LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Days after the arrest of a school teacher accused of taking bondage-style photos of students with cockroaches on their faces, a second instructor from the same school was arrested on Friday on suspicion of molesting two girls, authorities said. Publicity surrounding the arrest of the first teacher, Mark Berndt, 61, led to complaints being brought against his colleague, Martin Springer, 49. The two cases are believed to be otherwise unrelated, said Captain Mike Parker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. School officials suspended Springer on Thursday after receiving "allegations of possible inappropriate behavior," the Los Angeles Unified School District said in a statement. He was arrested on Friday on suspicion of performing lewd acts on two girls, and was jailed in lieu of $2 million bond, Parker said. The girls accused Springer of fondling them in class during the past three years, the sheriff's department said. The LAUSD superintendent has said he would ask the school board at its meeting next Tuesday to fire Springer. Berndt, who taught third grade, was arrested on Monday and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. His arrest followed a year-long investigation that began when a drug store photo processor turned over pictures to police that showed students blindfolded and with their mouths covered with tape. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Berndt was suspected of convincing the abused students they were playing some kind of blind-folded tasting game. A LAUSD spokeswoman, Ellen Morgan, said Berndt was still receiving a state pension of nearly $4,000 a month. A spoon recovered from the trash bin in Berndt's classroom later tested positive for semen, and Berndt's DNA was found to match that of the DNA profile found on the spoon, said Sgt. Dan Scott, an investigators for the sheriff's special victims unit. Scott said sheriff's deputies investigated allegations from a 9-year-old girl who claimed Berndt in 1993 had tried to reach under her desk to fondle her. Prosecutors the following year declined to file charges in the matter after determining they lacked sufficient evidence, the District Attorney's Office said in a statement on Thursday. LAUSD officials said the school district had no record of the previous investigation of Berndt. Editing by Steve Gorman, Daniel Trotta and Tim Gaynor