The crimes occurred between 2008 and 2010. (Paige Brettingen/Neon Tommy)

Some of the documents are related to the case of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who was charged in 2012 with 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children. He engaged in “tasting games” with his students by feeding them his semen by spoon, and on cookies, and sometimes blindfolded and photographed the students as well, according to the Huffington Post.

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KPCC reports that public relations representative Sean Rossall, from one of the law firms representing LAUSD, said that the documents going back to 1988 were destroyed in 2008 and that, “We didn’t have the right to have them.”

Victims and their attorneys have been outraged by the news and are reaching out to the United States Department of Justice to start an investigation into the district, as they believe that they are protecting child predators. They also believe that this move is a clear indication of how the district failed to protect its students.

The LA Unified School District has to date, paid around $40 million in settlements of 63 child abuse lawsuits. The case currently going on involves 71 children and the first trial is set for the 8th of July.

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