This is sickening. What a monster.

I say sell the creeps organs to pay for the damages.

This happens far to often, what about polygraph tests for aspiring teachers? If they are aroused by children this could be discovered with a simple test.

The school didn't know OK, but your their parents you didn't know??? Whats wrong with this picture. More child care, not taking enough interest in the kids. What happend at school today why don't you want to go see teacher grab a--. Whay are you sick all the time, the kids had to show some type of outward problem that the parent didn't pay attention to.

I would probably side with parents on law suit if the suit was truly about the children & justice. Why would a lawyer sue because of the 14 parents mental anguish. Shouldn't this be about the children. Of course if one mine children were involved It would be me going to prison.

Parenting like everything else these days seem to be government based.

How long is this bullsh!t going to keep happening until we lump these mosters with muderers and start executing them?

I agree with you schoolyard in your 1.5 post. Definetly need to figure out some way to stop this maddness. Our judical system is failing misreably. There is NO deterrent to commiting these types of crimes. A few public executions and these creeps would stay away from our kids

Did I read the article correctly where it says the molester was ALLOWED to resign and PAID $40,000 ??? What the heck?? Someone please explain that to me...ohhh no wait ...there couldnt possibly be an explanation !

Dang, just realized I'm missing an "N" in monster! I know you all were smart enough to understand what I meant.

Obviously there are a lot of "WTF?" questions surrounding this guy's mental health. But the detail that confuses me is the fact that in the last 10 years he was still bringing his pictures to a photo processor! It's almost like he wanted to get caught!!!

The core of this stems from the allegation that the school district knew about it through complaints filed and did nothing about it (a la Jerry Sandusky and PSU). By not taking any action, they essentially sanctioned the teacher's actions. This lawsuit isn't meant to help with healing or otherwise, it's punitive in scope. This will force LAUSD to address the issue and ensure it never happens again.

So you like the letter "e"? Got quite a few extras in there.

LA, I work in commercial insurance. YOUR rates won't go up, it is all layered and spread out in specialty markets for this type of coverage. This particular school might get a slight bump in price.

The bigger issue is how much of this sick behavior is going on right now? There are some weird teachers and some suprise visits by staff need to be conducted at the least. I would turn into "Jason" if I found one doing this to my kid.

As a former teacher, I'm wondering how these things happen. I constantly lived in a fishbowl with parents, administrators, and other teachers walking in and out of my classroom. This is so disgusting.

