# 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:** 2
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/21 "2012-01-31T23:32:51Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > 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. Yeah, when in doubt, always escalate to “stick it up your ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/22 "2012-01-31T23:40:34Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > 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. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/23 "2012-01-31T23:58:21Z")
He blindfolded and gagged kids in a _classroom_? And put cockroaches on them? And nobody at the school noticed? And not one single kid went home and said, “Mr. X bound and gagged me and put cockroaches on my face! It was cool!” This has got to be the strangest story in a while. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/24 "2012-02-01T00:12:43Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > He blindfolded and gagged kids in a _classroom_? And put cockroaches on them? And nobody at the school noticed? And not one single kid went home and said, “Mr. X bound and gagged me and put cockroaches on my face! It was cool!” > > This has got to be the strangest story in a while. A longer AP report has somewhat of an explanation: > [@](#): > > Miramonte serves a poor, mainly Hispanic neighborhood. More than half of its approximately 1,400 students are still learning English, according to the school’s website. > > “They didn’t know they were being violated in that manner. They just thought it was a game,” [Sheriff’s Lt. Carlos] Marquez [of the Special Victims Bureau] said. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/25 "2012-02-01T00:31:43Z")
Only one girl but [this](http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/01/30/2702997/clovis-unified-teacher-recorded.html#storylink=cpy) is scary in how similar it is. Mother notices her child isn’t on the playground at recess, girl says “Oh I was in the classroom with teacher playing the lollipop game” Blindfolded. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/26 "2012-02-01T00:37:46Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > A longer AP report has somewhat of an explanation: > > > [@](#): > > > > Miramonte serves a poor, mainly Hispanic neighborhood. More than half of its approximately 1,400 students are still learning English, according to the school’s website. > > > > “They didn’t know they were being violated in that manner. They just thought it was a game,” [Sheriff’s Lt. Carlos] Marquez [of the Special Victims Bureau] said. Because, as we all know, Spanish has no word for cockroach. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/27 "2012-02-01T00:39:15Z")
If I had only known that this was the game the song referred to. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/28 "2012-02-01T00:50:34Z")
What. The. FUCK!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/29 "2012-02-01T01:00:23Z")
And not one child asked in the past 30 years mentioned this “game” when asked what they did in school that day? This whole story is mind boggling. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/30 "2012-02-01T01:03:14Z")
I love this detail too, from the story in the OP: > [@](#): > > A blue plastic spoon and container found in trash in Berndt’s classroom tested positive for semen, the sheriff’s statement said. I know I definitely would have wondered what color the plastic spoon was. But wait - were the spoon _and_ the container blue? Or was it just the spoon that was blue? If so, why wasn’t the container’s color specified? I think future revisions of this story really need to include that crucial information. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/31 "2012-02-01T01:46:05Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I know I definitely would have wondered what color the plastic spoon was. Because it was before Labor Day, right? ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/32 "2012-02-01T02:04:42Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Wait wait wait. He served them cookies and semen, and they are locking him up for it? Society can be so backwards sometimes. Well, they were oatmeal raisin. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/33 "2012-02-01T02:30:29Z")
Pan fried semen cookies? ---
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/34 "2012-02-01T02:39:35Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > 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. Yeah, it’s a thing. There are clearly sexually-oriented videos out there of people eating bugs and the like. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/35 "2012-02-01T03:05:58Z")
☹ Jesus, doesn’t anybody just fuck a little kid up the ass any more?! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/36 "2012-02-01T03:33:23Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > ☹ Jesus, doesn’t anybody just fuck a little kid up the ass any more?! And I thought what I said was bad! I guess we’ll both be burning in hell together 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/37 "2012-02-01T03:35:47Z")
> [@mister\_nyx](#): > > Yeah, it’s a thing. There are clearly sexually-oriented videos out there of people eating bugs and the like. And if there happen to be ones of bugs eating people, I don’t really need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/38 "2012-02-01T03:40:19Z")
It’s a fetish planet. It’s a bug planet. Would you like to know more? ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/39 "2012-02-01T03:52:38Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > If I had only known that this was the game the song referred to. Yes, this is the game. Being poor and Mexican, all we had to play with was tape, cookies, semen, and the occasional cucaracha grande. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-la-elementary-school-teacher-charged-with-committing-lewd-acts-with-23-boys-girls-ages-7-to-10/611331/40 "2012-02-01T04:04:34Z")
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