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For nearly two months prosecutors have suggested that Dr. Earl B. Bradley, the alleged pedophile pediatrician from Lewes, had molested an untold number of children, far more than the nine he was charged in December with raping. Today, the Attorney General’s Office made their suspicions official, with a Sussex County grand jury indicting Bradley in the rapes of 102 girls and one boy he treated, a more-than-tenfold increase in the number of victims originally alleged. Bradley filmed many of his attacks, police have said, and for weeks investigators have been poring over hundreds of videotapes seized from his office and home as they amassed more evidence. “I know that today’s indictment will reopen painful wounds for Lewes and the Sussex County community that has already been deeply traumatized,’’ said Attorney General Beau Biden, who announced the staggering toll detailed in the 471-count indictment that was handed up earlier in the day by a Sussex County grand jury. The case against Bradley, believed to be one of the most heinous allegations of patient sexual abuse against a doctor in American history, will now move toward a trial that could take place later this year. Unless he posts $2.9 million cash bail, Bradley, 56, will await his day in court at the state prison near Smyrna. Police and prosecutors have charged Bradley with almost unspeakable depravity — holding toddlers upside down and yelling at them while committing sex acts; penetrating a girl's vagina with his hand when she was brought in for a sore throat. In one Dec. 13 recording — made three days before his arrest, a 2- to 3-year-old girl was seen screaming and trying to run away from Bradley, police wrote. http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100222/NEWS/100222028/Grand-jury-indicts… added by: bundlebear