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Lawyer: Teacher brought kids from other classes for 'tasting games'
L.A. times.com ^ | 2/3/12 | Alan Zarembo and Howard Blume

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: education; lausd; losangeles; miramonte; publicschools; unions
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To: momtothree

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.)


41 posted on 02/03/2012 3:07:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: ColdOne


After a couple weeks of pain, pray for his eternal salvation, then end the guy's earthly life.
42 posted on 02/03/2012 3:16:59 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Sequoyah101

Being in Illinois, I can’t possibly grok what Illinois is gaining from Obama. Chicago must be like zombie sleep walker land.


43 posted on 02/03/2012 3:36:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: erkelly
. I am thinking McMartin preschool.

That was my initial reaction. The photographs are a significant difference, though.

44 posted on 02/03/2012 3:56:38 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: erkelly

the McMartins didn’t take videos- this guy did


45 posted on 02/03/2012 5:22:02 PM PST by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common- Voltaire)
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To: Ramius

The spoon and cup that they found in his trash can had tested pos. for his DNA.


46 posted on 02/04/2012 4:49:17 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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