Thats how it falls upon the district , heart2004, as the school is the largest in the state and maybe second in the nation , on year round schedule and in one of the most dangerous hoods in LA and serving one of our most challlenging demographics. With a recent issue of molestation barely behind it that has since been buries , Miramonte somehow ended up woefully understaffed with administrattors, CDE and LAUSD stats are available to the public and what they reveal is pretty damning.---while an ES half the size of MES in say West LA or Eagle Rock or San Marino's affluent burbs has 8 administrators, which is the average for most shools, MEs had merely 4. The ability to supervise and properly evaluate teachers was probably impaired as we know at least one dad complained about the photos to the principal. His response was tomput the child in another ckass. I am fairly sure she ended up with Martin Springer.
According reports that ring true ( unlike Deasy's stories) the principal rlied on veteren Berndt who was always willmg to volunteer and help out without expecting extra pay, A red flag? Perhaps. Definitely those trips to then playground to lure children back to his room during lunch and recess were conspicuous. That is why the unnamed source recalled them when speaking to a reporter. Desasy has tried with some success to lay blame on the staff, asserting they failed to report the strange little man with hissing palmetto bugs in his aquarium.
As you know, teaching is often very isolated. You never see the outsid of your classroom until long after kids go home on most days. It is hard for people to comprehend the work we do, the rapid pace, the next crisis. Berndt , a 30 year vet was probably first in line for everything. I dont see an issue with this as Deasy does, but it made his game so much easier to play. He chose a room off the beaten path where he would not be interrupted. There was a door he could lock and hiss decades at the school made it easy fir him ti seem trustworthy, competent. Parents respected him, kids eally liked his class and the beleaguered principal was no doubt happy he had some much needed support.
He goy away with this without a hitch except for in the near grab cops made in the early 90s. The reports were no where to be found when detectives asked for them recently. Like a lot of incriminating documents they must have ended up shredded. . I believe Deasy was criminally indifferent when he chose not to inform parents what may haabe happened to their kids. He knew bodily fluids were involves but cared more about protecting the assets and his position at PAUSD than the the health of students who could have been infected with STDs , AIDs or Hep,
He lied so many times, Huff Post was updating its reports every few minutes. Whydidntbhe justnreport Berndt to CTC ? He broke the law, used the credential for leverage and made a dealmwith the devil whom was allowed to work in the year before his arrest, just not at Lausd. He got 40 k on top of 4k a month and lifetime healthcare. Few teavhers bring home that now that we have so many forlough days and constant overpayments to repay , though none of us know why. We dare not ask.
And if you ask most LAUSD teachers, TAs etc. they will admit they know better than to report colleagues suspected of abuse.
Did MES teavhers know what was going on in Berndt's class? Probably not. Who could dream up something so surreal ? Did they suspect someypthing wasnt right? Of course some had to . But that is not enough to justify report that may stain someone unfairly and my guess is none of tyem wanted to know so they put it out of mind. They steered clear of him.
Most of the teahers probably had no contact with him outside of staff meetings. It is a largely Latina staff and my experience with these women has been that they are tightly knit , close as sisters and politely self-contaained. It is unlikely they saw anything overt . I am willing to bet a student would , however, trust one of the with their secrets and that if a child revealed something awful they would act professionally and with compassion.
Thatnis something Deasy did not do. The culture of silence is alive and well despite what hee wants us to believe. He himself made sure of this by interfering with police investigation into Bernt and Chapels case, perhaps others. He removed the entire staff against parental appeals to leave them there , squandering 5 million in a budget crunch for one reason: to cover his skinny butt. Those teachers were debriefed and warned not to speak to the media. They were later told they had to reapply for jobs at their school and many would not be going back, which means they have to find work in the six weeks of summer or face being displaced which is often the kiss of death professionally. With their records reflecting 5 months of being housed off their site, it is very unlikely they will find work at another district. We hear most school districts simple will not hire any lausd refugees at this point. After LAUSD unleashed George Hernandez on Inglewood schools knwing full well he was a compulsive pedophile , one can see their reasoning.
So not only did Deasy create the conditions ( like Cortines) by shortchanging a school in the hood where he knew no one would complain , he essentially derailed many careers and estranged teavhers committed to a hard to staff school from a communtity thats devotion and faith in them has never waivered. Divide and Conquer .one way or another, at all costs.

How about law suits against the union that protects these teachers? That just might stop some of the protection if it hits the union in the pocket. I don't know...can you sue a union?

Sorry, these kids were not traumatized until they found out from their parents what was being done to them. They just thought they were playing a game, eating cookies. They were not molested. They were forced to eat cookies with the guys semen on it. They had cockroaches placed on their heads. This is just another way for the parents/lawyers to make a buck. Why does nobody connect the dots. If you give out big jury awards to people who eat dog food (firefighter) who was a hazer himself, the fire fighters do not pay the bill, the people who pay the taxes in the county of LA do. Well at least these families will no longer be on assistance because they will not qualify any longer.

I never could understand why schools and other institutions prefer to settle these cases out of court--- even before the alleged perpetrator has been tried and convicted for the charges against them. Sexual abuse cases have precident over ALL other news stories. Case in point: a local Los Angeles newscast on one of the major networks decided that a chase between an LAUSD teacher accused of sexual abuse and the local police was more important than the state of our economy or the heatwave Los Angeles is experiencing. When is the media going to end this all-out assault on sex crimes? Even though the public needs to keep informed, we do have more pressing issues that need to be addressed first. As it was with the Catholic priests, as soon as one alleged victim comes forward, others get on the bandwagon. The same applies here with LAUSD. Once one makes an accusation, others see an opportunity for some easy (and substantial) money. Let us wait to see if the perpetrator is convicted first before shelling out taxpayer money. And, in my opinion, the media should stop making such a major issue out of something still in the investigation stage.

Are you for real? Those children were abused whether you see it as that or not. What hell is wrong with you? They have no idea what kind of disease he may have, cockroaches are disease carriers. This goes so far beyond the pale.

And why is it that anytime someone sues, they automatically have to be on some type of assistance. What you don't think that people that are well off don't sue? Got news for you, yes they do and they do it often.

