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¿Víctima del Dr. Bradley?
La gravedad y alcance de los hechos atribuidos al Dr. Earl Bradley, un pediatra de Lewes, Delaware, que incluyen la violación de nueve menores de edad y el abuso de, al menos, otros cien, algunos de ellos filmados por él mismo, han causado pánico en la familias del sur del estado.
El caso reviste tal gravedad, que el Fiscal General Beu Biden renunció a la posibilidad de ser candidato a Senador por Delaware (cargo que su padre ocupó por 30 años) para dedicarse a investigar y aclarar el caso, considerado el más grave de abuso infantil en la historia de Delaware.
Muchos reportes de prensa se han escrito, y por ellos sabemos que el 16 de diciembre, cuando la policía, con una orden judicial, investigó la oficina de Bradley, encontró evidencias en video de que violó o explotó sexualmente a unos 100 pacientes durante un período de 10 años. Algunas de sus víctimas tenían solo 3 meses de edad. El doctor fue arrestado el 18 de diciembre pasado.
Muchas de sus víctimas provienen de familias de madres solteras o de bajos ingresos, según un reporte publicado por el Cape Gazette que incluso menciona el hecho de que el Dr. Bradley podría haber prestado servicios gratuitos a esos pacientes y, por ende, estarían lejos de quejarse o dejar de llevar sus hijos a consulta.
Aparte de todos los detalles escabrosos de este horrible caso de pedofilia, lo que importa en este momento es, tanto acumular evidencias en su contra, como ayudar a los niños y sus familias que fueron víctimas de sus acciones.
El 21 de enero se supo que el Fiscal General del estado introdujo una demanda contra el pediatra en la Corte Superior del Condado de Sussex. Esta medida, contemplada en la leyes del estado, le permite al fiscal embargar los bienes del acusado con el fin de “preservar sus bienes y poderlos decomisar para sus víctimas,” dijo el fiscal Biden.
Diferentes organizaciones están prestando ayuda a las posibles víctimas del Dr. Bradley. Entre éstas, la policía del estado creó una página web (www.dsp.delaware.gov) con el fin de responder las preguntas más frecuentes en relación con este caso. Una vez en la página, seleccione newsroom y a la mano derecha seleccione “F.A.Q. Reference to the Dr. Bradley case” (Preguntas frecuentes publicadas en español en esta edición.)
El Fiscal General de Delaware también habilitó una oficina en Lewes, ubicada en la calle 4 y Savannah Road, para recibir las denuncias y prestar ayuda a las víctimas potenciales. La Sra. Patricia Dailey, a cargo de esta oficina en Lewes, instó a todas las familias que llevaron a sus hijos al Dr. Bradley a llevar fotografías que puedan ayudar a identificar a posibles víctimas.
En un artículo escrito por Kevin Spence, se informa, que el Consejo de Justicia Criminal de Delaware (CJC por sus siglas en inglés) dispuso el 11 de enero, de 145.000 dólares para ayudar a los pacientes del Dr. Bradley, más de un tercio de ese dinero estará destinado a la comunidad hispana, sin duda la más vulnerable a las prácticas indecentes del doctor acusado de pedofilia.
A este respecto la secretaria de niños y familias, informó que estos fondos no están completamente disponibles hasta la próxima semana. “En la comunidad hispana hemos tomado los siguientes pasos,” explica la oficina de prensa de niños y familias, “estamos trabajando con la Esperanza para que sirva como el principal proveedor de servicios de consejería y coordinador de grupos de apoyo para las comunidades. La Esperanza tendrá charlas semanales en la comunidad y contactará a todos los medios de comunicación en español para difundir esta información. El Departamento de Niños y Familias contrató recientemente a Maureen Taylor como coordinadora a tiempo completo en Sussex, para ayudar a poner en funcionamiento un plan de respuesta.”
La Directora Ejecutiva de La Esperanza, por su parte explicó que cuentan con los servicios de Rosemary Martinez para ayudar a las víctimas y de Nidda Biggs como consejera bilingüe.
Todo aquel que ha estado o está preocupado porque su hijo(a) pueda ser una víctima de Bradley puede contactar a la policía del estado al número gratuito 856-5850 o a Mirta Collazo en el 302- 8565353
Are You One of Dr. Bradley’s Victims?
