five misconducts right now that would land them in jail, and then to put the icing on the cake, walk their victim into my office lobby, all right, ERROLL BRANTLEY: I really didnt know it was. [crosstalk], MARK PAWLICH: Im going to warn you one more time. What did you do today? Cheyney House was my first time in a halfway house ever. Hes working full-time as a cook at an Italian restaurant, where his wages are docked to pay off the more than $100,000 he still owes in child support. Unfortunately, Vaughn is not a unique case to me supervising offenders in halfway houses, you know, remanding him, bring he comes back out a halfway house, remand again, he comes back out to a halfway house. Shes been on the job for a year, and her first assignment is supervising over a hundred men at two halfway houses in Hartford. Five years after the state's highest court affirmed hisconviction, hundreds of Bradley'svictims an entire generation of pediatric patients along the Delaware seashore are struggling to heal brutalized bodies and minds. So the best thing for me to do right now is to do CNA. ROB SULLIVAN: Its, like, you have to be secretive. MARK PAWLICH: So what was your crime over there? MARK PAWLICH: Its hard. And there was no way in hell I was going to say, No, Im not a journalist. Invariably, he dressed in surgical scrubs, often soiled with blood and other fluids. At age 87, Bradley's uncle was convicted of lewd behavior and exposing himself to young girls in central Pennsylvania. But she then created a the situation in the departments eyes that she was a crime victim because he took her TV set. He thinks its all, like, a joke and he gets to control and manipulate what he does and how he does it. Erroll Brantley is no longer incarcerated, and will be under the supervision of parole until May 2019. Then, a flash of perverse genius. NARRATOR: Vaughn Gresham is being released to his fifth halfway house after seven months in jail. Publicly, hehas expressed no remorse for his crimes. Prof. FIONA DOHERTY: The conditions that are put on people who are coming out of prison to avoid going back to prison are very broad. 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. NARRATOR: The day after Vaughn was sent back to jail, Officer Brayfield arrives to serve him his papers. Time is an Academy Award-nominated 2020 American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. No, not yet. NARRATOR: Hes been charged with violating the conditions of his release, and now Connecticut must decide whether to keep Erroll behind bars or give him another chance at life on parole. [32] His attorney, Eugene Maurer, denied that Bradley was suicidal but complained that prison officials had deprived him of his prescription glasses. VAUGHN GRESHAM: You know, Im fairly easygoing. Its a mess. I am headed to my first day of work at Ruby Tuesdays as a manager-slash-kitchen- Im not even sure. Archive: Coverage of the Earl Bradley case. KANEISHA: I think for a long time, he thought that I was his bio mom, until my sister got pregnant. Thats all I need. You get a dollar per hour of what you work to hold on you. Speaking by Zoom from the sunny Los Angeles apartment thats become her home away from home for much of the pandemic, Bradley explains just how she got Fox and Robert to allow her so far into the tragedy, to say nothing of the intimacy, of their lives. Some parents just didnt want to know, Lewis said. Its going to be five years. Through interviews, police reports, court files and other public records, the AJC documented eight instances in which Bradley was the subject of accusations between 1994 and 2008. Even though she reported Bradley to the state medical society in 2004, she loved and stood by her brother, Jim Barnes said. Three days a week, all right? But I was happy. She gets used to seeing you know, talking to him and then not. She only wanted 100 bucks a week, but she would do me a favor. Vaughn had been released to a halfway house after another stint in jail. How special. NARRATOR: Rob has now finished his treatment program. 