Some More Reading on the St. Francis/reardon Child Sex Abuse Case, by Susan Campbell, Hartford Courant, August 16, 2011

Some More Reading on the St. Francis/reardon Child Sex Abuse Case

By Susan Campbell
Hartford Courant
August 16, 2011

http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/2011/08/some-more-reading-on-the-st-fr.html

Plaintiffs in a landmark child sexual abuse case have filed an objection to a motion for protective order filed last week by St. Francis hospital's legal team. (You can get a sense at the multiple motions on this case here. The hospital has fought tooth and nail accepting responsibility for one of its own.)

The hospital is embroiled in a years-long legal battle over its former head of endocrinology, George Reardon, who used a bogus growth study to lure countless children and adolescents into his office, where he sexually abused and exploited them. The hospital's defense is that officials there didn't know about Reardon's pedophilia. In fact, the hospital had a checks-and-balance system in place that was never applied to the endocrinology chief. In fact, the hospital paid for the photography equipment Reardon used to shoot pornographic slides of his patients. Those slides were discovered in 2007, hidden in a wall in Readon's former West Hartford home. Reardon died in '98.

Earlier this month, the hospital was sanctioned by Superior Court Judge Dan Shaban for failing to provide information they are required to provide in a trial. Roughly 30 cases have been decided already; about 60 await trial.

You can read the latest motion from the plaintiffs here:

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