CNN report on Delaware Doctor arrested for abusing patients

ByCBG Reading Time: 1 minute

CNN broke a story today about a doctor arrested for abusing 102 girls and a boy on his patient lists. The video report is here and being a new story, we’re not sure how much of it will remain online so catch it quickly.

It’s more shocking that one single disclosure after a decade was the only element granting probable cause to the authorities trying to nail the alleged offender and that there are three more states where he was licensed to practice with the wider list potentially reaching 7000 patients across all four states. The sole miniscule upside was the creation of the child pornography evidence needed to ensure that the pre-verbal toddler victims would be counted without the need for testifying.

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