On pretty much every front, really. And that is the most family friendly title I could come up with.
If you haven’t seen the NJ article this AM recounting some of the history of the despicable Dr. Bradley, then do yourself a favor. People with blood pressure issues should be forewarned. But this is a just a horror show on pretty much every front:
- Parents have been complaining about this doctor for years — one parent cited noted that he daughter was abused in 1999
- Doctors and others who worked with Bradley apparently knew he was a pedophile — or at least that there was something quite out of the ordinary — and it doesn’t look like they did much to report him. (Which might be wrong, but I’m guessing from this article)
- Police tried charging him in 2005, and AG Brady decided that they could not win such a case (!)
- The AGs office tried getting a search warrant in 2008 for Bradley’s office which was turned down
There’s more at Chris Barrish’s great article — but the point here is that pretty much every part of the system that is supposed to protect kids from the Bradley’s of the world seemed to completely fail here. COMPLETELY. I can’t fathom how so many people could know about a pedophile — and one with the kind of access to kids that Bradley had — and not be able to do something about this. I can’t fathom how so many people could know about this and just live with themselves everyday. It is simply unconscionable and, frankly, I wonder how much of the Delaware Way contributed to this sorry state of affairs. But it seems clear to me that plenty of people conspired to fail these children and their parents.
AG Biden and his office don’t appear to have done much to get in front of this, either, and protecting kids was supposed to be his issue. He’ll probably do some handwaving at not damaging the case or tainting a jury pool or something, but THIS is what a systemic system failure looks like and someone needs to start talking about how this happened and how this gets fixed. No one should be expected to settle for handwaving or excuses here. And chemical castrating of pedophiles means jack when in fact the entire system that should be in place to get these people into courts in the first place is utterly dysfunctional.