The severity of the offences committed by Earl Bradley, a pediatrician in Lewis, DE, include the rape of nine minors and the abuse of at least another hundred (some of them filmed by the latter.) These have caused panic throughout families south of the state.
The offense is of such degree, that the Delaware Attorney General, Beu Biden, gave up the possibility of becoming a candidate for the state senate (position that his father occupied for 30 years) to dedicate all of his time to the investigation of, what is considered, Delaware’s worst child abuse case.
Many news reports have been published about the case and from these we know that, on December 16th, the police with a warrant searched Dr. Bradley’s office and found video evidence of the rape or sexual abuse of some 100 patients, during a 10-year span. Some of the victims were only 3 months old. Dr. Bradley was arrested on December 18th.
According to the Cape Gazette, many of his victims were children of single mothers or low income families; and therefore he could have offered free services to these victims. Because of this, parents were less likely to make complaints or refrain from taking their kids to their appointments. Aside from all these lurid details of this horrible case of pedophilia, what matters most at this point, is to gather as much evidence as possible against the doctor and help all the victims and their families.
On January 21st, it was known that the Attorney General of the state filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against Pediatrician Earl Bradley in Sussex County Superior Court. This measure, as state laws indicate, allows the attorney general to put a lien against and forfeit the defendant’s assets in order to “preserve his assets, and ultimately seize them for the victims” said attorney Biden.
Different organizations are offering their help to the victims of Dr. Bradley, among them, the state police created an internet site (www.dsp.delaware.gov) with the goal of answering the most frequent questions related to this case; once on the home page, click on newsroom and on the right, click on “F.A.Q Reference to the Dr. Bradley Case” (published in Spanish in this issue).
The Attorney General of the state of Delaware has opened an office in Lewis in order to receive any new reports and to help potential victims; it is located on 4th street and Savannah Road. Mrs. Patricia Daily, who is in charge of this office, explained that it is essential that all families that took their children to Dr. Bradley bring pictures in order to identify possible victims.
Kevin Spence informed in an article, that the Criminal Justice Council (CJC) made about $145,000 in funds available for services for alleged Bradley victims; more than one third of this money is aimed to the Hispanic community which, without a doubt, was more vulnerable to the obscene practices of this pediatrician, allegedly accused of pedophilia. The CJC funds have not become fully available, it is anticipated that beginning next week, there will be availability to draw down on these funds. “In the Latino/Hispanic communities we have taken the following steps: we are currently working with La Esperanza to serve as the primary responder for counseling and the support group coordinator for the communities. La Esperanza will staff weekly talks in the community and contact all Spanish speaking media in Sussex to help spread the word. The Children’s Department has also recently hired a full-time coordinator, Maureen Taylor, in Sussex to help put the response plan into place.”
The Executive Director of La Esperanza explained that they rely on Rosemary Martinez to help victims and of Nidda Biggs as a bilingual counselor.
All of those who are or have been concerned because their children may be victims of Bradley, can contact the state police at the toll free number 856-5850 or contact Nirta Collazo at 302-856-5353.
El empleo sigue siendo lo mas importante
"Crearemos un ambiente para nueva prosperidad. Apoyaremos el crecimiento económico, demandaremos un menor y mas eficiente gobierno y le daremos una educación a nuestros hijos de priemra calidad mundial, "dijo el Gobernador Markell
“We will create an environment for new prosperity. We will encourage economic growth, demand a leaner, more efficient government and provide our children a world-class education so they can work in first-class jobs,” Jack Markell.
En su discurso "El estado del estado" el gobernador Markell hablo del empleo y la educacion el jueves 21 de Enero.
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Jobs Remain Markell’s Focus in State of the State
“We will create an environment for new prosperity. We will encourage economic growth, demand a leaner, more efficient government and provide our children a world-class education so they can work in first-class jobs,” Jack Markell.
Dover, DE – Creating more jobs is critical to restoring Delaware’s promise and prosperity, Governor Jack Markell made clear in his State of the State address today January 21
“Our focus is on creating more and better jobs and building a stronger economy for us all. To do that, Delaware must be the best state to start or grow a business. We will create an environment for new prosperity. We will encourage economic growth, demand a leaner, more efficient government and provide our children a world-class education so they can work in first-class jobs,” Markell said.
