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Parents and others protest outside Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Monday. The school has been rocked by allegations of lewd conduct crimes by two teachers against children. Picture: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Los Angeles- A bizarre case at a school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling two little girls.

Martin Springer, 49, was arrested on Friday. The announcement sent further shock waves through the campus already reeling from the arrest of teacher Mark Berndt, who was charged with committing lewd acts on 23 children, aged six to 10, between 2005 and 2010.

Victims in the second case were about seven and eight years old and were fondled once each in a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School during the past three years.

In a related development, a lawyer stated that he intended to file a lawsuit alleging that a girl ate a sugar biscuit laced with Berndt’s semen.

After news broke on Friday about Springer, parents took their children out of the school.

The development involving Springer was made public a day after the authorities acknowledged that 18 years ago, a 10-year-old girl had claimed Berndt tried to fondle her.

Prosecutors had declined to file to charges against Berndt in the 1993 report, saying they did not have enough evidence.

The details of that case and other claims by two former pupils surfaced just three days after Berndt’s arrest.

School officials have been lambasted by parents for waiting a year to reveal that Berndt was suspected of blindfolding children and feeding them his semen in his classroom in what children were allegedly told was a tasting game. – Sapa-AP