Dr. Lipson is Program Director as well as Associate Professor of the Forensic Psychology Program at Alliant International University, San Diego Campus. A Diplomate in forensic psychology he has evaluated victims, perpetrators and has been retained in suits involving clergy, youth organization and internet exploitation. He has appeared in an Expert capacity on local media outlets, Court TV/Sessions and the Verdict with Paula Todd. Dr. Lipson has worked with HBO and the Discovery channel. As a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology he has testified in homicide, sexual assault and other high profile cases.

Dr. Lipson is often called in to conduct tests and interviews to produce a forensic psychological report of the court.

The discussion tonight will start with the changes Dr. Lipson is about to take on in his professional life but then will segue into the horrors happening in the California Schools both in Los Angeles and Fresno Counties.

Among tonight’s topics will be Mark Berndt, Neng Yang, another teacher arrested at Mr. Berndt’s school and the Los Angeles elementary school short closing as it replaced ALL of the staff. How do you know which parents are being honest and which ones are jumping on a class action lawsuit? What do the children in these schools need to move pass this or can they move past this?

Mark Berndt, 61, had taught School since August 1979. According to the Los Angeles Times, the former teacher had no disciplinary record in his over 30 years of teaching. On Monday, January 30th, Berndt was arrested and charged with 23 counts. On Wednesday, a judge increased his bail to $23 million or $1 million per count at the request of prosecutors.

Police arrested Neng Yang last week, after the alleged victim’s mother asked why she wasn’t in her physical education class at her Clovis school.

Yang entered his not guilty plea to 45 counts on Wednesday in Fresno County Superior Court. He previously pleaded not guilty to a federal count.

The 43-year-old was being held on $4.5 million bail.

Per CNN A Los Angeles-area school at the center of a shocking child abuse scandal reopens Thursday with an entirely new staff, including the principal, teachers, administrators and janitors.

The Los Angeles Unified School District replaced the Miramonte Elementary staff to avoid “surprises,” educators said.

About 70 new teachers will welcome the 1,400 students who attend Miramonte when they resume classes.

“The teachers are concerned on how the children are going to feel,” said Contisia Davis, a special education assistant and 16-year teaching veteran.

Classes resume as attorneys representing eight alleged victims say they’ll announce the first lawsuits of the sexual misconduct scandal. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles will also join the news conference Thursday.

Los Angeles County investigators have found 200 more photos allegedly taken by Mark Berndt a sheriff’s spokesman said Wednesday, February 8th.

Authorities identified pupils in 175 of the 200 photographs and are trying to identify those in the remaining 25, said Sgt. Dan Scott of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Berndt, who allegedly took a total 600 photographs, was accused of taking bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom, including some with suspected semen-filled spoons at their mouths.

The school board fired Berndt a year ago, but he appealed, then dropped the appeal and resigned last spring, school spokesman Tom Waldman said. He is being held in lieu of $23 million bail, authorities said.

In their expanding investigation into the sexual misconduct scandal, authorities also charged a second teacher, Martin Bernard Springer, 49, of Alhambra, California, whom the school board fired Tuesday, February 7th.

Springer was arrested and pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three felony charges of lewd acts with a girl under age 14.

“At this time, we have only enough evidence to charge him with one victim,” spokeswoman Jane Robison of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Wednesday.

Springer’s attorney, Daniel Kolodziej, said Wednesday that it is “premature” to release a statement or comment on allegations against his client.

The old Miramonte staff has been relocated indefinitely, school officials said.

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