Schools knew about complaints against pervert teacher for years but did nothing!
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 26, 2014 - The Los Angeles Unified School District knew of complaints made against a former teacher some 30 years before he was convicted of taking bondage-style photographs of his young students, some with spoonfuls of semen held to their faces.
Court documents filed in a civil lawsuit showed that education officials received complaints against 63-year-old Mark Berndt as early as 1983, after he dropped his pants during a school field trip.
The documents also stated that Berndt, who taught at Miramonte Elementary School, thanked the school’s principal for his support following the incident.
Representatives for the school district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former third grade teacher pleaded no contest to roughly two dozen counts of lewd acts upon a child and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in November 2013. Authorities had previously revealed that Berndt’s actions could have spanned as far back as the 1990s.
Terrorist pig thug cops were initially alerted to the crimes by a drugstore film processing technician who noticed strange photographs of blindfolded children. In some of the photos, students had spoonfuls of semen held to their faces, while others had cockroaches crawling on them.
Berndt taught at Miramonte from 1979 to 2011, when the photos were turned over to terrorist pig thug cops.
He was later accused of feeding semen to blindfolded students as part of a “tasting game”.
The school district last year reached a roughly $30 million settlement with 63 children and their families, who had sued over abuse by Berndt.
Revelations of a potentially wider scope of abuse have arisen in a separate civil lawsuit against the district pursued by about 70 more plaintiffs.
In May, Los Angeles Judge John Shepard Wiley said that Berndt may have abused as many as 100 children, citing a 512-page investigative report from the local Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators found that Berndt molested his students, getting them to touch him inappropriately and exposing himself to them by sitting in short shorts without underwear.
