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The man had his priorities straight.
Beau Biden prosecuted one of the worst pedophiles in American history
Warning: This article contains graphic depictions of sexual abuse.
In 2010, just five years before his death this weekend, the time was never better for Beau Biden to make a run for the U.S. Senate. He was performing well as Delaware’s attorney general; his father, Joe Biden, had left Capitol Hill in 2008 to join President Obama in the White House; a family friend had been keeping the seat warm for the young man.
But Biden declined.
“I have a duty to fulfill as attorney general, and the immediate need to focus on a case of great consequence,” Biden, then 40, said in a statement at the time. “And that is what I must do. … Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate.”
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But “the case of great consequence” Biden stuck around to prosecute involved Earl Bradley — a pediatrician who perpetrated what some called “one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse” by sexually assaulting dozens, if not hundreds, of his young patients.
The numbers were staggering. More than 1,400 patients filed claims against Bradley, who was convicted in 2011 of raping or abusing 86 patients over 11 years. The average age of the victims was just 3 years old, and one alleged victim was just 3 months old.
As the Associated Press explained in 2010: “Bradley allegedly had a ‘violently enraged expression on his face’ as he yelled to a 2-year-old patient to perform sexual acts on him. That particular video was described by the investigating officer in court documents as ‘one of the most violent and brutal attacks on a child of any age’ that he had ever seen.”
According to testimony at his trial, “Bradley gained the trust of parents by offering to bring children downstairs for a Popsicle to relieve the child’s pain, when in fact he would use that time to record sex crimes on video,”Newsworks reported.
Bradley’s public defenders opted to put on no case or witnesses, opting for a judge instead of a jury trial. The trial ended in a day.
A judge sentenced Bradley, then 58, to 14 life sentences without parole for 14 counts of first-degree rape plus more than 160 years for multiple counts of assault and sexual exploitation of a child.
Beau Biden prosecuted one of the worst pedophiles in American history
Warning: This article contains graphic depictions of sexual abuse.
In 2010, just five years before his death this weekend, the time was never better for Beau Biden to make a run for the U.S. Senate. He was performing well as Delaware’s attorney general; his father, Joe Biden, had left Capitol Hill in 2008 to join President Obama in the White House; a family friend had been keeping the seat warm for the young man.
But Biden declined.
“I have a duty to fulfill as attorney general, and the immediate need to focus on a case of great consequence,” Biden, then 40, said in a statement at the time. “And that is what I must do. … Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate.”
*snip*
But “the case of great consequence” Biden stuck around to prosecute involved Earl Bradley — a pediatrician who perpetrated what some called “one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse” by sexually assaulting dozens, if not hundreds, of his young patients.
The numbers were staggering. More than 1,400 patients filed claims against Bradley, who was convicted in 2011 of raping or abusing 86 patients over 11 years. The average age of the victims was just 3 years old, and one alleged victim was just 3 months old.
As the Associated Press explained in 2010: “Bradley allegedly had a ‘violently enraged expression on his face’ as he yelled to a 2-year-old patient to perform sexual acts on him. That particular video was described by the investigating officer in court documents as ‘one of the most violent and brutal attacks on a child of any age’ that he had ever seen.”
According to testimony at his trial, “Bradley gained the trust of parents by offering to bring children downstairs for a Popsicle to relieve the child’s pain, when in fact he would use that time to record sex crimes on video,”Newsworks reported.
Bradley’s public defenders opted to put on no case or witnesses, opting for a judge instead of a jury trial. The trial ended in a day.
A judge sentenced Bradley, then 58, to 14 life sentences without parole for 14 counts of first-degree rape plus more than 160 years for multiple counts of assault and sexual exploitation of a child.
