George Iliakis of Brighton Grammar is the second teacher to be arrested for a child pornography scandal.
The thirty four year old was charged with accessing and possessing child pornography.
Federal police allege they found hundreds of photographs taken by the year six teacher of boys aged between about eight and 12, some tied with rope, handcuffed or gagged.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard from Federal agent Anthony Jayatilake that Iliakis admitted he had tied up boys and photographed them for sexual gratification until 2006.
Former Brighton Grammar teacher John Newton Hewitt was last year sentenced to 18 months in jail, but released on an order to be of good behaviour after he pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
He said that “some of these individuals’’ – the boys he photographed had sent Iliakis child pornography and child abuse material.
He also said that that another boy, aged 15, had sent him images of sex acts Iliakis had asked him to perform.
Brighton Grammar headmaster Michael Urwin sent a letter to parents indicating that Iliakis had been suspended.
He said there was no suggestion Iliakis had behaved inappropriately while on the school’s staff.
Iliakis was released on Thursday following a contested bail on strict conditions to try to reduce the risk police said he posed.
Along with the bail grant, magistrate Maurice Gurvich imposed a $50,000 surety and eleven conditions that included a curfew, as well as bans on using computers, and daily reporting to police.