Reason 3 to HomeSchool: Teacher Won’t Hogtie 3rd Graders and Make Them Eat Semen
It what seems to be some of the worst teacher on student sexual abuse I’ve ever had the displeasure to see, a pervert teacher in Los Angeles abused boys and girls aged 7 to 10 by tying them up, blindfolding them, and making them eat spoonfuls of his semen. The kids thought it was a game.
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From the LATimes here:
In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine — a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clear packing tape. From that first photograph, detectives spent the next year following a trail that led them to a South Los Angeles elementary school.
They say they found acts of staggering depravity.
There were more photos, it turned out — 400 more, traced to an apartment in nearby Torrance, then to a bustling schoolhouse in South Los Angeles. There, a veteran third-grade teacher sought sexual gratification by spoon-feeding his semen to his students.
Mark Berndt, 61, a teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in the community of Florence-Firestone, was charged with 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children.
Additional charges are likely, authorities said: Berndt had taught at Miramonte since 1979, and though test scores indicate that he was an average teacher, he was such a fixture that parents kept in touch with him after their children grew up, frequently inviting him to birthday parties and quinceañeras.
Berndt, who was being held in lieu of $2.3-million bail, regularly told his students that they were going to play a “tasting game,” in which children were blindfolded and, in some cases, gagged with tape, authorities say. The semen appears to have been ingested by the children on a blue plastic spoon and, according to one alleged victim’s father, on cookies.
The alleged victims were boys and girls ages 7 to 10.
Berndt was fired, but he challenged the firing. But in June, he resigned from the district, which allowed him to keep lifetime health benefits provided by L.A. Unified. He also retains his state teachers pension.
What a despicable person this teacher is! At least he gets to keep his benefits, right?
