A Story and A Lesson
To Parents and Schools
The recent incidents at Morimonte School of Los Angeles Unified School District, CA USA
The Story
On the sixth of February 2012 CNN reported that at Morimonte Elementary School - LA, two teachers were arrested last week for lewd acts involving pupils. One of them, Berndt, had been investigated as early as 1994 for child sexual abuse. The Huff Post internet newspaper on Feb 7th 2012, included an associated press released video clip there were claims against Berndt as long ago as 1984. A recent investigation with him began more than a year ago but he was not removed from class work till January 2011. Police sources said that some of the kids who were abused this time were not his students, for “during the lunch breaks or recess, he’d go out to the playground and entice them back to the classroom”. Police recommended the children be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
