A former Besteiro Middle School choir teacher has pleaded guilty to enticing three teenage boys to pose for sexually explicit photographs.

Ramiro C. Lozano appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville on Tuesday morning.

The 46-year-old Brownsville teacher plead guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of children.

Federal prosecutors told Action 4 News that Lozano admitted to persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing the boys to pose for the photographs.

Authorities first learned about the photographs when Weslaco police arrested Lozano for public intoxication on Dec. 21, 2008.

Federal prosecutors said officers found Lozano asleep in his car parked along the side of a road.

Officers doing inventory of his car found several pornographic DVDs, a laptop computer and a digital camera containing numerous images of child pornography.

Lozano admitted in court on Tuesday that the items were all his and to taking pictures of the three 13-year-old boys exposing their genitals.

Federal prosecutors said all the pictures were taken at Besteiro Middle School in Brownsville. 

Lozano remains in federal custody and is expected to be sentenced on January 13, 2010.