The Los Angeles elementary school teacher accused of taking bondage-type photos of his students and spoon feeding them his semen may have been preying on his pupils nearly 20 years ago. I am confused as to why would anyone be allowed to teach children if he had a prior case with a child. Clic below to find out more.

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Mark Berndt, 61, was investigated in 1994 for allegedly trying to grope a 10-year-old girl in his class at Miramonte Elementary School in South Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported.

The girl claimed that the creep reached toward her crotch during class in September 1993, but she slapped his hand away, cops said.

The unidentified girl’s mother complained to the school about four months after the alleged incident occurred.

The sheriff’s department eventually sent the complaint to the L.A. district attorney, which declined to file charges.

The girl and her mother were not identified.

Reports of the investigation follow claims from two other former female students who were in fourth grade around the same time.

Marlene Truhillo, 30, and her former classmate, Nadine Martinez Rodriguez, told the Los Angeles Times that Berndt often moved his hands under his desk near his lap, and that other students had spotted a jar of Vaseline in his desk.

Both girls reported the odd behavior at the time, but weren’t taken seriously by school officials or Rodriguez’s parents.

Berndt, of Torrance, remained locked up on Thursday after a judge jacked his bail from $2.3 million to $23 million – $1 million for each count of lewd acts against children he is facing.

Prosecutors say Berndt, who has taught at Miramonte for three decades, bound and blindfolded his students and photographed them for sexual kicks between 2005 and 2010.

Some of the nearly 400 pics, snapped with a cheap disposable camera, show children with giant Madagascar cockroach on their faces, while others show a blue plastic spoon, said to be filled with Berndt’s semen, held up to some students’ mouths.

Police have said that Berndt told the kids they were going to play a “tasting game” before blindfolding them.

Berndt was arrested on Monday after a yearlong investigation.

He had been fired by the school in January 2011 after the allegations first surfaced.

More than 26 boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 10 were identified in the photos, cops said. Ten others have not been identified.

DN