[net-gold] CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE : EDUCATION: K-12 : UNITED STATES: CITIES: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: $23 Million Bond Set for Teacher Accused of 'Bondage' Photos of Kids
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- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:55:17 -0500 (EST)
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE :
EDUCATION: K-12 :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA:
$23 Million Bond Set for Teacher Accused of 'Bondage' Photos of Kids
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$23 Million Bond Set for Teacher Accused of 'Bondage' Photos of Kids
By Alan Duke
CNN
February 1, 2012 -- Updated 1756 GMT (0156 HKT)
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Bond was set at $23 million Wednesday for a Los
Angeles elementary school teacher who allegedly took bondage photos of
more than two dozen students in his classroom -- $1 million for each of
the 23 counts he faces of lewd acts on a child.
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The 400 photographs collected by investigators include some showing
suspected semen-filled spoons at the children's mouths, a sheriff's
investigator said.
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Mark Berndt, 61, appeared briefly before a Los Angeles judge for his
initial court appearance Wednesday morning, represented by a
court-appointed public defender.
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His next court appearance was set for February 21.
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Authorities arrested Berndt at his home Monday, and charged him with the
23 felony counts.
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"I feel for those parents and for those babies -- those helpless babies,"
Wanda Mosley, a resident who lives near Miramonte Elementary School, told
CNN affiliate KABC.
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The chilling accusations were a stunning betrayal for many parents.
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"I'm angry. I'm disgusted. I'm sad," Kimberly Kirklin told the station.
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The probe started when a film processor gave investigators "over 40
photographs depicting children in a school classroom, with their eyes
blindfolded and mouths covered with tape," a Los Angeles County Sheriff's
statement said.
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"Investigators learned that some of the photos depicted suspect Mark
Berndt with his arm around the children, or with his hand over their
mouths," it said.
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Some photos show female students with "what appeared to be a blue plastic
spoon, filled with an unknown clear/white liquid substance, up to their
mouths as if they were going to ingest the substance," the statement said.
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Other photos showed "children with large live Madagascar-type cockroaches
on their faces and mouths," it said.
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Investigators, who interviewed more than 80 current and former students
and school employees, identified 23 boys and girls then between the ages
of 7 and 10 years old as alleged victims in crimes that are believed to
have been committed between 2005 and 2010, it said.
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Questions swirl around teacher as more allegations arise
L.A. Unified tries to determine why Mark Berndt escaped suspicion for
years as former students recount previous complaints. Detectives say
inquiry moved slowly due to sensitive subject.
By Alan Zarembo, Richard Winton and Howard Blume
Los Angeles Times
February 2, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teacher-20120202,0,3301893.story?
track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+
latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7tfkdae
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The Los Angeles Unified School District launched an internal investigation
to determine how a teacher accused of bizarre acts of lewd conduct against
the students in his classroom escaped suspicion for so long.
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The investigation comes as detectives said Wednesday that several new
potential victims have come forward and parents at Miramonte Elementary
School demanded to know why the alleged crimes went undetected for five
years.
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"How do I make sense out of the fact that this took place over a number of
years and no one seemed to know about that?" L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy
said in an interview Wednesday. "I'm definitely trying to understand how
someone could not have known."
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Deasy and other school officials said they have no records of anyone
complaining about former teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who is accused of
gagging students with tape, blindfolding them and spoon-feeding his semen
to them as part of a "tasting game."
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But one woman who identified herself as a former student came forward
Wednesday to say that school staff had looked into a complaint made
against Berndt in the 1990-91 school year.
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In an interview, Marlene Trujillo said she was a fourth-grader in his
class at the time, and that she wasn't sure what to make of her teacher's
odd behavior.
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She said Berndt often moved his hands under his desk, near his lap, at the
front of the classroom. She and other students had seen a jar of Vaseline
in one of his desk compartments.
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Trujillo, a 30-year-old paralegal, said she was called before a school
counselor with two other girls after one of them complained about Mr.
Berndt's alleged behavior.
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"I didn't say much during the meeting," Trujillo said. Finally, the
counselor "just told us it's not very good to make stories up. She said it
was our imagination. It was never talked about again."
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