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News
December 6, 2012
LAUSD Rubber Rooms Crowd Up
Denials and confessions by those in teacher jail
News
November 1, 2012
Will Betsy Butler's Sex Pervert Vote Kill Her Political Career?
In Assembly District 50, underdog Richard Bloom sees daylight
Blogs
August 14, 2012
Miramonte Elementary Teachers Return for Strange First Day Back at School
How many elementary schoolers can say that four TV news vans and 16 psychiatric social workers showed up to their campus on the first day of the school? Welcome to the strange life of a Miramonte Elementary School student. After a horrifying sex scandal rocked the South L.A. campus last year -- lon ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2012
FBI Looking Into School Sex Abuse Allegations at Miramonte? Nope
One of the lawyers representing parents who are suing the L.A. public school district over the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal says the FBI should look into the situation. After all, moms and dads were kept in the dark regarding longtime allegations that teacher Mark Berndt was a mole ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2012
Miramonte Teaching Staff Not Fired Over Sex-Abuse Scandal, Despite Reports
Sunday and Monday headlines declared that the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A. has been fired following the sex-abuse scandal there earlier this year. Why? To quell a "culture of silence," the reports quoted L.A. Unified School District superintendent John Deasy as saying. ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Francisco Aguilar, San Diego Child Rapist, Found Hanging From Electronic Cable in Lancaster Jail; Cellmate Suspected
Francisco Aguilar, a 36-year-old child rapist serving a life sentence for the "aggravated sexual assault" he committed in San Diego County many years ago, was found blue-faced in his prison cell early Tuesday morning. It looks like the prison-justice fairies, who have been especially active over th ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
Jorge Dominguez, Gratts School Teacher's Aide, Arrested in Sex Abuse Investigation
Another L.A. public schools employee has been accused of "horrifying and sickening" acts with children, according to the superintendent. Jorge Dominguez was arrested this morning, and district officials said they were in the process of firing him this afternoon. That contrasts with the situation th ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
LAUSD Has Dug Up 500 Cases of Unreported Teacher Misconduct Since Miramonte Scandal
Back in February, after the world found out what Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt had allegedly been feeding his blindfolded third-graders (hint: his semen), the Los Angeles Unified School District erupted in scandalous accusations against other teachers. Pervy, unfit educators had a ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Ted Nishihara is Latest School Sex Scandal Suspect: Lewd Act Alleged in La Mirada
January's Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal has unleashed a torrent of accusations against area teachers. The latest involves Ted Nishihara, a substitute educator at Los Coyotes Middle School in La Mirada. The 29-year-old was arrested yesterday after a student said he touched her inappr ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
State Republican Leaders Get in Bed With ... Villaraigosa (!?) in Bid For Post-Miramonte Teacher Reform
Strange bedfellows have arisen from the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal in which two teachers face charges for lewd conduct and a slew of allegations have hit educators at other area campuses. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once vowed to take over the L.A. school district and wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Blindfolding Kids at L.A. Unified Schools Banned
The L.A. Unified School District has reacted slowly and sometimes defensively to the horrific Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal. One of the stranger outcomes will be that fourth graders will no longer be blindfolded for an exercise designed to test and strengthen kids senses. Of course ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Miramonte Scandal Fallout Prompts L.A. School District to Report Alleged Pervs to State, as It Should Have Done From Day 1
So L.A. Unified School District has had a few alleged bad apples that only it and, in some cases, police knew about. Despite what we've been told about federal Title 9 guidelines requiring parents and students to be notified when someone at their campus is accused of sexual improprieties with stude ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
George Hernandez's Sex Abuse Allegations Didn't Stop Him From Teaching: L.A. Unified Should Have Reported Him, Experts Say
In the wake of the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal the Los Angeles Times has unearthed yet another case of an L.A. school district staffer accused of lewd acts who continued to work around children nonetheless. The crux of the story: George Hernandez, a career substitute teacher, was ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Villaraigosa's Washington Aspirations Noted by New York Times
If you're a lame-duck mayor who has pretty much accomplished only disappointment in Los Angeles, we wouldn't blame you for wanting out. And it's clear to just about anyone within earshot of Antonio Villaraigosa that he's been angling for a job in President Obama's cabinet. As the newly appointed ch ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
Miramonte Sex Abuse Scandal Might Have Inspired Many New Allegations, Including an Alleged Rape, at L.A. Schools
If you think that the lid was blown off of sex abuse allegations against L.A. school district staffers in these first months of 2012, you're right. But now we have to ask if the scandal at Miramonte Elementary School has inspired victims to come forward, or if it has simply opened a door for people ... More >>
News
February 16, 2012
Mark Berndt's $40,000 Payoff
Arrested as sex pervert, former LAUSD teacher settles into retirement
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Miramonte Kids to Blame For Horrendous Sex Abuse Scandal at Elementary School, Says Rosewood Principal Linda Crowder
You could point the finger at a hot mess of targets in the incredible sex-abuse scandal that has rocked Miramonte Elementary School: A school district that failed to let parents know an alleged molester on the loose for nearly a year. A teachers' union that puts its people over your kids (suspect M ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Alain Salas, Fremont High School Girls' Volleyball Coach, Arrested by FBI for Alleged Sex Crime
Updated at the bottom with a few more details from the FBI and a possible Facebook connection to the case. First posted at 6:40 a.m. It seemed like a week or so could go by without another sex abuse arrest of an L.A. Unified School District employee. Nope. KTLA News this morning reports that a Fr ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Paul Chapel, Ex-Teacher at Telfair Elementary, Is Latest Alleged Molester That LAUSD Kept Under Wraps
Seriously, what is with all these old men (allegedly) touching kids at L.A.'s low-income schools? The October 8 arrest of a former third-grade teacher at Telfair Elementary -- Paul William Chapel, 50 -- is the latest big reveal in the media hunt for more LAUSD child molesters, after Miramonte Eleme ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Miramonte's Berndt Got $80,000 From L.A. School Board to Quietly Walk Away Despite Alleged Sex-Abuse Atrocities
KPCCA photo of Berndt released by attorneys suing the district.If it weren't for his eventual arrest, we might have never found out about the atrocities alleged to have happened in Mark Berndt's Miramonte Elementary School class. That's because the L.A. Unified School District's elected boar ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Miramonte Lawsuit Claims a Victim Was Transferred From Class of One Alleged Molester to That of Another After Dad Complained
Berndt.One of two lawsuits filed in the wake of the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal alleges one girl was victimized by suspect Mark Berndt and then transferred to the classroom of Martin Springer, who then touched her inappropriately. In fact, according to the suit, the school' ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Areceli Luisjuan, Former Miramonte Aide: Did She Write 'Love Letters' to 11-Year-Old, or Has Media Witch Hunt Gone Too Far?
