Each parent, one by one, their eyes swollen and red from tears, stood before the D.C. judge and spoke about how their children had been sexually assaulted by an elementary school teacher they all trusted.
One woman said the teacher, Manuel Garcia Fernandez, who taught at the Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) Public Charter School, gave her son piano lessons in the basement of his home when the boy was in the fourth and fifth grade. Her son, now 9 years old, later told her that Fernandez molested him and made him watch pornographic movies.
The mother of another victim said her son climbed on his therapist's desk earlier this year and tried to open the window to jump out of it, his second attempt at suicide this year. And another woman, a 27-year D.C. police officer, said she feels guilty that she spent so much time protecting citizens of the District but was unable to protect her 9-year-old son from being molested by his teacher.
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