Finding your favorite 5th grade teacher on the Sex Offender Database
I was poking around the net typing in names of old friends and teachers into Google and seeing whatever happened to them. I came across this photo of my 5th grade teacher, Terry Bartholome:
Unfortunately, I found my teacher the photo from the Megan’s Law database. Not exactly the place you want to find one of your childhood teachers. In fact the experience kind of dampens any good memories I had of him. Bartholome was one of the most popular teachers at the school and we used to call him “Mr. Barth-all-over-me”.
I felt lucky to have been assigned to Bartholome’s class instead of Mr. Robinson–who was a dick. In retrospect, while Mr. Robinson was an asshole at least he wasn’t fantasizing about doing my pre-pubescent female classmates like Mr. Bartholome was. Here is what one journalist who covered the Bartholome arrest had to say:
But the story that stays with me most — one of the district’s darkest moments — came more than 20 years ago, when South Los Angeles elementary school teacher Terry Bartholome was sentenced to 44 years in prison for molesting 13 girls in his third-grade class.
Let’s just say that I won’t be looking for him at any reunions.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Nice pic. Your 5th grade teacher is having either a heart attack or an orgasm. I’m rooting for heart attack.
July 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Let’s hope he’s never available to make a reunion. Seems like he got off light. Even at $1.50 a shot (more than he’s worth), I think a .45-70 could fix all that’s wrong with him.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:27 am
My guess is you won’t be seeing him at all - this looks like a post-mortem shot - don’t know why it’s in a database for sex offenders, but I think this guy’s dead. Glad he didn’t harm you. Good luck.