Earl Brian Bradley (born May 10, 1953) is a former
pediatrician from
Lewes, Delaware
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and convicted
serial child rapist. He was indicted in 2010 on 471 charges of molesting,
raping
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, and exploiting 103 child patients (102 girls and 1 boy). Some of the victims were as young as three months old.
He was charged in April 2010 with an additional 58 offenses in relation to the abuse of 24 additional victims. He has been described by a number of reputable news outlets and commentators as "the worst
pedophile
Pedophilia ( alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty a ...
in American history." Dr. Eli Newberger, a professor at
Harvard Medical School
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and a pediatrician who has studied child abuse cases for almost 40 years, said Bradley's was "the worst pediatrician abuse case I've ever heard of." Bradley had access to an estimated 7,000 pediatric patients. According to a personal injury law firm in
Baltimore
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, one of many representing class action plaintiffs, 1,400 families in the class action alleged abuse. Bradley was ultimately found guilty on all consolidated charges brought and was sentenced to 14