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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why on earth didn't they install security cameras in the basement and other areas in 2015?  That would have put Fernandez on notice.

Child molesters are opportunistic and look for the path of least resistance to what they want.  [/quote]

To install cameras in the basement would have been a great idea, but after the 2015 incident adults were not allowed to take kids to the basement to pick up material (Fernandez was not the only teacher who was going to the basement with students) [/quote]

Fernandez should have been fired with the locked door - regardless of what MPD could substantiate. There is no reasonable justification for taking students to the basement and locking the door. Cameras with notice would have only caused him to abuse children elsewhere. Hidden cameras would still have allowed children to be abused. Sending prayers of healing for the children directly and indirectly affected and for the entire LAMB community. I can’t imagine that there is any settlement or justice that will satisfy parents knowing that he was allowed to continue past those 2015 incidents. And to those who say he was “in” with the admin. Who knows? He got to the school in the spring of 2013 and there were concerns within his first year. Hard to believe he was part of the in-crowd so quickly. This might have been pure arrogance - thinking that this type of thing couldn’t happen at LAMB or couldn’t happen with someone hired by the admin. [/quote]

Not only that. Apparently one key fact being left out is that he was very popular. With parents, teachers, everyone (I have been told). They key thing to learn for anyone might be that such abusers can be charasmatic, meaning they are able to lie and charm their way out of situation. I have to believe that while astoundingly ignorant and reprehensible, the admins actually just plain believed him. And they weren’t the only ones. Clearly it’s important to look at this and create policies that would prevent such blindness.[/quote]

Just like the charismatic teacher at Oyster, even after the admission some people didn't want to believe it was true because he presented as such a trustworthy and wonderful teacher! Sad all around situation for those involved. [/quote]

The key difference between Oyster and LAMB is that the former Oyster teacher was arrested the same day the parents brought the matter to Oyster's attention (the school administrators called the police immediately).  They didn't give him a second chance to molest more children, like LAMB.  Further,  they didn't walk him to the edge of campus like Beauvoir and THEN call the police (thus giving him an opportunity to evade arrest for 5 years and possibly molest more children while on the run).  Oyster handled the situation the best way possible, and that's why the administrators are not/never were the targets of lawsuits.

In summary:  LAMB is no Oyster.[/quote]

Well to be fair, LAMB called MPD but MPD didn’t arrest him. [/quote]

Did you read the attached lawsuit?  Even though MPD didn't arrest him, the board gave LAMB's administration permission to fire him.  They chose not to fire him.  [/quote]

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