bobandcarole wrote:
> bobandcarole wrote:
> > 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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