Olathe ? Two girls testified that a man who was their grade-school teacher got them to take sexually inappropriate pictures, rewarding them with “tickets” they could use to buy candy and school supplies.

The former teacher, Neal Lenarcic, 31, was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Johnson County District Court. No date has been set for his trial on three felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child.

One of the witnesses was an FBI agent who said Lenarcic fainted when told last year about the allegations.

“He passed out cold,” said the agent, Brian Ritter.

Lenarcic was living in suburban St. Louis when the allegations came to light. Ritter said Overland Park police asked the FBI to assist in questioning him, so Ritter and another agent went to Lenarcic’s home and he agreed to talk to them.

Ritter said after Lenarcic fainted, he was laid on the floor while the other agent called 911. After being checked by paramedics, Lenarcic again agreed to talk to the agents, Ritter said.

The allegations date to the spring of 2002 when Lenarcic taught at Harmony Elementary School in Overland Park.

Two girls, third-graders at the time and now 12 years old, testified that they took pictures of each other and a third girl in a school bathroom, using a digital camera.

In response to a question from Scott Toth, an assistant district attorney, one girl said Lenarcic asked them to take the pictures of their private areas.

Under cross-examination, she said the teacher never specifically told them what parts of their bodies he wanted photographed.

“He just pointed to where he wanted the pictures taken,” she said.

The girl estimated that the other girls took more than 30 pictures of her. The second girl who testified said she thought she was photographed nine to 14 times.

The girls testified that Lenarcic rewarded them with “tickets,” which students could use to buy such things as candy and school supplies. They said they had approached Lenarcic and asked if there was a way they could earn extra tickets.

The girls said the pictures were taken while other children were outside for recess, and they never talked about it with their schoolmates.

Ritter, the FBI agent, testified that Lenarcic said he had possessed the photographs and looked at them, but that taking them was the girls’ idea and he never told them what to do.

Ritter said Lenarcic also said he never distributed the photos and had deleted them. No images were on his computer.

Lenarcic, who is free on bond, is no longer a teacher and now lives in the Seattle area.