Where's the Media Outrage? L.A. School Sex Abuse Shocker: 189 Abuse Claims at Just ONE School!
Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode, but the national media does not seem too interested - at all. On the heels of other local reports involving child sex abuse in L.A. schools, NBC4 in Los Angeles has reported:
"On the same day that attorneys for students at Miramonte Elementary School announced that four additional lawsuits have been filed against LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District] over alleged sexual abuse at the school, the district said it faces 189 claims resulting from the scandal ...
"The claims are on behalf of 126 students, with the remainder from their family members, [LAUSD general counsel David] Holmquist said."
189 claims?? 126 students? From just one school?
Is there any doubt that if there were 189 claims at a single Catholic parish that there would be screaming front-page headlines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Huffington Post? One can easily imagine the folks at the Times becoming hysterical and calling for the federalization of the Catholic Church.
Double standard? You bet.
[ Democratic backed teachers unions protect child abusers. ]
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Do a search for teachers union child abuse and you'll find lots of stories like the one below. Teachers unions are evil institutions that help prevent kids, especially poor kids, from getting decent educations and protect child abusers in their ranks. Koan has talked about once being a teachers union member .. he ought to hang his head in shame over that.
CALIFORNIA teachers union kills anti-pedophile law SB 1530 dies in committee
July 17, 2012 58 Comments
A July 16 City Journalarticle entitled “Perverting Justice” reported “Early this year, Los Angeles police arrested Mark Berndt, a longtime TEACHER at Miramonte Elementary School, on 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children between the ages of seven and ten. The sickening details of the crimes Berndt is charged with committing horrified the community and the state.
More stories about CALIFORNIA teachers accused of sexual misconduct with children have now surfaced. The Berndt case casts new light on the tortuous legal process that makes it nearly impossible for schools to rid themselves of even these depraved teachers. Perversely, the case also shows the extent to which teachers’ unions will go to protect their prerogatives….As a result of Berndt’s indictment, the Los Angeles Unified School District asked the state legislature to change existing law to speed up the process of removing such teachers.”
 Sen. Mark Leno
The legislation the LA school district asked for, Senate Bill 1530, was introduced in April by Democratic state senator Alex Padilla. The bill sailed through the state senate, passing with a 33-4 majority. The four “No” votes were all Democrats: openly homosexual senator Mark Leno of San Francisco; senator Ted Lieu, of the 28thDistrict, who earlier this year introduced SB 1172, which banned therapy to help same-sex attracted persons remove the unwanted feelings; Senator Rod Wright of the 25th District, whose sexual harassment case was settled in April, 2010 through a secret senate-approved payout of $120,000 in taxpayer money; and senator Leland Yee of San Francisco, a recipient of the Building a State of Equality Award from the pro same-sex-marriage group Equality CALIFORNIA.
 Sen. Ted Lieu
Following SB 1530’s passage in the senate, it went to the Assembly education committee. A majority vote was needed in the education committee for SB 1530 to go to a full vote on the Assembly floor. The committee consists of 11 Assemblymen, so six votes would be needed. All four Republicans and one Democrat voted in support. Of the six remaining Democrats on the committee, two, the open homosexual Tom Ammiano from San Francisco and Joan Buchanan from the East Bay (rated by Project Vote Smart as 100% Planned Parenthood, 100% NARAL, 100% Equality CALIFORNIA), voted no. The other 4 Democrats on the committee refused to vote at all. The result: SB 1530 was dead.
 Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan
The day after the June 27 vote to killing the measure, the Associated Press published an article entitled “Defeat of Calif. TEACHER Bill Shows Union Power.” Reporter Christina Hoag wrote: “Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa slammed it as ‘cynical political manipulation,’ Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy termed it shameful, but for the CALIFORNIA Teachers Association, it was a victory.
 Sen. Rod Wright
The defeat Wednesday of a proposed law that would have made it easier for school districts to fire teachers in cases of sexual and other egregious misconduct has shone a spotlight on the strong sway of the CALIFORNIA Teachers Association, widely considered the state’s most politically influential labor union with more than 325,000 members.
 Assemblyman Tom Ammiano
The AP included the “sickening details” that the City Journalarticle alluded to: “Prosecutors say Mark Berndt blindfolded students and fed them his SEMEN by spoon and smeared on cookies in what he told them was a ‘tasting game.’ He has pleaded not guilty. Police found hundreds of photos of pupils and said he’d been engaged in the activity for years. The case only came to light when a drugstore photo technician spotted the odd images and reported them to authorities.”
 Sen. Leland Yee
Berndt was removed from the classroom in 2011, as the L.A. Sheriff’s Office began its investigation. He appealed his firing. Rather than enter into the current “tortuous” (and expensive) teacher’s appeal process, the L.A. school district offered Berndt $40,000 to resign. He accepted.
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