Los Angeles (CNN) -- Another teacher has been arrested at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on allegations of lewd acts on young pupils, authorities said Friday.
Capt. Mike Parker of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said that Friday's arrest is "quite different" from the arrest earlier this week of another teacher, Mark Berndt.
Berndt, 61, was accused of taking bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom, some showing suspected semen-filled spoons at the children's mouths, authorities said.
Investigators from the special victims bureau arrested the second teacher, Martin Bernard Springer, 49, of Alhambra, California, on Friday, Parker told reporters. Springer's arrest came after investigators received "new information" on Thursday morning that led them to the teacher.
Authorities say that the allegations involved two young girls "who were allegedly fondled in the classroom" by the suspect, Parker said.
The girls were about 7 at the time of the alleged offenses, which occurred "during the past three years," Parker said.
By all means, read the full article. I actually left out some information because I just couldn't quite bring myself to put it in this article.
I don't give a crap about No Child Left Behind. I'm sick of standardized testing scandals. I want to see a nationwide focus on protecting our kids from this. This right here, which is happening all over the place. From coast to coast, we have teachers abusing young children, and aren't even bothered to read the full story when a teacher takes sexual advantage of high school students.
They deserve our protection, and for God's sake, they deserve our effort to keep this from happening. If that means orientation that tells kids what to report, cameras in classrooms, or whatever else it might take.
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