Cops say sicko teacher took pix of kids he abused

[onedef92]

Cops say sicko teacher took pix of kids he abused

Posted: Wed, Feb. 1, 2012, 3:01 AM

LOS ANGELES - Authorities said that the elementary- school teacher told the children it was a game. Once inside his third-grade classroom, they said, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces.
And then Mark Berndt photographed them, creating hundreds of images that would eventually lead to his arrest, police say.

Yesterday, Berndt, 61, was sitting in jail on charges that he committed lewd acts on 23 boys and girls, ages 6 to 10, between 2008 and 2010. None of them complained about Berndt's behavior, authorities said.

Police and school officials learned of it only when a film processor found Berndt's photos more than a year ago. Since the discovery, the school district has fired Berndt and police have put him under surveillance.

"If it wasn't for the film processor, this could still be continuing today," said Lt. Carlos Marquez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Berndt was arrested Monday at his home in Torrance and was being held on $2.3 million bail.

Some parents picking up their pre-kindergarteners at the school yesterday complained that officials at Miramonte Elementary School, in South Los Angeles, should have notified them when the photos were found.

"My concern is: Why, if the principal knew this in advance, why didn't he inform us?" said Gloria Polanco, the mother of a second- and a third-grader. "How long has he been doing this?"

The probe began after the film processor, who is required by state law to report suspicions of child abuse and molestation, turned over about 40 photographs to authorities.

Searches of Berndt's classroom and home turned up about 400 photographs depicting children, though the number of pictures may not be the same as the number of kids. At least 10 youngsters in the photos have yet to be identified.

Some photos showed Berndt with his arm around children or his hand over their mouths. Some photos showed children with live bugs the size of hissing cockroaches on their mouths or faces.

Others depicted girls with what appears to be a spoon up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest a clear-white liquid. Children were fed Berndt's semen from a spoon or on cookies, Marquez said.

Berndt, who has no previous arrest record, was placed under surveillance and is not believed to have had contact with children during the investigation. The childless bachelor lives a few blocks from two parks and an elementary school.

"They didn't know they were being violated in that manner," Marquez said. "They just thought it was a game."

Berndt was a teaching assistant in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1976 and 1977, and he began teaching at Miramonte in 1979, according to a district work history obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Berndt had no disciplinary actions on file and performed up to standards in his last five evaluations over the last decade, according to the document.

[Blademaker]

Return the favor.
Blindfold, place starving wharf rats down his pants.
When they're done, insert shotgun barrell in his mouth, pull trigger.
Problem solved.

[Z06David]

So many sick fuks out there!!

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by Blademaker

Return the favor.
Blindfold, place starving wharf rats down his pants.
When they're done, insert shotgun barrell in his mouth, pull trigger.
Problem solved.

Unconscionably, despicably lowdown and dirty!!!!