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 . Springer 's bail has been set at $ 2 million , according to Parker . Los Angeles County prosecutors are reviewing whether to file charges against Springer , a spokeswoman said Friday . `` We 'll see have to see how far the evidence goes in the latest arrest , '' spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons told reporters . Aside from the two teachers being assigned to the same Los Angeles school , `` I 'm not aware of any connection '' between them , Parker said . Parker said he did n't know whether the two teachers allegedly committed offenses against the same pupils . Berndt , a 30-year teaching veteran , is being held on $ 23 million bail : $ 1 million for each of the 23 counts he faces of lewd acts on a child . Berndt 's attorney is a public defender , but Los Angeles County Chief Deputy Public Defender Stanley Shimotsu was not immediately available for a comment Friday . On Friday , about 15 angry parents gathered outside the school , complaining that administrators failed to apprise them of the investigation into the second teacher . One mother , Isadora Arrellano , told CNN that she will transfer her 5-year-old deaf son to another school at the end of the academic year . `` Right now I 'm really worried for my kid , '' Arrellano told CNN . `` I leave my son and I go home and I do n't know what 's going to happen to him , '' she added . `` He 's deaf , so he can not speak , so that 's why I 'm worried . I 've lost all trust in this school . '' Another mother , who identified herself by her middle name of Gloria , told CNN that Berndt tried to force her daughter to eat a cookie with `` something white '' on it . Berndt also took a photo of the girl with the cookie next to her mouth , the mother said . `` I 'm worried something could have happened to my daughter because of something he gave her , '' the mother said . Berndt assigned his pupils to bring cockroaches and insects to class , the mother said . The investigation into Berndt began in October 2010 , when a CVS drugstore photo technician in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County told the Redondo Police Department about finding disturbing images of blindfolded children in a processing order , said Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Sgt . Dan Scott . The case was turned over to the sheriff 's office , and after an initial investigation , investigators notified school authorities , who removed Berndt from his classroom in January 2011 . About 400 photographs collected by investigators show children blindfolded , with tape over their mouths , Scott said . At least 23 children in the images have been identified , while another 10 are unidentified , he said . Some photos show female students with `` what appeared to be a blue plastic spoon , filled with an unknown clear/white liquid substance , up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest the substance , '' authorities said . Scott said a search of Berndt 's classroom included a blue spoon like the one in the pictures . The spoon and small container recovered from the classroom were sent to a criminal laboratory for DNA testing . It took seven months for investigators to identify the sample as semen , Scott said , and authorities got a sample of Berndt 's DNA . He declined to reveal how . `` It took us another six to seven months to process Berndt 's DNA and match it with the classroom DNA sample that tested positive for semen , '' he said . Processing the DNA , identifying the children in the photos and conducting in-depth interviews with potential victims was time-consuming , Scott said in response to criticism over the year that passed before Berndt was arrested . `` We always had our eyes on him , and there was never a chance he would get away from us , '' Scott said . The young students `` did n't realize they were victimized , '' Scott said . `` They thought they were being blindfolded and gagged as a game . '' Berndt 's public defender has not spoken to reporters about the case , which is set for arraignment on February 21 . CNN 's Tom Larson , Stella Chan , Alan Duke and Stan Wilson contributed to this story .
NEW : Angry parents gather outside school ; two mom plans to transfer deaf son . A second Parker teacher is arrested . He allegedly fondled one girls about the past three years , police say . His case is `` quite different '' from that of another teacher also charged with lewd acts .