Mark Berndt played disgusting 'game' with youngsters: cops
(NEWSER) - A veteran Los Angeles third-grade teacher, telling his students they were playing a "tasting game," blindfolded them and spoon-fed them his semen, police say. Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested and charged with 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children after a photo lab worker alerted police to disturbing pictures of children that Berndt had sent in for processing, the Los Angeles Times reports. A spoon found in his classroom matched those in the pictures and had traces of semen on it. More»