Let me guess, you are a registered Republican and you think that Mitt Romney's business model is the bees knees. Go away please, you are the reason that people like this end up in the school system. You would rather bash the victims and their families than deal with the fact that the school district knew and did not put a stop to this madness.

Of course you sue the school. This went on for many years and they did nothing. You clowns that think that this is just about money are nuts. What is the alternative? My prefered method would be to send everyone that shoved this under the carpet to prison. This should be considered criminal neglect.

This is one of the worst things that could happen to children of that age.

Agreed. Although, without further information, we can't say why it failed. It may have been overly restrictive or too vague in scope. We simply don't know enough. We can hope that it will be presented again and approved. It's obviously necessary.

SB-1530 was killed during the Assembly Education Committee late Wednesday, June 27. Supporters of the bill say the legislation would have streamlined the process of firing teachers accused of sexual assault, but teachers say the bill would have comprised their rights. Patrick Healy reports from Downtown Los Angeles for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on June 28, 2012.

I just hope that school districts haven't done like the Catholic church and just moved teachers to another district as a way of 'dealing with the issue'.

That's exactly what they do, move teachers around, and of course minorities got this unwanted pervs.

I meant 'these unwanted pervs'

Such abuse has been going on for generations & even worst. The main problem is people didn't take time to listen or believe their children. Really, why would we even say an teacher or priest/pasture would do such a thing. Beside who would believe a child over a adult.

As a teacher with over 30 years of teaching experience, I am appalled that anyone, anyone, would think of doing such actions with kids of any age - little ones to the highschoolers. That said, it is not only the education profession that has such individuals as members. Note politicians of late. Individual responsibility and integrity needs to be modelled more and valued more.

And WTF does CGabriel's comment have to do with anything, racist POS: "...and of course minorities got this unwanted pervs" I guess CGabriel isn't aware that whites are the new minority...

I agree with the earlier writer that said laws must be enacted that make the sexual abuse of ANYONE...men, women, children stricker laws, higher penalties. EVERYONE knows that sex abusers cannot be rehabilitated so why should taxpayers pay for them to live a live of leisure? There should be a death penalty after the first offense.

not sex starved, sex crazed. Look at the proliferation of pornography and of sex in the media. Oh, wait, there is no connection to that and molestation, it's all just "innocent" fantasy. Yeah, right. Pornography is a disease that poisons the mind and spirit, and using sex to sell everything has it's consequences. We live in an ever increasingly perverse society, and our kids are the ones paying the biggest price.

Those districts are used as LAUSDs version of Siberia.
You think he ended up in Bell after 8 years sevice as a promotion?
And too bad for you whites are the new minority,that means they hop on the gravy train and YOU as the new majority get to pay the freight.

How about we are HEARING more about the few things that do happen. Seems like when one is reported, it comes out as fifty different stories in thirty different places, until you read the whole thing. Have to sell stories, don't you know?

not true.

Jeff y., seriously, son, you need to do some REAL reading, not the pap they hand out in paperback form. Try some Dickens for a change. While he didn't write history, he wrote about what he knew. Also, about any story you can find about English boarding schools will show you things you will wish you had never known.

While it's a great idea, Lisa, the problem is getting people involved. So many people today just don't care until it happens to them.

Maybe it's a program that could be started with retired teachers who still want to contribute and maybe even grandparents who want to volunteer. Get them to sign up for 2 to 4 hour shifts, 2 to 5 days a week.

It's definitely a great idea that could work if properly implemented.

Lisa & Tom, your suggestions are nice but unrealistic. How do you propose to find that many "qualified" people to volunteer in a child's classroom? Do you have school age children? How many hours do you spend volunteering in your child's classes?

I worked for a school district as an aide for 15 years. The school was located in an affluent neighborhood. As I recall, the Kindergarten teachers tried to schedule volunteers (mostly parents) to cover their half day classes and sometimes that was often a challenge. Teachers appreciate the help of volunteers when they can get it, but it is a rare occurrence.

This case should be about the children, not the mothers. If the school is legitimately at fault here, there should be consequences. Unfortunately school districts have become easy targets for frivolous lawsuits by parents looking for easy money.

Why can't they implement the same type of camera's and voice recorders that they have on school busses in the classroom? I am never not on camera and video tape anywhere in that vehicle.

about the volunteering: most parants have jobs. i like the idea with cameras in the school. AND HERES A NEW FOCKING IDEA, TALK TO YOUR CHILD.

