The teacher at the heart of the school sex abuse scandal appeared in a Los Angeles court Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to 23 charges of lewd acts on students.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Mark Berndt, a 61-year-old longtime teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in southeast Los Angeles, is accused of sexually abusing at least 23 male and female students during school hours, ranging from 6 to 10 years old, from 2008 until 2010.

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The man behind the sex scandal that has torn a school apart and gotten the entire staff removed from their jobs, once dressed up as Mickey Mouse and posed creepily with children under his care, and RadarOnline.com has the disturbing photos.

Mark Berndt, 61, can be seen wearing plastic black mouse ears, blue shorts and black tights in the incriminating photo, while standing with his arm around the shoulders of a little girl dressed in a pretty pink princess costume.

The web of sex and scandal at a Los Angeles school spun even further out of control Wednesday when it was revealed that a female teacher’s aide allegedly wrote love letters to an 11-year-old boy.

Areceli Luisjuan reportedly penned the indecent messages to the fourth-grader at Miramonte Elementary School in south east L.A. in June 2009, much to the disgust of the boy’s mother, who reported it to sheriff deputies and school authorities but claims she wasn’t taken seriously.

Los Angeles school authorities have made an extreme response to the arrest of two teachers accused of sex abuse by removing the entire faculty while they investigate the allegations.

All staff members from the principal to custodians at Miramonte Elementary School in southeast Los Angeles will be replaced, reported KABC-TV.

A second teacher has been arrested in connection with horrifying abuse allegations at the Los Angeles school where an alleged child abuser carried out sick acts on students for decades.

Martin Springer, a 49-year-old teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in south east Los Angeles, was arrested on Friday after two seven-year-old students allegedly made accusations to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Parents of children who were taught by the Los Angeles teacher charged with multiple counts of lewd conduct are outraged that the school let his vile acts go on for so long, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, longtime elementary school teacher Mark Berndt was set to appear in court on Wednesday to be arraigned on 23 criminal counts of suspicion of committing lewd acts upon a child.

Now concerned parents are speaking out against the school after graphic details emerge about the gross molestation he performed on more than 23 kids, which included taping their mouths shut, letting live cockroaches crawl on their faces, and feeding the boys and girls a clear liquid substance, which subsequent tests showed to be semen.

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A longtime elementary school teacher in Southern California is set to appear in Los Angeles court Wednesday morning to be arraigned on 23 criminal counts of suspicion of committing lewd acts upon a child.

Former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested Monday at his home in Torrance, California. He’s accused of sexually abusing at least 23 male and female students during school hours, ranging from 6- to 10-years-old from 2008 until 2010, according to police.

Berndt, who taught at the school for more than 30 years, is currently being held on $2.3 million bail, officials said.