Okay, we all know that for every jackass like this there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of teachers who take their job and duties seriously. But how did this man get away with this? And how does headline after headline reveal teachers being inappropriate with kids and yet they get through whatever safeguards exist? These aren't rhetorical questions. If I had a kid in public school I'd want a damned answer, and I'd want it now. I want to know how. I want to know how it happens, and what is being done to prevent it. Child predators work in the fields that expose them to children. What is being done to protect them from something as awful as this?
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities say the elementary school teacher told the children that it was a game. Once inside his third-grade classroom, they say, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces.None of them complained. I find that hard to believe, unless they were threatened or intimidated. But if so, how in the hell did this go on for two years without a whisper of prevention?
And then, Mark Berndt photographed them, creating hundreds of images that would eventually lead to his arrest, police say.
On Tuesday, 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.
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