Nine-year-old Ruby Garduno, right, holds a sign as students enter Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Children are returning to the school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Nine-year-old Ruby Garduno, right, holds a sign as students enter Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Children are returning to the school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Teacher Martha Cedeno reads a story to her first grade class at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles after the campus re-opened with all-new slate of teachers and administrators on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The campus was closed for two days by Los Angeles Unified School District to replace the staff after two teachers where charged with lewd acts on students. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Ifran Khan, Pool)
An adult accompanies two students into Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Children are returning to a Los Angeles-area elementary school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A group of students and parents protest outside Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Children are returning to a Los Angeles-area elementary school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kathryn Kidd, center, distribute bracelets to students outside Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Children are returning to the school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A teacher charged in a sex abuse scandal that has rocked a Los Angeles elementary school is free on bail.
The Los Angeles County sheriff's department says Martin Springer was released early Friday. He had been held on $300,000 bail.
The sheriff's office says he was fitted with an electronic ankle monitor.
The 49-year-old has pleaded not guilty to committing three lewd acts on one girl in class in 2009. He was arrested last week after two girls said he fondled them, but one has since recanted her allegation.
Springer's arrest came shortly after another former teacher was charged with 23 counts of lewd acts upon children. Mark Berndt is accused of feeding his semen to some students during "tasting games" in his classroom from 2005 to 2010.
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