Friday, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge David Boynton sentenced Bero on the two felony counts. Bero will be on supervised probation for an additional five years and will be listed on the sex offender register for the rest of his life.
The two victims, both eighth graders at the time, were in Bero’s care and custody as his role as a middle school teacher at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring.
According to the court statement of charges, on July 28, 2020 the Montgomery County Police Special Victims began an investigation on events in 2014 and 2015 concerning two eighth graders...
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ReplyDelete"We learn about abuse and neglect of children because of third party reporters. One of our really reliable reporters are the employees in the Montgomery County school system," McCarthy said.
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ReplyDelete“Being groomed and sexually abused as a child robbed me of my sense of peace and safety, and joy within myself. I felt repulsed and angered by my own body. Why was he attracted to me? It’s derailed my life."