Tuesday, October 25, 2011

When CPS investigates...

...sometimes no one is prepared for what they find.

Joseph Garbarini III was a Kindergarten teacher in a Dallas-area school.  It seems that Mr. Garbarini had some very odd and disturbing fetishes that carried over to his teaching.  One of his 5 year old students made comments that triggered a CPS investigation.  When investigators came to search Garbarini's home, they found diapers.  Thousands of them.  Not clean ones.  Soiled diapers, waist-high throughout his home.  They also found a cage "where Garbarini said he slept in diapers because the cage door was controlled by someone on the Internet" According to Valerie Wigglesworth who was providing coverage of the trial. She goes on to say, "Investigators also found a bedroom decorated in a princess theme with Snow White bedding on a toddler bed. [The prosecutor] said the bed also had shackles."

The children indicated that Garbarini touched them inappropriately while pretending to feed them bottles and change their diapers.  Although the Mr. Garbarini's defense attorney would have you believe it was merely an odd fetish of Mr. Garbarini, but had nothing to do with the classroom,
"My greatest fear is you would look at Joseph’s private life and say it is so disgusting, so perverse and so freaky that he’s got to be guilty,” he said. “Everything found on his computers and found in his home was legal."

His lawyer also insinuated that the girls statements were influenced by their parents.  Unfortunately for Mr. Garbarini, the girls provided details of his diaper fetish, obviously proving the bizarre behavior extended to his teaching practices.

A jury found Mr. Garbarini guilty of his felony charges.  He was sentenced to 62 years in prison for his crimes.  He must serve a minimum of 52 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.  The prosecutor in the case, Crystal Levonius, asked the jury to send a message to the defendant when they delivered their guilty verdict: “Enjoy your new cage” seems to be the resounding answer.

Bad Teacher #6, John Foster
Bad Teacher #7, Shaun Bryer

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