Every L.A. media outlet from KNX news radio to HuffPost has picked up the Los Angeles Times' latest Miramonte Elementary reveal this morning, in which one mother claims that a former teacher's aide at the beleaguered campus wrote numerous "love letters" to her 11-year-old son. There are certainly s ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Ricardo Guevara: Meet Miramonte's Original Molester
You can add a third man to the string of accused sex criminals at embattled Miramonte Elementary School in Florence-Firestone. Actually, he's not accused. He's convicted. The story of Ricardo Guevara is getting renewed attention this week after the Los Angeles Times and Univision 34 broke his stor ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Miramonte Parents to Protest Outside Scandal-Plagued School This Morning
LAUSDParents of kids at Miramonte Elementary School in Florence-Firestone have had enough. After last week's revelations that not one but two teachers are alleged to have molested students in-class, and after at one report that a girl might have been assaulted by both suspects, there's actio ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Paul Adame, Germain Elementary School Janitor, Arrested on Suspicion of Lewd Acts on Child: LAPD Seeking More Possible Victims
Google MapsGermain Elementary.As if the L.A. school district needed one more scumbag touching children, the LAPD today announced the arrest of an elementary school janitor for alleged lewd acts on a child. The confluence of employees accused of sex crimes at the system (two teachers at Miram ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Martin Bernard Springer: Second Teacher at Miramonte Elementary School Arrested in Sex Crime Scandal
Updated at the bottom with the suspect's ID, more info from the sheriff's department. First posted at 11:36 a.m. Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A. is turning into a big shop of horrors. Following this week's arrest of former teacher Mark Berndt, charged with committing lewd acts on ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
Police Say Alleged Pervert Teacher Mark Berndt Fondled Girl 18 Years Ago, LAUSD Let Him Continue Teaching
New information is coming out about the alleged 'sex game' teacher, and it's not looking good for LAUSD, a district that has continually failed to fire its screwed-up teachers. Police say Mark Berndt, the former Miramonte Elementary School teacher who allegedly bound and gagged students and spoon-f ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Mark Berndt, L.A. Teacher Accused of Horrific Sex Crimes, Still Being Paid More Than $3,800 a Month -- Report
Mark Berndt, the 63-year-old former teacher accused of horrific crimes against children at a South Los Angeles elementary school, is actually enjoying a $3,800-a-month-plus pension that you couldn't take away from him even if he was put away for life. It's true. The revelation came last night afte ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Mark Berndt, Miramonte Elementary School Teacher, Reportedly Took Photos of Kids Bound, Gagged, Crawling With Cockroaches in Sick 'Sex Game'
Update: "'Sex Game' Teacher Mark Berndt Went Free for Over a Year: How Did LAUSD, L.A. Sheriff Let This Happen?" Updated at the bottom: DNA tests show that Berndt spoon-fed the students his own semen. A longtime South L.A. elementary school teacher was fired about one year ago, in January 2011, wh ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Kirk Spiegel, Second-Grade Teacher at LAUSD's Pinewood Elementary, Commits Suicide off 210 Freeway Overpass
FacebookSecond-grade LAUSD teacher Kirk SpiegelUpdated throughout. Early this morning around 2 a.m., 49-year-old Kirk Spiegel -- a Los Angeles Unified School District employee, according to LAUSD -- jumped to his death off the 210 freeway overpass in La Canada Flintridge. "He was a second-g ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Did Rigoberto Ruelas, Missing Educator Found Dead, Commit Suicide Over L.A. Times' Controversial Teacher Ratings? Union Tells Times To Take Down The Evaluations
TV news reports over the weekend painted Rigoberto Ruelas as a dedicated elementary school teacher whose students celebrated his impact even after they had moved up the public-school ladder. The 39-year-old hiker from South Gate went missing last week after he phoned in for a substitute to t ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Rigoberto Ruelas Suicide At LAUSD: L.A. Media's Rampant Speculation Blaming L.A. Times Is Based On One South Gate Cop's Psychological Musings
The apparent suicide of Rigoberto Ruelas, an LAUSD teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in South Gate, has led to rampant speculation by Los Angeles TV and radio stations that Ruelas couldn't bear to live following an L.A. Times series that published the names and scores of 6,000 teachers -- an ... More >>

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