By Daniel P. Jones
Hartford Courant
April 11, 2008
http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hcu-whreardon0411,0,520025.story
West Hartford police are asking the public to help identify three men pictured in sex acts with children - images that were found among the huge cache of child pornography retrieved from the former home of a prominent St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center doctor who died in 1998.
Detectives are not sure if the children in the photographs were among the victims of the doctor, George Reardon, who practiced medicine at the hospital from 1963 to 1993, when he resigned in the face of sordid allegations that he sexually molested children.
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After police retrieved a cache of child pornography from Reardon's former home in November, dozens of people who say they were abused as children by Reardon have come forward to tell their stories to police, and some 85 men and women have sued the hospital alleging it was negligent in not preventing the doctor from molesting them and photographing them in degrading poses.
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The West Hartford investigators are trying to determine whether any of the men were related to or affiliated with Reardon, or whether Reardon acquired the images. Police have not identified the victims - the children - pictured in the photos with the three men.
"They are persons of interest," Det. Donald Melanson said Friday.
Melanson said the three men appeared to be in their 30s and that police believe the photos were probably taken in the 1970s. Anyone with information about the identities of the men is asked to contact the police department's detective division at 860-523-2070.
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"They are persons of interest," Det. Donald Melanson said Friday.
Melanson said the three men appeared to be in their 30s and that police believe the photos were probably taken in the 1970s. Anyone with information about the identities of the men is asked to contact the police department's detective division at 860-523-2070.
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