NEW YORK – Another Bronx teacher was arrested this week for allegedly raping a student.

He’s the second in as many weeks.

Music teacher Brian Kearins, 33, taught at Herbert H. Lehman High School where he allegedly had sexual contact with one of his 16-year-old students on several occasions between October 2012 and April 2013, Metro.us reports.

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The alleged relationship was uncovered when the victim’s older sister came across emails between the victim and a relative that said she had sex with her teacher. The sister told her mother, and the mother reported the situation to the school, first through an anonymous tip, then with a formal report, according to the news site.

Kearins is a married father of two, including a newborn, the New York Daily News reports.

“At approximately 1 p.m. Tuesday, a school safety agent notified the Bronx Special Victims Squad. Police arrived at the school and interviewed the girl approximately 30 minutes later,” Metro.us reports. “The girl reportedly told police that she and Kearins had sexual relations on four separate occasions in the music room. The first incident occurred in October 2012, the most recent in March or April of this year.”

Police talked the student into calling Kearins from the District Attorney’s Office, the news site reports, and that’s when the teacher incriminated himself.  He allegedly told the girl to wipe her phone records clean and erase electronic trails between the two. He also told her to tell her mother she “likes girls,” and that she has a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Police arrested Kearins at his home Tuesday. During a short interrogation he denied the sexual relationship and requested an attorney, the news site reports.

He now faces charges of committing a criminal sex act and endangering the welfare of a child. Kearins has a prior record for drunken driving and marijuana possession, the news site reports.

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The district is seeking his termination, and will be required to go through a lengthy hearing process while Kearins continues to collect his $69,720 salary. He’s worked at the high school for a decade, according to Metro.us.

The case comes one week after another Bronx teacher, Anthony Criscuolo, was arrested and charged with predatory sexual assault against a child after he alleged raped a 10-year-old student in his care. The district is also seeking Criscuolo’s termination, and both Criscuolo and Kearins have been reassigned away from students.

The mother of Kearins’ alleged victim said she came forward in part because of the publicity surrounding Criscuolo’s case. The issue of educator sexual misconduct also has the attention of state Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Democrat from the Bronx who introduced legislation this week that would bar school employees charged with sexual misconduct from school property.

“I remain disgusted by the Daily News report that cited how city education officials tried to fire 128 school employees since 2007 for sexual misconduct or inappropriate relationships with students – but only 33 were actually axed,” Diaz said, according to the Daily News.

He said the legislation “will protect our children from being approached on school grounds by an alarming number of known pedophiles who continue to lurk in our school system,” Diaz said in a statement.

Union protections would still require the city to pay educators charged with sexual misconduct, regardless of Diaz’s proposed bill, but the legislation certainly would help limit contact between pedophile teachers and their victims.

City education officials, meanwhile, contend the Bronx cases illustrate exactly why they need more power to terminate dangerous teachers.

“It should be clear to everyone by now – including the teachers union – that we can’t wait for someone to get convicted before being able to fire them,” NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott told the Daily News.