20 years of: A culture of corruption in the schools.

— Two teachers reported Berndt was exposing himself to students in the mid-1990s.

— Several girls had complained in the early 1990s that Berndt was masturbating in class, but the allegations were dismissed and the girls were accused of lying.

— The Sheriff's Department investigated Berndt in 1994 but prosecutors declined to bring charges for lack of evidence.

"There were so many things along the way that were signs," Manly said, including photographs a parent brought to the head of the school in 2008 of a child eating a cookie covered in white slime.