# RO: LA elementary school teacher charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys & girls ages 7 to 10 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331 "2012-01-31T19:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/1 "2012-01-31T19:36:34Z")
[USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-31/los-angeles-teacher-molestation-photos/52900840/1): > [@](#): > > The investigation began when a film processor gave authorities about 40 photographs depicting blindfolded children in a classroom with their mouths taped shut. > > Some of the photos showed girls with what appears to be a spoon up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest a clear-white liquid. A spoon and container found in trash in [Mark] Berndt’s classroom tested positive for semen, the sheriff’s department statement said. > > Some of the children’s mouths and faces had large, live Madagascar-type cockroaches on them, according to the statement. > > Some photos showed Berndt with his arm around the children or with his hand over their mouths. > > Sheriff’s Lt. Carlos Marquez of the Special Victims Bureau said it was determined the children were given semen on a spoon or on a cookie. Marquez said the children reported they didn’t like the taste. > > Authorities are recommending the children be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. I have no words. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/2 "2012-01-31T19:48:28Z")
From the title, I thought this happened in Louisiana, rather than Los Angeles as is the case. Perhaps a mod can fix it? Reported for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/3 "2012-01-31T20:00:12Z")
I just read this as well, and was horrified. As a parent, there are some things I just don’t want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/4 "2012-01-31T20:13:31Z")
I know that film cameras have their advantages over digital, as I often advocate, but privacy is not one of them. What kind of moron would bring film of something like this to be processed by a photo lab who would see the images? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/5 "2012-01-31T20:35:39Z")
I am sure Starving Artist will be along soon to tell us all what really happened in that class room. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/6 "2012-01-31T20:50:20Z")
I’m slightly confused on the specifics in the article. He was an ex-teacher and yet they found a bottle in his classroom garbage with his jizz in it? What kind of sloppy maintenance does this school have? And he spooned semen into their taped mouths? Somebody needs to re-write that story until it makes sense. No-- skip that. This story will never make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/7 "2012-01-31T21:10:35Z")
Yeah, it said that he committed the lewd acts between 2008 and 2010. Did they just _now_ find the semen sample from his classroom? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/8 "2012-01-31T21:34:38Z")
> **[Teacher accused of taking elementary student 'bondage' photos | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/31/justice/california-teacher-bondage-photos/index.html?hpt=ju_c2)** > > A Los Angeles elementary teacher allegedly took bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom, investigators said. CNN article states scumbag was removed from job in January 2011 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/9 "2012-01-31T21:40:27Z")
He was still teaching until the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department told his school district. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/10 "2012-01-31T21:56:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Sheriff’s Lt. Carlos Marquez of the Special Victims Bureau said it was determined the children were given semen on a spoon or on a cookie. Marquez said the children reported they didn’t like the taste. :mad: Shut up and eat what’s put in front of you! These ungrateful punks these days . . . With all those poor kids starving in Eur- Chin- India? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/11 "2012-01-31T22:40:33Z")
> [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](#): > > I am sure Starving Artist will be along soon to tell us all what really happened in that class room. Well, I laughed. And then groaned. Please, just don’t say his name three times or we’ll be in this thread for 50 pages. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/12 "2012-01-31T22:42:57Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Well, I laughed. And then groaned. Please, just don’t say his name three times or we’ll be in this thread for 50 pages. I know. I just couldn;t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/13 "2012-01-31T22:54:31Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I know that film cameras have their advantages over digital, as I often advocate, but privacy is not one of them. What kind of moron would bring film of something like this to be processed by a photo lab who would see the images? Yes, that’s the big problem here. Well spotted. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/14 "2012-01-31T23:02:56Z")
Wait wait wait. He served them cookies and semen, and they are locking him up for it? Society can be so backwards sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/15 "2012-01-31T23:05:50Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I know that film cameras have their advantages over digital, as I often advocate, but privacy is not one of them. What kind of moron would bring film of something like this to be processed by a photo lab who would see the images? Either someone who wants to get caught or someone who is such a deluded sociopath that he thinks he wont be caught. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/16 "2012-01-31T23:07:35Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Either someone who wants to get caught or someone who is such a deluded sociopath that he thinks he wont be caught. Or someone who forgot which role of film was in which film canister. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/17 "2012-01-31T23:14:03Z")
Or which semen was on which cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/18 "2012-01-31T23:17:45Z")
> [@Valerieblaise](#): > > Yes, that’s the big problem here. Well spotted. I think we all realize what “the big problem is” here, so take that self righteous bullshit and stick it up your ass. Someone always has to come into these kind of threads and chastise people for commenting on amusing secondary details, as if we should all just mindlessly be wailing and droning about how outraged we are. ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/19 "2012-01-31T23:20:17Z")
Thirty years, and not one report till now. Im going to tell myself its because he only started doing it in the last one. Otara ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/20 "2012-01-31T23:27:00Z")
Can we get back to the thing about the cockroaches? I mean… I’ve been around the Internet a few times. Really. But I have yet to run into the “putting cockroaches on people’s faces” fetish. Well, until now, I guess. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331.md?page=2)