Mark Berndt, a 61-year-old school teacher has been arrested and fired from Miramonte Elementary School he was employed at for thirty years. Berndt was at his home in Torrance when police decided to go forward and arrest him after seeing the evidence of his abuse to over 20 children.

The district attorney’s office said Berndt has been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10 between 2008 and 2010.

The photos themselves are rather graphic and included Berndt with his arm around the children or with his hand over their mouths. There are also photos that show the girls with a spoon being held by their mouths as if Berndt was going to have them ingest whatever it was. The suspicion was that it was semen, and this was verified after a spoon in his trash tested positive for semen and matched his DNA. Along with that, some of the children had large Madagascar-like cockroaches on their faces in these photos.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy had said that no students had ever come forward before about this abuse. He immediately took action and removed the teacher, once he heard of the situation.

The sheriff’s department said a search warrant served on Berndt’s home led to the discovery of more than 100 similar photographs depicting children.

This piece of shit doesn’t deserve to spend another second on this planet. What he did is so incredibly sick and he took advantage of his position as a teacher. These kids are supposed to be safe while at school, not fearful of the abuse that they may have to endure. Sadly, this man worked for a good 30 years before being caught and who knows how many children were really involved.

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