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> Walter Babst. Teacher/pedophile caught on NBC's Dateline
> Walter Edward Babst is an Algebra teacher at Bonita High School here in
> La Verne California. The same high school that my oldest daughter will
> attend next year. When Mr. Babst was confronted by NBC's Dateline he
> said "I am a sick son of a bitch. Take me to jail and execute me."
> Babst taught school for another week before he was suspended without
> pay. I want to know how it is that this fucking creep is teaching 14 to
> 18 year old kids in my school district. I have every intention of
> asking our over paid district board members how this happened and
> holding the board and Mr. Babst accountable. I want ALL of the teachers
> in the Bonita Unified school district to turn over their computers for
> a full investigation.
>
> District upset at notification delay
> By Ruby Gonzales Staff Writer
>
> LA VERNE - Bonita Unified School District officials are angry that
> Riverside deputies took almost a week to tell them a Bonita High School
> math teacher was arrested this month during an Internet sex sting
> targeting suspected pedophiles.
> State law says police must notify school officials immediately when a
> teacher is arrested for a sex offense. While the district was left in
> the dark, 43-year-old Walter Edward Babst of Corona continued to teach
> classes. And officials said it was Babst's lawyer who told the
> district before the Riverside County Sheriff's Department did. Babst
> was one of 50 men arrested by deputies during a three-day sting last
> week which the Sheriff's Department said will be aired on NBC's
> "Dateline" Feb. 3. He was booked Jan. 7 on suspicion of attempted
> lascivious act with a child under 14, attempted oral copulation and
> attempt to send harmful matter with the intent to seduce a minor.
>
> Babst posted bail of $25,000 and was released the same day. It wasn't
> until Tuesday afternoon that an investigator from the Riverside County
> Sheriff's Department's Jurupa Valley Station called the district.
> "We were shocked, stunned and totally upset that we were not notified
> in a timely manner," said board member Ed Jones. "I was livid."
> He said the board held an emergency meeting Wednesday night and placed
> Babst on unpaid administrative leave.
>
> Superintendent Robert Otto said the Sheriff's Department should have
> contacted the district sooner. "We're not pleased we didn't hear
> about it sooner," Otto said. "He taught last week, all of last
> week, because the district had no idea. We found out late Friday
> afternoon." Babst wasn't in school this week.
>
> His lawyer told school officials about his arrest Jan. 13 and it was
> decided that the teacher wouldn't be in school Tuesday, according to
> Otto. Monday was a school holiday. Jones said they also found out via
> calls from people in the community who saw a "Dateline" teaser
> about the sting. Babst and his lawyer from the teacher's union
> couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
>
> He has been working at Bonita High School since 1999, Otto said. All
> the parents of about 160 students in Babst's classes are being
> notified of the change in teachers. Otto said the principal met with
> the classes and told them what had transpired. Dan Harden, president of
> the Bonita Unified Teachers Association, said the association has no
> comment. Police are required by law to immediately notify a
> superintendent by telephone whenever a teacher is arrested for a sex
> offense and send a written notice to the Commission on Teacher
> Credentialing and to the superintendent of schools in the county.
>
> When they receive the notice, the county superintendent and the
> commission are supposed to tell the school board. "We notified the
> district six days after his arrest. That also included a written
> notification to the district and also a written notification to the
> Commission on Teacher Credentialing," said Sgt. Earl Quinata,
> spokesman for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. He said the
> written notices were mailed this week. Quinata could not account for
> the delay in telling Bonita Unified. "I can't speculate on why.
> We're going to look into the delay," he said.
>
> The sting was conducted Jan. 6 to 8 by investigators with the
> department's Jurupa Valley Station. Detectives, in conjunction with
> Pervertedjustice.com, used fictitious Internet profiles of 12- and
> 13-year-old boys and girls to chat with the suspects on the Internet.
> The men were arrested when they showed up at a house in Mira Loma. They
> thought they were meeting the children. Forty-nine of the suspects -
> including former La Verne police officer and current Homeland Security
> agent Michael Burks - were arrested on felony charges of attempted lewd
> acts with a child under 14
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