Calif. teacher resigns after leaving family for student

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPzIFzORTdM

the miramonte thing is a completely separate thing but from what I've seen about most of the other cases they're in line w/ this thread

The overwhelming media coverage after the arrest of Miramonte teacher Mark Berndt for allegedly spoon-feeding his semen to blindfolded children.

this scenario seems really improbable to me, like McMartin preschool/"Satanic Panic" level improbable but I dunno maybe they have him on tape or something

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xpost re repeat offenders I only knew by hearsay, and I'm not entirely sure of how far the 'making out' progressed' etc. but still YUK

that isn't even close to the creepiest Dennis Wilson song, unfortunately

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The overwhelming media coverage after the arrest of Miramonte teacher Mark Berndt for allegedly spoon-feeding his semen to blindfolded children.

this scenario seems really improbable to me, like McMartin preschool/"Satanic Panic" level improbable but I dunno maybe they have him on tape or something

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― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, March 1, 2012 3:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you don't know abt this case, then what is crazier is that there was another teacher caught in the school for similar behavior a week or two after, and the cops were trying to determine if the two talked or knew each other or what, it's just completely insane

yeah that doesn't make it sound any more probable to me tbh

Los Angeles Police Capt. Fabian E. Lizarraga, who oversees child sex crime investigations, said the department has seen an increase in allegations of "child annoyance" more than of more serious sexual misconduct.

"These reports say things like a teacher likes to rub my shoulders and sometimes their hands drift or he hugs me too long," he said.

uhhhh, wtf?!? "sometimes their hands drift" = mere "child annoyance"? thank you for taking this shit seriously, captain guy in charge.

they found spoons or w/e iirc I have to read the articles again but I kind of don't want to at all and prob won't, also this is prob not the thread for this particular case

yeah that doesn't make it sound any more probable to me tbh

― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, March 1, 2012 3:41 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

dunno about the second teacher, but the first guy did photograph his activities, yes. that's how he pitched this kind of stuff to the kids, iirc: as "arty"/weird photo shoots.

uh they caught the guy because he was photographing the kids like that and they got the tipoff from the tech who was developing the photos

haha okay wow that's pretty detailed evidence. man.

can we plz talk about this crazy thing some more and not go back to the other kinda-tbh-boring conversation? this is much more riveting imho

the elaborate scheming required to even pull off such a scenario is completely baffling.

also, the fact that he was into this, and the police haven't also found his secret chamber of dead bodies, is totally baffling. surely this is uniquely serial killer behavior?

i've totally been waiting to hear more about that case--it is completely nuts

surely this is uniquely serial killer behavior?

I don't see the connection

yeah i mean it's totally horrifying and disgusting and awful, but why would it be uniquely serial killer behavior?

i was applying a little hyperbole to what i see as bizarrely aberrative behavior

ok fair enough

its just so awful enough on its own, you know?

lol, I wasn't trying to minimize its awfulness. if anything, i was accenting it. like a person who would do such a thing would be similar to a serial killer: possessing of a psychology totally foreign to what i identify as healthy

so so awful

well yeah I kinda assume he has some sort of porn den and a refrigerator filled with jars and uh I dunno photo albums or something

also a chest with a gimp in it

i like you guys so i'm posting this as a link and not just posting the img of him dressed in tights and mickey mouse ears: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104509/Pictured-Mark-Berndt-teacher-photographed-students-bondage-positions-semen-laced-cookies-cockroaches-faces-pleads-guilty.html

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okay that dude TOTALLY has a pedo porn basement yeesh

god that picture why did i even bother

I'll just call it right now: that guy is going to be murdered in prison

Seems more like a really, really displaced fetish than a full on serial killer behaviour. And some kind of pathological fascination with discomfort. And there's something so pathetically awkward about his scenarios. He def reads as a suuuuuper-sexually dysfunctional dude.

eh they'll put him in "high risk" solitary w/ suicide watch

i remember a story from a few years back about a pediatrician who had a secret basement where he would torture/rape/film kids. in the u.s., i think. i never heard anything more about it, but it sounded like the most horrifying thing on earth. he did this during check-ups and stuff. i hate even remembering it.

you know, we watched the first swedish installment of the butterfly girl movies and i don't even want to watch the other two now. my serial killer movie days are kinda over i think. makes me too freaked out. mindless senseless action violence i can take. i don't want to know any more about the minds of deranged people.