Or how about this...."None of the plaintiffs were aware of Berndt's alleged activities" Amazing that not one kid told their parents about strange happenings at school....IMHO

lance...Bingo! Nothing said about the stress of the children. HUH?

Phuck you scab!

Goon! there, nah,nah nah,nah,nah!

Greg, unions will OUT someone like this as soon as THEY are alerted to what is going on. As of now, this man is considered innocent in the eyes of the law, other than the FACT that being accused of any sort of a sex offense against a child is an automatic assumption of guilt until found not guilty. Again, in the eyes of the law, it is almost impossible to prove innocence. Even when you can prove you were nowhere near the crime scene at the time the crime was committed, you can be found guilty simply because you were accused. Now what union will not do what is necessary to protect a possibly innocent person until guilt is proven? That is part of the job description, just as it would be if you were a union member working for GM or Chrysler, or any of a few thousand other businesses where unions have contracts.

Jennifer. if you have been that protective of your child, what do you think his or her chances are going to be out in the real world where momma can't scare off the big, bad boss? Protect the kids from real danger to the best of your ability, but you do have to let them know life isn't all about always being able to run home to mom every time they stub their toe.

Bet it's way over half. Check the stats on the "Love Canal class action suit. There's another, but I can't recall the name. Those effected got a few thousand dollars a peace, while the lawyers go 10's of millions a piece.

In Floirda it's 33-1/3 & once an Answer is filed the fee goes up to 40%, plus costs. How much do you think these people would get without a lawyer?

SIESTASIS...you are right! Sue for his pension. If he has worked an amount of time he should have a substantial amount. But...can you sue for a pensin fund?

There are certain funds that are protected from lawsuits and pension funds are one of them.

Brian, have you ever had a contract guaranteeing you a certain amount of money a year for a given number of years, with a buy out option? The school board was stuck with a teacher they wanted to get rid of, and the fastest way to get him out of the system was to buy him out of the remainder of his contract and let him resign. Union or no, you just don't fire contract personnel.

I agree Borderland. There is no hope for the preditors they all have been brain damaged or dropped on their heads as a baby or were just never wired right in first place.

These mofos can't be rehabbed....so ship them off to some deserted island to fend for themselves or better yet, exterminate them.

Borderlands, how many sex offenders have you ever knowingly worked with? Do a bit of investigating, more than the anti-sex offender junk so many places are putting out, and you will find that they actually have a LOWER recidivism rate than the average sneak thief, and even more rarely is it a sex crime that puts them back in the system.

Protect our children ?? Get involved in your childrens lives, find out what is going on with them. Schools are not baby-sitting services.

Schools are not baby-sitting services.

No - but they ARE responsible for Protecting the CHILDREN whom they are there to educate.

You have no idea what this would do to mothers! The anguish to think your child now has lifelong problems and the stress of your young child being violated in this way would be unbearable! Obviously you have no understanding or compassion for children or parents.

AllPeopleRights, funny how the idea of a bit of money creates such a humongous amount of distress over what may or may not have happened to poor little Jimmie. Even funnier when the suing parents didn't know anything about any of this until a lawyer talked to them.

eah 99% percent of time you see this sexual demonic activities its ALWAYS whites. The random acts by other races are there but NO WHERE NEAR Caucasians . Although if you look at their history you'll understand their behavior today. They are TOTALLY destructive people!

It is true as most stereo types are. In other words the stereo type exists because their s a tendency for the grroup to behave this way.mwhites are largely identified as snipers, massmurderes,, militia, vigilantes, seriel killers, school shooters, seriel killers, and white collar criminals , but Qi really dont think they have cornered the market on child molesting . Reports of Hispanic abusers are fairly common and often within families. Many students tell me these things and AA as well as Latinos are violated. My scjool has very few white students . i have maybe two a year, and usually one is avictim of some type of abuse at home, this is no surprise given the socioeconomic status and addiction /alcohol, mental illness and dysfunctiion .
I cannot defend white people as I grew up in the South during the 70/ and it was deplorable. I am of mixed race, and must stress I was beat down and rejected by whites and blacks.
It is telling that white women are the primary patients in fertility treatment where eggs and soerm have to be coaxed in a test tube because her body is just to hostile for conception. This is probably Darwin and his theory at work,
One this is true, whites are a minority. Which may explain their. Desperate attempts to take over the world,