By now, we are all aware of the despicable crimes alleged of Dr. Earl Bradley, a Sussex County pediatrician. Charlie Copeland has now decided that it is all Beau Biden’s fault. Much like Rudy Giuliani, Charles Lamont du Pont Copeland has a faulty memory, or is an outright liar. Or perhaps Copeland, despite all his family money, can’t read. But let’s take a look again at the decade long systemic failures to allowed Bradley to allude the system for so long as detailed in the Cris Barrish article from early this week, which Charlie must have read.
The [probable cause affidavit that led to Bradley’s arrest last week] includes accounts from state police as well as Milford police. It was Milford police who revealed Tuesday they had tried to charge Bradley in the spring of 2005 with offensive touching after a 3-year-old girl complained that he kissed her too much.
No arrest was made, Milford police said, because then-Attorney General M. Jane Brady’s office decided they could not win the case.
Interesting. So if Beau Biden is incompetent, as Charlie Copeland charges, why hasn’t Charlie made the same charge against the now Honorable M. Jane Brady of the Superior Court, who was Attorney General at the time? It was her office, her prosecutors, that decided in 2005 (a full two years before Beau Biden became Attorney General) that there was not enough evidence apparently to win the case. Now, at this point, we do not know what led to that decision by the former REPUBLICAN Attorney General to not pursue the case. In hindsight, perhaps it was she that was incompetent. Or perhaps it was the Milford police?
The police affidavit released Wednesday made clear that, although Bradley was not arrested until last month, police had spoken at length to several alleged victims and their parents over the last several years.
Why were the police gun shy here? Were they burned by the prior rejection by Attorney General Brady? Were they incompetent? It seems that with each complaint there was simply not enough evidence to make an arrest or a case beyond a reasonable doubt. Doesn’t that point to the incompetence of the police investigation? But you can’t call the police incompetent, for that is like blaming America or something. I wonder if the FOP has donated to Charlie before. That would explain Charlie’s silence.
Police and prosecutors have said that before Bradley was arrested, they vigorously pursued complaints against him. Attorney General Beau Biden [said] in a written statement […] that in hopes of arresting Bradley more than a year ago, investigators sought a search warrant for Bradley’s office in December 2008. [However,] a judge denied the request, and “determined there was not sufficient probable cause to move forward.”
Was this so far unnamed Judge incompetent? Charlie is probably silent as to that because he doesn’t know if the Judge is a personal friend, or a Republican. If we find out the Judge is a Democrat, the charges of incompetence will no doubt fly from Charlie’s fork shaped tongue. And if we find out the Judge is a Republican or a personal friend, there will be crickets.
Though it is now evident that several doctors, police officers and prosecutors knew about Bradley’s alleged crimes for a period of years, the Delaware Board of Medical Practice has said it never received a complaint about the pediatrician who has been practicing in Delaware since 1994 after working for about a decade in Philadelphia.
Is the Delaware Board of Medical Practice incompetent? Were all the doctors and nurses who worked with him throughout the last 15 years? It would seem that the Sussex County medical community and nearly the entire staff of Beebe Medical Center knew that Bradley was a pedophile, and yet not a single complaint was made to the DBMP? One doctor called Bradley a pedophile, and that doctor did not make a complaint to the DBMP? How is that possible but for incompetence? I wonder why Charlie has not called them incompetent?
We are going to learn a lot of disgusting things about ourselves and our system of justice. This case represents a failure of both our justice system and our common humanity. It is a case that no doubt involves failures by Republican and Democratic officials, up and down the state, whether they be Judges or Attorneys General or police or doctors or investigators or parents or nurses. It is a case that screams out for an nonpartisan independent investigation, as Govenor Markell has called for, rather than an investigation from the Attorney General’s office that should be busy prosecuting Bradley to the fullest extent possible. Indeed, if Attorney General Biden had its office conduct an investigation and it determined that Republican Jane Brady was at fault, I am 100% positive that Charlie Copeland would scream that the investigation was a partisan witch hunt and that Biden was biased. You know that is true because all Charlie Copeland is any more is a rabid Michelle Bachmann-like partisan. Here he is trying to politicize this case, not for his own benefit, but for his party’s benefit.
For shame, Charlie Copeland. By politicizing this tragedy, you are letting down the very victims of Dr. Bradley.