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Am trying to find out if he was not supposed to be around children as a
condition of
an obvious plea bargain.
> By Nathaniel Sheppard Jr.
> New York Times
> November 7, 1974
>
> A 33-year old drama teacher in an intermediate school in the Bronx was
arrested yesterday on charges that he had ***ually abused four boy pupils.
>
> The police would give no details of the case against the teacher, Harvey
N. Berish, of 34 Metropolitan Oval, the Bronx, saying only that the arrest
followed
> investigation of a complaint "of a less-serious crime".
>
> The arrest of Mr. Berish at the Daniel Hale Williams Intermediate School
in the Co-Op City section of the northern Bronx surprised the principal,
Jack Landman,
who called the teacher's record "exemplary and unblemished." Mr. Berish
has
been a
teacher for 12 years.
>
> A spokesman for the Board of Education said Mr. Berish would be assigned
to administrative duties at the Bronx district office until the charges
were
resolved. He said that this was standard procedure.
>
> **No Complaints Re****ted**
>
> Mr. Landman said that the school administration had not received any
complaints against Mr. Berish, and that the first he knew of the
allegation
was when
detectives from the 45th Precinct came to the school to arrest the
teacher.
>
> "They wouldn't give me any details of the matter and would not even
identify the four students", Mr. Landman said. "I don't know for a fact
that they were from
here."
>
> A spokesman for the Board of Education said the police had told them
they
acted after investigating a complaint that led to three other boys, all
between 12 and
13 years of age, who alleged ***ual misconduct by the teacher. The
spokesman said
the police had told the Board of Education that the latest incident took
place last
Friday during school hours.
>
> Mr. Landman said Mr. Berish came to the school three years ago, after
nine
years at Herman Ridder Junior High School in the Bronx. He said the
teacher
had
been highly recommended by hsi fodmer [sic} school.
>
> The principal said Mr. Berish was coordinator of the school's special
dramatic arts program, which puts on four major performances each year.
>
> He said Mr.; Berish had previously worked with high school bands and one
nonschool affiliated band -- the Knickerbockers Drum and Bugle Corps. Mr.
Landman
said the 100-member band had played at the second Presidential
Inauguration
of
Richard M. Nixon, had performed before the United Nations, and had won top
honors at
the National Marching Band Champion****p in Cheyenne, Wyo.
>
> The band went to China recently under the auspices of the State
Department, Mr. Landman added.
>
> According to school officials, Mr. Berish lived alone.
>
> NEWS BRIEFS
> The Daily News
> March 15, 1975
>
> Teacher Admits ***ually Abusing Pupil
>
> Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola announced yesterday that a drama
teacher at Bronx Intermediate School 180 has pleaded guilty to a charge of
sodomy
involving one of his students.
>
> The defendant, Harvey Berish, 33, who is single and lives at 34
Metropolitan Oval in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, was arrested on
November 6, 1974, at IS 180, 700 Baychester Ave., after the students [sic]
complained he had been ***ually abused by Berish. A subsequent
investigation, according to the DA, led to four other boys
> who had made similar charges resulting in an 11-count indictment.
>
> If convicted of all charges, Berish faces up to seven years in jail.
>
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