Just Sickening

I hate the public school system. This story is the perfect illustration of why...

BERWYN, Ill. - When a band teacher was arrested here and charged with sexually abusing 16 students, jaws dropped at the allegations: Police said the teacher had tied young girls to chairs with duct tape and rope and then re-enacted sexual bondage scenes from his porn collection.

OK, that’s sick and evil. But there’s more.

Investigators now say the school district in this blue-collar Chicago suburb had received complaints about the teacher years earlier and had warned him in 2001 against "inappropriate touching" but never reported him.

WHAT????? He was warned? He wasn’t dragged down by his manly parts to the nearest police station booked and left to rot? Who is running these schools, Paul Ruebens? Who are they there to protect, the students or the pedophilic teacher? Do they not care about the pain these girls will carry for the rest of their lives? Do they not understand the financial liability their actions have brought upon that school district and every tax payer therein? How many types of wrong can one decision have?

Robert Sperlik Jr., 45, was still teaching last month when the parents of a 15-year-old girl contacted police with her story of abuse and Sperlik was arrested.
He was formally indicted Wednesday on multiple counts of kidnapping, sexual abuse and unlawful restraint.
The case has led to a flurry of allegations and legal actions. Two former students have filed federal lawsuits against the district over its handling of the allegations. And Sperlik's lawyer has demanded a gag order, saying police have talked so much about the case it could be hard to find an impartial jury or unsullied defense witness.

I am not a big one for lawsuits, but my God....Whoever was in charge of the decision to keep this monster is just as guilty as he is. Those poor girls. I am speechless.

Meanwhile, police say the investigation into what really happened in Sperlik's classrooms over a six-year period ending in 2003 is continuing and the number of alleged victims could grow. They have yet to identify two students in Polaroid pictures found in Sperlik's North Riverside home, partly because the girls have so much duct tape on their faces.
"It's a troubling time," said Berwyn School District 100 Superintendent Patricia Wernet, who was not in the job when the alleged abuse occurred.

Who was? I want his name!

Sperlik, who is being held without bond, appeared in Cook County Circuit Court Wednesday but did not speak.
His attorney William Hedrick used the preliminary hearing to blast Berwyn police for "parading" his client in front of news cameras and mailing a letter to residents about the case. The letter said police believe that the case is an "isolated occurrence" and that Sperlik's arrest "should put an end to this behavior."
"As opposed to acting as a police department, they appear to be acting as leaders of a mob action," Hedrick told Judge Daniel Weber. Weber set a Monday hearing on the gag order request. Police said the letter was meant to calm worried residents.
Outside court, Hedrick said Sperlik maintains his innocence.

Good God, I’ve heard enough. You can get the rest of the story here. And please if you have kids in public schools, get active. You can see by this story just how frightened you should be. If its not the monster himself, its his bureaucratic enablers. Maybe this will make some of you libs out there think twice next time before you say some no name government beaurocrat has your of your families best interests at heart.