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When a Superior Court judge would not let state police search Dr. Earl B. Bradley's office in December 2008, he told investigators he would sign a warrant for the pediatrician's arrest, but prosecutors decided they didn't have enough evidence to prove he was conducting inappropriate vaginal exams, according to an independent report released today.The judge, who was not identified, told a state trooper "he would sign a criminal arrest warrant" when he denied the search warrant application, the report said.During the year-long period from the judge's denial until Bradley's arrest in December 2009, the pediatrician allegedly raped or sexually abused nearly 50 young girls he treated after Attorney General Beau Biden's office decided not to charge him with any crimes. Bradley, who turned 57 Monday, now stands accused of raping or abusing more than 103 children dating back to 1998.The 63-page report, written by Linda L. Ammons, dean of the Widener University School of Law for Gov. Jack Markell, pinpoints a multitude of failures and lack of action by people in position to stop Bradley dating back to 1994, when — after being investigated in Philadelphia for improperly touching a child — he moved his practice to the Delaware seashore town of Lewes and took a job with Beebe Medical Center. Markell ordered the report in January after The News Journal detailed how 2005 and 2008 police investigations into improper touching failed to lead to Bradley's arrest."A tragedy of this magnitude may have been pre-empted if the individuals directly involved had been more focused and alert, less willing to give Bradley the benefit of the doubt, and if they had scrupulously followed the law," Ammons wrote."Systems were in place to catch a perpetrator, but, they were either not properly accessed, or when called upon, human and mechanical error prevented the appropriate actions from being taken."
Isn't Beau Biden in the hospital today?
