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Sep. 20, 2024

LA school district sued over elementary school teacher's years of molestation

Slater Slater Schulman LLP said it represents more than 100 former students of the teacher, who is now imprisoned.

A civil lawsuit was filed against a Los Angeles Unified School teacher who is now in prison for molesting dozens of elementary children between 1990 and 2011.

"The abuse that transpired at Miramonte Elementary over the course of Mark Berndt's reign of terror is genuinely hard to fathom," plaintiffs' attorney Adam Slater stated. "Because of school administrators' negligence, Berndt was allowed to sexually abuse and prey on generations of unsuspecting chil...

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