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Walter Babst. Teacher/pedophile caught on NBC’s Dateline

Walter Babst Bonita Unified School District child molester Babst Walter Edward Babst Walter E. Babst pedophile Dateline NBC MSNBC Dateline Walter Babst AlgebraWalter 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. ruby.gonzales@sgvn.com (626) 962-8811, Ext. 2718

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24 Responses to Walter Babst. Teacher/pedophile caught on NBC’s Dateline

  1. http://webdiro.com/Shopping/
    December 17, 2012 at 8:29 am

    I relish, cause I found just what I was having a look for.

    You have ended my 4 day long hunt! God Bless you man.
    Have a nice day. Bye

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  2. Excalibur
    December 6, 2012 at 3:56 am

    Did you ever watch the episode? Babst comes across as the creepiest out of a parade of creeps. BTW All the jokes about him in prison? The pedos are kept away from inmates because they are “sick”, so they are kept away from the “real” criminals. They even get help from staff to get SSI, it makes us guards sick. No jail justice for the creeps, just an urban myth.

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  3. Walter B
    April 22, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    It was wrong to do this. Nothing was brought to the house and there was no intention of doing anything. Doing this has resulted in serious consequences. What has happened is enough punishment. Job lost…problems at home….please enough already

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    • Justin
      May 14, 2012 at 9:05 am

      I don’t really care what anyone else thinks, so I’ll just say that I feel bad for this teacher. I find it hypocritical that there are so many people who pretend to be so sympathetic and compassionate by wanting to protect underage kids, and yet they have a total witch hunt mentality and wish the most horrible humiliation and even death upon the predator. Do you not realize that being exposed and humiliated on national tv, aside from all the other family and legal problems they face is probably the worst non physical punishment a person can endure? I feel like most of the men busted in that sting are lonely, pretty idiotic, and are definitely deserving of punishment, but what this show does is over the top. How many of these men had prior criminal backgrounds? I feel like 3/4 of them would never have actually harmed a minor, but were drawn in by well trained decoys.
      I’m not excusing any of these guys, but I’m just saying that if you really think about what being on this show would do to any one of their lives, it’s more severe than most people think. People will remember you by your worst decision for the rest of your life. They wouldn’t care that maybe you do charity work, or help out family, or are a great dad, it would just be “Here comes that pedophile”.

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  4. Mike
    March 30, 2012 at 2:28 am

    This guy is SO hot.  I would suck him dry!  We’re talking every last sperm cell down my throat.  Gulp, gulp, gulp!!! 

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  5. for_realz
    June 29, 2011 at 4:12 am

    last I heard he was working for home depot

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  6. bill
    June 26, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    I heard Walter is now working as a janitor at Wal-Mart.

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  7. Dred Scott
    May 16, 2011 at 1:54 am

    Does he still get his pension? What is he doing for a living?

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  8. Anonymous
    April 24, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    I wonder if walts wife is still with him

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  9. Yelnats
    April 9, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    This guy was my teacher when he was teaching in West Covina High School, he used to sit all the girls in the front and all the guys in the back. He would stare at my friend's boobs all day. I'm glad he got what he deserved.

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  10. nj
    February 20, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    to "perv and jim" i hope u both get found out on who u are and the law will find u out and u will go to prison ur both sic !!!!!

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  11. Homer
    December 20, 2010 at 7:56 am

    Oh BTW , Bapst was creepy, like to drive old 50' & 60's Buicks. However, you left out so many other pedophiles that went to jail that had worked there. Coaches, grounds people, a continuation teacher that was caught for the third time and on the last time he was caught he drove to San Berdo and put 45 gun in his mouth and blew out his brains.

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  12. Homer
    December 20, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Dear Moderator, You really don't know just how bad it is over there do you. I 've seen a lot in ten years, So much that some people need to go to jail, Sheriffs were notified but that's where it ended. Employees selling drugs to kids, major theft, stolen equip. that was never looked into, administrators caught having sex in classrooms and admin offices……there's a huge list of things.

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  13. concerned
    December 3, 2010 at 2:11 am

    A.K.A. the "luftwaffe birdman"…like the birdman of alcatraz. Here he is posting pictures of his model airplanes. You can chat with him…his email address is on his handle too. It's him…this particular airplane was made before he got busted. link: http://www.network54.com/Forum/47751/message/1291…

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  14. former WC student
    November 22, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    he was a teacher in west covina high school for quite a long time. I didnt have him but many MANY people were creeped out about him

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  15. jim
    November 7, 2010 at 6:28 am

    nothin like bangin a kid

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  16. nickki
    March 15, 2010 at 4:17 am

    that teacher was a teaching out here in north carolina he was my 9th grade science teacher…

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  18. To catch a cold
    November 17, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    No joke. Turn over your computer you hypocrit. It's not like he is going to be looking up Algebra problems on the net – his life is boring as hell. It's good he was busted. I would go to jail too if I had to teach Algebra all my life – a subject that means nothing in the businessworld and society.

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  19. jon
    February 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Oh please, how can you expect the school district to know he was a pedophile, I can understand your frustration but don’t be dumb. Thanks.

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    • parentof2
      November 21, 2010 at 10:27 pm

      the school ignored numerous reports by STUDENTS that he was trying to look up the girls dresses and down their blouses. Its not dumb to think the district bare responsibility if it was one of your daughters and their complaints were ignored, am I right?

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