""Fourteen years later, victims are still coming forward, and that is remarkable. The red flags were obvious here, and we are seeing more cases where the reports are ignored.""
""The lawsuits that were settled allege Miramonte administrators and LAUSD officials ignored multiple complaints by parents, students and teachers regarding Berndt dating to the early 1980s.""
The Los Angeles Unified School District has settled with 19 additional victims of Mark Berndt, totaling $30.5 million. This brings the total compensation related to Berndt's crimes to over $200 million. Berndt, a former teacher, abused students from 1988 to 2011, with allegations including sexual harassment and feeding children cookies containing his bodily fluids. Despite his arrest in 2012 and a 25-year prison sentence, more victims continue to come forward, highlighting systemic failures in addressing complaints against him.
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