In an address that spoke frankly of the problems the State faces, Markell struck an optimistic tone while laying out some of the detailed efforts by the State to create more jobs in Delaware. He made clear the State’s competitive advantages, explained how it is fighting to keep every job that is already here and moving aggressively to expand economic opportunity for everyone. He specifically mentioned:
• Supporting the State’s Small Business LIFT program, which helps businesses gain access to critical lines of credit and has aided 37 small businesses in a year.
• Launching the Jobs Incentive Fund to give business the ability to invest in high-growth jobs and implementing a “Business Finders Fee” for businesses that help bring other companies to Delaware.
• Partnering with the SEU to put people to work while driving down the state’s energy costs.
• Improving our quality of life through efforts like statewide recycling and investing in affordable housing through the Housing Development Fund.
• Improving responsiveness to state permitting applications, specifically that DNREC and DelDOT will offer an answer to most applications within 60 days.
• Recognizing the need to expand manufacturing in Delaware.
• Investing in infrastructure, including the Port of Wilmington, to help Delaware export what it makes to other states and countries.
• Supporting Bond Bill funding for a center for high-tech labs, health sciences and other research at the old Chrysler site.
Markell said: “To restore Delaware’s promise and prosperity, we will reshape the way we, as a State, do business. We want every business to feel the way the founder of a new company that recently located in Seaford felt when he told me: ‘After doing business with Delaware, I don’t see why anybody would do business anyplace else.’”
Government also needs to be smaller and more efficient if it is going to respond quickly to economic opportunities, Markell said in the speech. The Governor, who will present a balanced budget on January 28, explained a few of the ways that the State has cut costs, including slashing the number of state fleet vehicles; eliminating 1,000 positions in state government; renegotiating leases on state buildings and cutting the total square footage of office space; reducing by 100,000 the number of checks the State cuts each year; no longer printing budget books and saving several hundred thousand dollars in cutting other print projects; and better leveraging the State’s information technology across agencies to save significant IT costs.
“Businesses want to operate in states that prudently manage their fiscal affairs, in good times and bad,” Markell said. “In the end, we want our State government to provide core services and enhance our quality of life in a way that is affordable. That’s what we are doing. By making government leaner and more efficient, we make our State a better place to create new and better jobs.”
World-class jobs require that children receive a world-class education. The State of the State made clear that businesses want to locate in areas with strong public schools where employers can send their children and want a workforce ready to meet new challenges. Delaware has proposed bold new changes and achieved significant buy-in across the state for an education agenda that puts kids first. The State’s education agenda rests on improving student readiness by holding them to high standards; effectively using student data to drive classroom results; ensuring teacher quality; and turning around persistently low-performing schools.
“Providing a world-class education is not only our moral obligation -- our State’s economic future depends on it. Every state is competing for the businesses that seek the best and the brightest of our youth. So we must build on the foundations of success our hard-working teachers and administrators have already established,” Markell said.
“Government cannot be all things to all people,” Markell continued. “Our commitment to protect those who cannot protect themselves is unwavering. Our commitment to educating our children is unshakable. And our commitment to creating jobs is unmistakable. But, to be clear, government alone cannot change the world – only people can.”
Investing in new jobs, making government more cost-effective and strengthening our State’s public schools is the best way to ensure that Delaware succeeds in the long-term, Markell said. He ended his State of the State with a call to action:
“We got through a difficult year together. Because we will keep our commitments to our State and each other, then someday, when we are long past these turbulent times, future generations will look back at the first years of this decade with wonder. They will say that despite enormous struggles against a record-setting recession and unprecedented budget deficits, we joined together to set the State on a better course. They will know that we restored our State’s prosperity and renewed our promise of more accountable government, world-class industries, responsible economic growth, a sustainable quality of life, a well-educated citizenry, and a society of opportunity for all. We will meet these challenges together, because we will seize this chance today and do what is best for our children’s tomorrows. Those future generations will look back and say, this was the beginning of Delaware’s finest hour.”
Full text of the speech available at: http://governor.delaware.gov/speeches/2010stateofstate.shtml
