LA Unified to pay $30 million to victims of teacher Mark Berndt, a convicted serial child molester, bringing payouts to $200 million.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Attorneys representing two additional victims of a former Miramonte Elementary School teacher convicted of sexually abusing children announced Tuesday that a collective $3.55 ...

December 2010: Investigation begins into Florence school teacher Mark Berndt after authorities find dozens of questionable photographs of children, police say. February 2011: LAUSD suspends Berndt ...

A settlement worth nearly $140 million was announced Friday between LAUSD and the families of 82 victims of former longtime Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who fed semen-laced cookies ...

Described by sobbing mothers as a “perverse animal” and a “monster” who had destroyed their children’s innocence, former Miramonte Elementary teacher Mark Berndt pleaded no contest Friday to molesting ...

Former Miramonte teacher Mark Berndt was arrested and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children ages 6 to 10. The investigation began after Berndt, a teacher at the school for 30 years, tried to ...

MARTINEZ — Miramonte coach Ace Wright waved her hands up and down, hyping the crowd, imploring them to scream and cheer. The game was all but over, her Matadors up 11 with 34 seconds remaining. But ...