GEORGETOWN, Delaware: A pediatrician charged with sexually abusing his patients likely attacked more than 100 children at an office he had decked out with a merry-go-round and a ferris wheel, a state official said Wednesday.
The volume of evidence seized from Dr Earl Bradley’s practice and home, including video tapes and computer files, makes it difficult to estimate the number of victims, said Alexis Slutsky, a deputy attorney general assigned to the state’s Child Predator Task Force.
“I’m comfortable in saying probably well over 100 potential victims,” she said at a news conference with Attorney General Beau Biden and other law enforcement officials. Slutsky said the investigation is focusing on cases between 1998 and the present.
Bradley, 56, was arrested last week and is being held in prison on $2.9 million bond. He has been charged with 33 felony counts relating to seven victims. A preliminary hearing Wednesday was postponed until Jan. 14.
Stacy Cohee, a deputy attorney general, said Bradley was not brought to the courthouse for Wednesday’s hearing because corrections officials are “concerned about his mental state right now,” adding that there were concerns he is suicidal.