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. [27] When police in Milford, Delaware sought a warrant to arrest him for inappropriately touching a child patient, the Attorney General's office concluded at the time that there was insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. So hes going to get a rude awakening in about five minutes. NARRATOR: Days earlier, Vaughn was late coming back from a job-training program. Unlike the perpetrator, their ending hasn't been written yet. Before he finally went to jail in 2009, he victimized 1,200 children, maybe more. JESSICA PROCTOR: [at football game] Six to eighteen! They sure as hell have never walked them up in my lobby. I dont want you to quit school, but if you find the school to be too stressful for you, if you need to take a break from school to kind of regroup, do that. MARK PAWLICH: All right. And I got 100 percent. Its not up to me. Prof. FIONA DOHERTY, Yale Law School: The default mode in the criminal justice system, at least in the United States, is one of control and punishment. Concentrate on the now. Home sweet home. So you know, its I do a lot of thinking after hours whether the decisions that Im making are correct or not. What the hells wrong with me?. KELLY, Raeanns Mother: He even put his teardrops [tattoos] in there [laughs], which hes going to get taken off. I dont know if its apropos, if its bittersweet, if its going to help to tell the story. The videos also show children in diapers screaming as they attempted to escape from Bradley before he raped them in an outbuilding on the property. Malcolm X: Directed by Arnold Perl. Phones going straight to voicemail. However, Bradley then waived his right to a jury trial, opting instead for a bench trial. Reported cases of doctors sexually assaulting children are unusual; vulnerable victims are not. So Brantley, why are we seeing each other today? Benjamin C. Bradlee: It's wonderfully ironical that a man who so disliked and never understood the press did so much to further the reputation of the press and particularly the "Washington Post". Until the AJC in 2016 published its national investigation of doctor sex abuse cases, no one had accurate data about the extent of the problem or whether doctors were being held accountable. Well, when I went to my sons game, I was excited. MARK PAWLICH: And is long-term planning being with your mom at that address? ROB SULLIVAN: Its hard, especially on a young kid, a young girl thats you know, going into her teenage life, you know? We think there were more that just didnt come forward., They had to have known. In 1994, a mother discovered Bradley with his hand down the front of her 21-month-old's diaper in a darkened toy room. [laughs]. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time RAEANN: It means Daddys going to be home sooner than we expected. Rather, it epitomizes the medical culture that enables and excuses sexual misconduct by physicians across the nation, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. Thats not even real life. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. Dozensalready have, trying to appearupbeatabout college or job prospects as they sign papers, lawyers involved in the case say. I wish I could have been the success story. The settlement provided victims with as little as $1,000 and as much as $400,000, depending on the severity of their abuse. And I feel bad because she went in so young and she was denied the opportunity to raise her son. I was home. They have sex. Go back to work, come back here. which is initially the reason really why I took the phone. He was indicted in 2010 on 471 charges of molesting, raping, and exploiting 103 child patients (102 girls and 1 boy). Some scenes lasted several minutes, others only a few seconds. And people dont have a lot of skills to be able to maintain a situation like that. So what did you do when you left school? Some of them had to have known there was a reasonable suspicion of child abuse, Lewis said. So any other issues, questions, concerns? Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Delawares courts ruled with deception, dishonesty, sophistry and without integrity.. [18] He continued to work at Jefferson until a sudden move to Lewes, Delaware on the Delmarva Peninsula in 1995. Detectives with the Delaware State Police escort Dr. Earl B. Bradley after his arrest in December 2009. She wants a pair of sneakers for basketball, and I cant buy them. When he finished the exam, Bradley asked, Can I get them a lollipop?. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. Daily Headlines Breaking News Delaware Medicare Advantage case. Any questions for me? MARK PAWLICH: I dont care about that thing right now. Call me later, OK? KATHERINE MONTOYA: This could be a small [expletive] or it could be your descent into madness. But then if theyre not doing good, if I remove them from the situation, whos going to be taking care of those kids? RAEANN: I love you and I missed you, too. - An ex-pediatrician accused of raping and sexually assaulting scores of his young patients over a decade is awaiting a judge's decision after a. ERROLL BRANTLEY: I didnt know it was that serious. His parole was revoked. I actually went out and bought a couple bundles of dope, thinking Id thinking Id die. So all my birthdays are important, so hell actually be here for my 11th. 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