The entire staff at a school in California have been suspended while authorities investigate allegations of child sex abuse.
All 88 teachers and 40 support staff are being temporarily replaced at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles.
The wholesale substitution comes after two teachers were arrested following allegations of abuse.
Mark Berndt, 61, who has taught at the school for 32 years, has been charged with committing lewd acts on 23 children aged between six and 10.
Martin Springer, 49, is being held on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom.
It is not clear if the two are alleged to have operated in collusion with each other.
No other teachers have been accused. Authorities said the staff are being suspended because a full investigation of the allegations will be disruptive.
The case has prompted outrage, not least because parents allege they first made the school aware of their concerns four years ago and it failed to act.
One couple say they showed school authorities photographic evidence backing up their concerns about Berndt in 2008.
Their daughter was taken out of his class and placed in that of Springer, the other teacher now facing sex abuse allegations.
There have been angry demonstrations at the school in a poor, mainly Latina neighbourhood. Many parents had refused to send their children to school following the scandal.
The issue of child abuse is rarely away from the headlines in the US. Scandals involving the abuse of many children by Catholic priests have been followed by others engulfing US sporting institutions.
One of America's greatest college football coaches Joe Paterno, who died last month , was forced to stand down because of allegations one of his assistants, Jerry Sandusky, abused children in his care .
Sandusky is fighting multiple charges of child sex abuse.
Before his death from lung cancer, Paterno a legendary head coach at Penn State University, admitted he was warned about Sandusky 10 years ago, but failed to act to stop him.
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