Mark Berndt, Former Elementary School Teacher, Arrested For Making Bondage Photos Of Children

This is so sad. How did this go on for so long without anyone knowing anything? We have to do a better job of educating our children about when it is ok to tell on an adult. I can only imagine how damaged these kids must be. I pray for their healing.

Detectives say the elementary school teacher told the children it was a game. Once inside his third-grade classroom, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces.

And then, Mark Berndt photographed them, creating hundreds of images that would eventually lead to his arrest.

On Tuesday, Berndt, 61, was sitting in jail on charges that he committed lewd acts on 23 boys and girls, ages 6 to 10, between 2008 and 2010. None of them complained about Berndt's behavior, authorities said.

Police and school officials only learned of it when a film processor found Berndt's photos more than a year ago. Since the discovery, the school district fired Berndt and police put him under surveillance.

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