George Reardon

Authorities examined the cache in an effort to identify and notify previously unidentified victims. By March 2011, approximately 250 victims were identified. One victim claimed to have been abused by Reardon twenty times.

The bill was blocked. In 2010, there were 135 victims suing for compensation. Their lawyers claimed at court that the hospital's owner did not act responsibly. Under then-current law another 60 victims could not sue for compensation because they were older than 48 years, a circumstance that many people believed to be highly unfair.

In 2007, the new owner of Reardon's former home discovered a cache of child pornography hidden behind a false wall. This cache contained approximately 50,000 images as 35mm slides and more than 100 videos of child pornography, presumably created by Reardon.

Reardon was forced to resign in 1993 as victims testified about his sexual abuse. In 1995, he was prohibited from practicing medicine in Connecticut or any other state. Reardon died of a heart attack in 1998.

George Reardon was a physician, and later, chief of endocrinology at Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center, a hospital run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. He worked at the hospital from 1963 to 1993. Early on, there had already been indications of inappropriate conduct with children. In a letter from 1970, Hartford County Medical Association recommended Reardon to take the precaution of having someone else present to prevent future accusations. Despite these warnings, Reardon continued to invite children to a room in the hospital with a bed and camera equipment, where he was allegedly conducting a study on sexual growth. At least some of the victims were told that he was researching adolescence.

George Reardon (May 23, 1930 − September 6, 1998) was an American physician from Hartford, Connecticut, charged with abusing hundreds or possibly thousands of children.