Guilty! Mark Berndt, Florence, California (arrested Jan 2012)

I added the enumerations to the quotes from the L.A. Times article. It appears that the school district missed the boat at least four times starting 31 years ago.

L.A. Unified alerted to possible sexual misconduct by Berndt in 1983

(1) In 1983, a South Los Angeles elementary school principal received a call about one of his teachers, a 32-year-old just a few years on the job. On a student field trip to a museum, Mark Berndt had dropped his pants, a parent complained ... The May 1983 memo by the principal and Berndt's response show that a supervisor was alerted to possible sexual misconduct by Berndt a decade earlier than the previously disclosed allegations. Other newly released documents show that students, parents and other teachers were alarmed by Berndt's conduct over the decades he spent working at Miramonte.

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(2) In the early 1990s, his successor received complaints about the teacher when several fourth-grade girls went to the principal alleging that Berndt was regularly masturbating in class, the former students recalled in testimony. The principal dismissed the claims and accused them of lying, the former students recounted. "I don't think they took us seriously," one said.

(3) About the same time, a young teacher was observing the class when Berndt, clad in loose-fitting shorts, sat in a way that exposed his genitals, the teacher later recalled in a deposition. She said the students turned back at her and met her eye, as if to make sure she knew of their discomfort. She marched into the office of yet another principal to complain, the teacher recalled. But the principal wasn't surprised.

"I know, baby. I've had several complaints from parents, too, but there's nothing we can do about it," the teacher recalled the principal saying. That principal denied ever receiving such a report, calling the teacher a liar. She also denied knowing about any past complaints about Berndt's behavior, saying that she had never seen the 1983 memo.

(4) In 1994, a student reported that Berndt, while grabbing some papers, reached past her desk and touched her inappropriately. That incident was reported to the police but dropped after investigators concluded there was insufficient evidence.​

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