I teachers sex abuse in I school costs 139 million settlement. LA Times

prologos

the high cost of institutional negligence in protecting children: 139 000 000.- for one offender.

google LA Times Miramonte school --.

talesin

Hers's a link to the story .... assuming you are on a tablet or some device that makes it difficult to embed. :))

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-1122-miramonte-settlement-20141122-story.html#page=1

haha, I hope this works ... xx

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talesin

and a brief quote from the article which is very telling; ie, covering up the abuse.

The size of the settlement reflects not only the harm students and their parents say was inflicted by former third-grade teacher Mark Berndt, but also the school district's failure to take action on misconduct complaints involving Berndt years earlier.

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prologos

thank you talesin and it was not teachers, but teacher's.

talesin

Hi, pro! I don't understand the teachers vs teacher's? It doesn't appear in my post, and I directly copied the paragraph from the article.

lol, I'm not sure what you mean? :D

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joe134cd

89 victims since 1983. You got to wonder how he got away with it.

cliff

Just the title line, Talesin. It implies more than one teacher!

prologos

The school administration changed the whole teacher staff in one school, to root out any complicity. Thinking mostly about the victims, also the financial damage, and these were paid professionals, not amateur volonteers, as are wt appointees. Vigillance is required, sometimes vigilantes.

Cliff, thank you for explaining the typo, my correction habits date back from the 1930s, and it does noy work easily on the tile line.

flipper

One can only hope that the high cost of protecting MANY child molesters and neglecting children's rights as human beings will cost the WT Society just as much or more

flipper

Several quotes bear mentioning and are quite telling when you compare this with the outlook of the WT Society towards child abuse. The attorney for the plaintiffs stated that, " The settlement shows a LEVEL OF CULPABIBLITY AND CONTRITION by the district that is appropriate, and the hope for all of us is that it will lead to reforms. " Perhaps the WT Society leaders need to follow the example of the L.A. School District and start showing some " level of culpability and contrition " regarding their own child sexual abuse crises. Fat chance of that happening.

Another quote in the article states, " This sends a clear message that this better NEVER happen again ", continuing, " as large as the settlement is, it could prove nearly a down payment if the district doesn't BETTER POLICE FUTURE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. " Ditto to the WT Society. Perhaps the WT Society won't better police their child abuse until these child abuse settlements run into the hundreds of millions of $$$$ .

And there are the hero's to consider in how this child molester got caught. Quote from the mewspaper, " In the fall of 2010 , a drug store photo technician processed a photo that showed a child blindfolded and gagged with clear tape. Other photos showed a spoon filled with milky liquid which was also seen in and around the children's mouths. " If not for the courageous action of this photo technician going to the police- this child molester may have kept on molesting even more than 80 something children and kept his teacher's position to continue his crimes. So once again we see that the level of hiding these crimes within the walls of WT kingdom halls of comgregations of Jehovah's Witnesses with NOBODY speaking out - allows felony child molesters to continue abusing children year after year with no accountability or arrests of the offenders which is EXTREMELY dangerous as each molester many times rapes anywhere from 10 to up to 100 children in some cases even more. It's high time to spread the news about WT Society child abuse. Tell everybody you know

I teachers sex abuse in I school costs 139 million settlement. LA Times

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