U
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
...23 counts of lewd acts with a child. Mark Berndt, 61, allegedly spoon-fed his semen to blindfolded students and also took pictures of the acts. He has resigned from the district.
Later last week, sheriff's deputies arrested his colleague, Martin Bernard Springer, 49, on suspicion of fondling two 7-year-olds in his class within the last three years.
another hysterical witchhunt.Damn straight. Hopefully when he goes to jail they'll fuck up and release him into the general population.
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case of the 1980s. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in California, were charged with numerous acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983. Arrests and the pretrial investigation ran from 1984 to 1987, and the trial ran from 1987 to 1990. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990. When the trial ended in 1990 it had been the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history.[1] The case was part of day care sex abuse hysteria, a moral panic over satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s.
See also
False allegation of child sexual abuse
False memories
Moral panic
Repressed memory
Salem witch trials
Satanic ritual abuse
Witch hunt
Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome
Do you have any children?
Sure the hunt is over.What witch hunt? Read the article, the firing was a temporary political move. The hunt is over.
Sure the hunt is over.They applied the "let God sort them out" rule.
"The displaced staff will continue to be paid and also will receive counseling for a series of events that also traumatized the Miramonte staff, officials said."
It appears they will be well compensated while kicking back at home.
They will be paid to sit at home, and will receive counseling for the trauma of having their environment invaded by law and order.
If they ever go to the joint they're as good as dead. Convicts have issues with child molesters.
That's why they kept me in solitary, Miles.
Gonna be a LOT of wrongful dismissal suits, methinks.
Like, what the fuck is going on in the schools:
Schools chief announces entire Miramonte staff to be replaced
Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy told parents Monday evening that the district is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in the wake of the arrests last week of two teachers on lewd conduct charges.
The unprecedented move is intended to build confidence among the many families who have lost faith in their neighborhood elementary school. More than a quarter of students did not show up for classes Monday.
Officials stressed that no one else on the Miramonte staff is under suspicion of wrongdoing but that the chain of events has placed a cloud over the campus that can be lifted only with a drastic response.
One of the largest elementary schools in the nation, Miramonte has about 1,500 students and a teaching and administrative staff of about 150.
The displacement could be temporary: Many, maybe all, of the current staff will be returned to the school eventually, officials said. In the interim, their places will be filled by qualified teachers and other workers already on a placement or rehiring list. There are plenty of available candidates: Over the last several years, thousands of instructors and other non-teaching staff were laid off because of budget cuts; the vast majority are considered fully qualified employees who lost work simply because they lacked sufficient seniority.
The displaced staff will continue to be paid and also will receive counseling for a series of events that also traumatized the Miramonte staff, officials said.
The restaffing is the latest development at Miramonte, which is south of downtown in unincorporated Florence-Firestone. A week ago, prosecutors charged a longtime teacher with 23 counts of lewd acts with a child. Mark Berndt, 61, allegedly spoon-fed his semen to blindfolded students and also took pictures of the acts. He has resigned from the district.
Later last week, sheriff's deputies arrested his colleague, Martin Bernard Springer, 49, on suspicion of fondling two 7-year-olds in his class within the last three years.
Teachers union officials said in a statement that they have met with instructors at the school.
"We support a thorough, vigorous and fair investigation of all allegations. It’s everyone’s responsibility to ensure that any and all allegations are thoughtfully and carefully investigated," the statement said.
Parents packed the meeting Monday evening at a nearby high school. The district had closed the meeting to the media even though parents demanded that reporters and cameras be allowed in. The district refused
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/entire-miramonte-elementary-staff-to-be-replaced.html
Yep. Covered that. It's called having a union. You should be furious about this instead of pointing to it as something remotely positive. And I think the right call was made to just eliminate the entire staff because we have two hard suspects a third heavily suspected and enough knowledge of reality to know that the principle is likely in on it as are a few more people. There is no easy way to sort the good from the bad so you just drop the nuke and call it a day. It's like you can't even agree with me when I agree with you. You should probably get that checked.