Deceased Doctor Pedophile Sued for Medical Malpractice

This is one of the most bizarre cases on record. A deceased doctor’s estate sued for medical malpractice.

Just when you think you might have heard just about everything, and nothing would surprise you, along comes a truly strange tale; a tale from the grave. This is a reported story about a doctor who, during the course of what he referred to as “growth studies,” took thousands of pictures of naked kids as he was masturbating them. It’s a story about a hospital that let the man run amuck without supervision. It’s a story about innocent children who were victims of a warped mind.

The malpractice suit stated that the hospital failed the children, thanks to negligent supervision, and also breached their special duty of care to them. The defense argued it was not their job to supervise the unknown, kinky behavior of the doctor in charge of a project and their main concern would have been to supervise research protocols. The plaintiff is asking the court for between $5 and $8 million. There was not just one plaintiff involved in this horrendous case; there were an estimated total of 94 plaintiffs, seeking justice.

The shocking revelations that the deceased Dr. Reardon had engaged in sexual abuse came to light as the result of a strange twist of fate. The new owner of the doctor’s house was remodeling, when he broke open a wall where a cache of over 50,000 pictures were nestled – slides of naked girls and boys, with some of them posed in sexually provocative positions.

Evidence at trial showed that the hospital did not take any measures to check Reardon’s “growth study” between the mid-60’s and 80’s, when the first of many complaints were made to the state medical board. Dr. Reardon died in 1998, with no one the wiser about his unethical activities, until the pictures were found in 2007. He was never sued civilly.

The deceased doctor had children come into the hospital on a regular basis and measured their genitalia with calipers, roughly every six months. Although no one was quite sure why a doctor with zero for experience in the area of pediatric medicine was conducting this study, no one asked any questions.

In the meantime, Reardon, the chief of endocrinology, was masturbating children on a regular basis. Counsel for the plaintiff suggested that if the hospital had bothered to supervise the study, Reardon would have been caught and the pain and humiliation his victims suffered would have been put to a stop. All it would have taken was a systematic review of what the doctor was doing in his office on the fourth floor of the hospital. After all, the hospital bought enough film for 38,000 pictures. Wasn’t anyone wondering where those pictures were and what they entailed? Evidently not.

Medical malpractice? Yes, in a different form than what we typically think of malpractice as being, but malpractice nonetheless. Not everyone will be involved in a case like this, but obviously, the truth is stranger than fiction. This is one of the reasons why, if you suspect you have been the victim of some form of medical malpractice at the hands of a medical professional, don’t wait at home, second guessing whether you have a case or not. Pick up the phone and call a seasoned medical malpractice lawyer and find out if you “do” have a case and cause worth pursuing in the courts.

Michael G. Smith is anArkansas personal injury lawyer and Arkansas business dispute lawyer, practicing personal injury law and veteran’s benefits in Arkansas. Learn more by visiting Arkansaslawhelp.com

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