Posted on 02/03/2012 1:24:00 PM PST by ColdOne
An attorney representing a student at Miramonte Elementary School said Friday children were pulled from after-school programs and other teachers' classes to take part in "tasting games" at the center of lewd conduct charges against fired teacher Mark Berndt.
In these games, children were photographed while blindfolded and asked to taste a liquid that police now believe to be the semen Berndt, who was arrested Monday.
Attorney Brian E. Claypool said his client was 9 when her photograph was taken by Berndt, although she was not his student.
FULL COVERAGE: Mark Berndt
Claypool said Berndt had two ways of getting children who weren't in his class to participate in his games -- by having them sent to his class during the school day or having them go to his class after school. "The potential pool of victims is beyond the classroom," Claypool said in a news conference outside the South L.A. campus where Berndt worked for three decades until he was removed last year when district officials learned of the allegations.
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What one might liken it to, however, would have to be almost as gross. Maybe one of the politer things is an ingredient in much “higher quality” imitation vanilla, i.e. a musky extract of dried anal glands of beavers. And that would be very obscure. (The aftertaste of having partaken of too much artificial vanilla ice cream using that stuff is very... peculiar, let me say.)
Being in Illinois, I can’t possibly grok what Illinois is gaining from Obama. Chicago must be like zombie sleep walker land.
That was my initial reaction. The photographs are a significant difference, though.
the McMartins didn’t take videos- this guy did
The spoon and cup that they found in his trash can had tested pos. for his DNA.
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