I have periods of time where I'll kinda geek out on true crime books for a while, but I usually have to decompress for like, months afterwards because that world is so soul-deadening

BTW his lawyer has already accused LAPD of conspiring to make that happen by telling other prisoners what he's accused of

banaka owns

that is not possible, as we do not believe in property

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okay, this is that guy. i just had to check. don't read this if you can't take stuff like this:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/delaware-pediatrician-earl-bradley-indicted-103-counts-sexual/story?id=9921990

kinda wondering about a kickstarter fund to pay someone to murder him in prison.

and that's just one guy...11 years of torture...ugh.

oh jesus christ that is horrific

i didn't know this:

"Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of American Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden, announced in a January 2010 speech that he would not seek election to his father’s former seat in the United States Senate because he felt it was more important to fully pursue Bradley’s prosecution."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bradley

first accusation against him was in 1994. then several other complaints over a period of years. finally arrested in 2009.

I still find it deeply unfathomable that there are human beings out there that actively do things like this. It... I just cant process it.

and just... this fucking piece of shit...like there's families that are finding out that their kid was abused, and going through all those horrible cycles of blaming themselves for not doing more and... ugh I just get so angry thinking of all the families that are just so completely decimiated by this, and all those kids...

Last year, Jordan Powers was just another student from Mr. Hooker's class. Now she's his live-in girlfriend.

James Hooker -- the 41-year-old married father who left his wife and kids for his 18-year-old-student -- might be the worst teacher ever. Last week, he resigned from his job at Enochs High School in Modesto, California over the scandal that's shaken up a community and pit one mom on a crusade to save her daughter from a man she calls a "master manipulator."

Jordan met her teacher as a freshman, but both maintain nothing physical happened until she turned 18 this past September. Hooker claims he saw Powers as "just a student" and had no romantic feelings toward her at first, but when her most recent birthday came around, things changed.

They changed so much, in fact, that Hooker, left his wife and three kids (one of them a 17-year-old Enochs high school student as well) so that he could move in with Jordan.

If this all sounds suspicious to you, imagine how Tammie Powers, Jordan's mom, feels. She's launched an official police investigation to find out if Hooker's relationship with her daughter began before Jordan was of legal age. Tammie is convinced it did, citing a photo of her daughter on Hooker's lap and text messages, emails and phone records exchanged between the couple that predate her daughter's 18th birthday.

"That's pursuit, in my opinion, with some type of intent," she told ABC News 10 in California.

Hooker denies Tammie's claims and is confident the investigation will turn up nothing. He blames the "stigma of the teacher-student relationship" for the public backlash. But Hooker's former boss, Modesto City Schools Supt. Pam Able, doesn't agree.

Even if their relationship doesn't break any laws, Able says she "considers student-teacher dating relationships to be not only unprofessional, but immoral." She also added in an email to the Modesto Bee, that Hooker's relationship has become a "source of great concern for staff, students and parents."

It must be particularly hard for Hooker's 17 year old daughter, now that her father has left to be with a fellow classmate and become a notorious figure throughout the school.

Still, Hooker claims he has no regrets. In an interview with Good Morning America, he shut down Tammie's accusations as a "pack of lies" and said of his new love, "we really do want to have a future together."

Jordan, a quiet, fragile-seeming young woman, who looks closer to 15 than 18 years in age, gazed up at her former teacher, a man that looks every bit his 41 years, and said, "He's more than just a lover."

Jordan has now stopped going to classes and is finishing out her senior year by doing an independent study. She has limited contact with her mom, now that she's living with her teacher, mom's worst nightmare.

Desperate for her child, Tammie has turned her own Facebook page into a "most wanted" profile for Hooker. She's plastered his photo all over her wall warning neighbors about the man she calls an "arrogant pig". She's also made her wallpaper a photo of a prison cell, sending a message to Hooker should he dare visit her site.

Since the story has been picked up by national press, she's been flooded with messages of support from strangers. Tonight, she'll be taking her crusade against Hooker to Nancy Grace. "Nancy's always been a victims advocate and fights for justice," Tammie wrote on Facebook. "That's the goal here, justice."

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NANCY GRACE

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well this guy's going to have to go into hiding now that nancy grace is on the case