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    Former students speak of odd teacher behavior

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two former students of a Los Angeles teacher suspected of photographing children for sexual thrills say school officials were told about his odd behavior two decades ago.

    Marlene Trujillo (troo-HEE'-oh) was a fourth-grader in Mark Berndt's class in the early 1990s. She told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/yo4M8P) that he often moved his hands under his desk, near his lap at the front of the classroom.

    She says she and two other students spoke to a school counselor about the behavior and they were told "it's not very good to make up stories" and that it was their imagination.

    Trujillo says another classmate told her mother about Berndt's strange behavior, but her mother didn't take it seriously enough to report to school officials.

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    Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

     

    19 comments

    • Soy_el_Guapo  •  3 mths ago
      Congratulations parents, your kids were molested, and because you did nothing, they continued to be molested and others as well. Ahhhh, the days were priests, nuns, teachers, doctors, and day care workers could get away with anything.
    • Miss Kitty  •  Hampton, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      Parents need to start listening to their kids instead of ignoring them.....
    • W  •  Huntsville, Alabama  •  3 mths ago
      Mother....Oh honey, your imagining things, now go watch t.v. for 6 hrs while mommy goes to the bar!
    • me  •  3 mths ago
      Parents, listen to your children!
    • Circe  •  Fresno, California  •  3 mths ago
      If they had reported him then but didn't have enough to make a case out of it, maybe he'd be "rubber roomed" like that one SOB in New York- who is collecting thousands of dollars and not teaching any more. Creepy guy going after little girls....and he's STILL on the dole.
      Disgusting.
    • Douglas  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      I wonder how anyone can make an educated comment on this with so little info? Were the photos pornographic? Was he masturbating in class as his hands were under the desk?

      Truly not enough info here
      • Yahoo! 3 mths ago
        You've obviously not read the previous articles about this guy.
    • candlelightchaos  •  3 mths ago
      It's very sad that this has happened despite the claims the kids made. It is frightening to see how many more innocent people were victims due to this creep.
    • JJ  •  3 mths ago
      If true, these kind of psychos should be shot.
    • Tim  •  Wall, South Dakota  •  3 mths ago
      Probably I'm just being dense, but it isn't on purpose. What did photographing kids have to do with him having his hands near his lap under his desk? And how did having his hands under his desk get translated into molesting kids?
    • marcaman  •  Downers Grove, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      can the news go 1 week without a child molester ..
      • McDanel_1771 3 mths ago
        No, there are far too many for them to be out of the news any length of time. It's a sad word in which to be a child.
    • Shot Caller  •  3 mths ago
      Do these white pedophiles ever take a day off from their sick condition?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      I am so NOT surprise that he is a "WHITE MAN"!
      • JackF 3 mths ago
        Racism rears it's ugly head again.
      • joshua 3 mths ago
        Why because he had a job?
      • tom g 3 mths ago
        ...Me no "surprise" ither........LMFAO....
    • SisyphusSyzygy  •  Buffalo, New York  •  3 mths ago
      The article doesn't say, but I'd be interested in knowing what these "victims" were wearing. So often these young hotties will try to get an older man to make a fool of himself over them. I think they get off on the power rush. They do everything they can to make men want to lick their flat bellies and put hickeys on their inner thighs. The 3rd and 4th graders are the worst, believe me! Utter vixens
      • уαмιηєѕѕ мσηѕтєя 3 mths ago
        It doesn't matter what the younger students were wearing.He was the adult and knew better.The children didn#$%$ their parents fault for letting them go to school like that...
      • William 3 mths ago
        Third and fourth grade hotties who try to get older men to want to "lick their flat bellies and put hickeys on their inner thighs"? You are one sick dude, pal, and probably in the same web club as the teachers in LA and NYC.
      • UnderDoug 3 mths ago
        They were in fourth grade, so that makes them about 10 years old? You really think that ten year old girls think like that? You are sick.
    • nj  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      I wonder if this guy has grandchildren he's going to be wanting to see also.
    • The Crossing Guard  •  3 mths ago
      Wonder how those school counselors feel about this now?
    • Boppity  •  3 mths ago
      I hear he once was seen scratching his butt, too! The Horror!
    • John Smith  •  Buena Park, California  •  3 mths ago
      In the other article, it said the freak was into child bondage. Ropes and tape on children.

      Where do they find these crazy freaks?
    • RayDickYouLuss  •  3 mths ago
      His pic looks like a deer in the headlights.
    • SisyphusSyzygy  •  Buffalo, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Another deleted post! Up yours, Yahoo
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