proof that we are officially in the handbasket.. WTF??

[VINMAN]

This has to be one of the most sickening things i ever seen. If true this guy needs some seriously jailhouse justice done to him.

Teacher charged with lewd acts allegedly told kids it was 'game' - latimes.com

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Teacher charged with lewd acts allegedly told kids it was 'game'
January 31, 2012 | 9:02 am 4655A Miramonte Elementary School teacher who taught for three decades in South L.A. told students they would be playing "a game" before tying them up and feeding them from a spoon possibly containing semen, sources said.

Mark Berndt, 61, who is charged with lewd acts on 23 children and was taken into custody Monday, told the children the spoon contained something sugary and sweet, but authorities said they believed the substance was his semen, said the sources, who declined to comment on the record because the investigation is ongoing.

Berndt was fired in March and was being held Tuesday on $2.3-million bail.

A spoon recovered from a trash bin in Berndt's classroom is a key piece of evidence, said Capt. Mike Parker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

"Early in the investigation, special victims bureau detectives recovered a blue plastic spoon and an empty container from the trash within the suspect’s classroom," Parker said. "The recovered items tested positive for semen."

Through further investigation, the suspect’s DNA was obtained and tested, and officials said it matched that of the DNA found on the spoon and container.

Berndt's arrest capped a nearly yearlong investigation by the L.A. County sheriff's special victims unit.

The investigation began when a photo processor turned over to authorities pictures of some alleged acts of bondage and the spoon-feeding, officials said.

The 23 alleged victims are both boys and girls and ranged in age from 7 to 10. The crimes occurred between 2008 and 2010, Parker said.

Investigators recovered photos from the processor and Berndt's home that allegedly showed the students bound and blindfolded and some with large Madagascar cockroaches crawling on them inside the school setting, Parker said.

Some girls were allegedly photographed with a blue spoon holding a white substance near their mouths, Parker said.
"Early in the investigation, special victims bureau detectives recovered a blue plastic spoon and an empty container from the trash within the suspect’s classroom," Parker said. "The recovered items tested positive for semen."

Parker said that, so far, 10 children in the photos recovered have not been identified. More than 80 children and staff have been in interviewed. Miramonte Elementary is in the Florence Firestone unincorporated area of Los Angeles County and is within the Los Angeles Unified School District.

[masraum]

Wow, one sick SOB.

[pwd72s]

Predators go where the prey is...

[vash]

it's official.

that is the most troubling news story..ever.

that man needs to die.

[lonewolf]

Could only read half of that.
I'm just shaking my head. those poor kids.

[dennis in se pa]

Originally Posted by vash

it's official.

that is the most troubling news story..ever.

that man needs to die.

Death is too good.

He needs to be tortured slowly, continuously, for a year at least. And it must be available for the public to see so we can show what happens to sick bastards.

Or we can use Sharia law and bury him up to his neck and stone him.

[flipper35]

No stones, weed eater.

[flatbutt]

There are times that I just know that as a species we are doomed.

[Rick V]

He needs to be beaten until he reaches the point where the beating become useless, then run across with an eletric potato peeler, then covered in brown gravy and locked in a room with a rabid wolverine or huny badger. This should be after we remove his eye lids so he can not close them. He deserves to die a very slow and painful death.
I sure hope when he goes to prison he is put in general population

[Moses]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Berndt was fired in March...

Perhaps the most shocking part of the story. The union let one go.

[lane912]

I have some stuff for him to "blind taste test"--

[A930Rocket]

Being everyones girlfriend in prison is to good for that morher****er. I hope he rots in Hell.

[skunked]

let him in mingle with the general population at the prison, justice will be served.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by skunked

let him in mingle with the general population at the prison, justice will be served.

never gonna happen

[dentist90]

If Big Mo in cell block C did get hold of him he would get a taste of his own medicine, no spoon necessary.

[Bill Douglas]

So all the stories are true - I mean the things that go on in LA?

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by skunked

let him in mingle with the general population at the prison, justice will be served.

I wish, won't happen

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by Moses

Perhaps the most shocking part of the story. The union let one go.

Sexual assault is about one of the only crimes that will get you fired here and it happens more often than you think. You are very likely to have a teacher in your local PS that has a criminal record.
We just had a woman teacher booted for messing with students, Quebec had a RC school secretary doing porn, Sex ed classes being taught how to give a good BJ, a principal stealing over $100K (just a demotion IIRC), etc., etc.

This is the disciplinary decisions from Ontario's college of teachers, it's a pain because they are all PDF's, but about every "revoked" is a sex assault.
Disciplinary Decisions - The Ontario College of Teachers

Just one more reason we homeschool

[porsche4life]

Thank the lord I went to school in a small town.... Not saying this couldn't happen, just saying its widely known that if something like this happened, the law would be the least of the pervs worries.... That tends to deter it....

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Moses

Perhaps the most shocking part of the story. The union let one go.

Bingo!