New documents reveal the timeline of events that led to sixth-grade teacher Brittany Zamora’s (pictured) arrest for molesting a 13-year-old student
Officials at an Arizona elementary school were warned that a teacher was having a relationship with a 13-year-old student nearly six weeks before she was arrested for molestation.
The shocking revelation was made by the Arizona Republic, which recently obtained documents showing the timeline of events leading up to married Brittany Zamora’s arrest on March 22.
The documents show that students complained to administrators on February 8 about Zamora favoring a student.
Some of the students went so far as to say that she was ‘dating’ or ‘in a relationship’ with the teen.
‘Everyone talks about them having an inappropriate relationship outside of class and at recess,’ one of the students said, according to notes taken by Principal Tom Dickey in an interview.
‘I’ve heard other kids in my class say that they think they are dating,’ another note reads.
The school district interim superintendent, Richard Rundhaug, told the Republic that they investigated the allegations at the time, but found no evidence of a romantic relationship.
The 27-year-old teacher is pictured above in court last month as she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her
At her initial court appearance on March 30 (pictured above), Zamora said: ‘I’d love to go home to my husband.’ The child’s parents have slammed Zamora and called her a ‘monster’
‘We did investigate. We determined there were some elements of favoritism, and we gave the teacher some very specific direction on not allowing that favoritism to continue, and then we monitored to make sure those directions were followed,’ Rundhaug said.
‘Whenever we became aware of information, our response was pretty quick,’ he added.
Zamora wasn’t arrested until a little less than six weeks later, when the boy’s parents discovered explicit text messages on his phone, thanks to a monitoring app.
The boy’s father came in to tell administrators about the relationship on March 21, and a police report was made the same day. Zamora was arrested the next day and charged with 10 counts of sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of molestation, two counts of furnishing sexually explicit material to a minor and one count public sexual indecency. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. She has since been fired by the district.
Steven Weinberger, the lawyer that is representing the victim, told the Republic in March that the family is exploring a possible lawsuit against the school.
The teacher married Daniel Zamora, who she knew since she was 16, in 2015
‘Based on what we know thus far, the school had ample opportunity to nip this in the bud,’ he said. ‘The school knew that there was an inappropriate relationship going on dating back to, at the very least, early February before this escalated into sexual molestation.’
Zamora had been at Las Brisas Academy Elementary School for less than a year
According to police, Zamora had sex with the student on at least three occasions, from about February 1 to March 8 – including performing oral sex on him in a classroom and in her car.
She is also said to have sent the boy nude pictures of herself, and other sexually explicit text messages.
After one of their trysts, the boy sent Zamora a text saying he wanted to have sex with her again. This was her response: ‘I know baby! I want you every day with no time limit…If I could quit my job and (have sex with) you all day long, I would.’
The boy told cops that Zamora initiated the relationship by ‘flirting’ with him in a classroom chat room.
The boy’s parents discovered the text messages on his phone thanks to an app called Sentry Parental Control which monitors messaging apps for ‘suspicious content or behavior’.
Zamora had taught at the school for less than a year.
A week after her arrest the parents of the victim broke their silence to call Zamora a ‘monster’.
The boy’s father, who asked to remain anonymous, told AZFamily: ‘You teach your kids there’s no such thing as monsters at all. But in the real world, there are monsters. Brittany Zamora is a monster.’
According to the stepmother, who also asked not to be named, Zamora began grooming her pupil using a classroom group chat.
Zamora was taken into custody hours after the boy’s parents reported the relationship to the school principal on March 21
Students who spoke to the local media outlet said Zamora’s relationship with the student in question seemed irregular (pictured is Las Brisas Academy)
‘It just progressed from there,’ she said. ‘He was taken advantage of. She was just using him for her own grotesque benefits.’
The father added: ‘A big thing for us is that we want people to understand, just because it’s a boy makes no difference.
‘It’s the same. It’s a 13-year-old child who got taken advantage by a monster. I want her to spend the rest of her life in prison.’
The boy’s parents recently claimed Zamora’s husband Daniel called them and begged them not to report his wife to police after they saw her sexual texts, saying she had made a mistake.
A second student later came forward to police saying he had witnessed Zamora having sex with the 13-year-old and admitted to receiving naked photos from the woman as well.
The parents of the alleged victim told police that Zamora’s husband ‘harassed’ the father over the phone, begging him not to go to the authorities and insisting that his wife had ‘made a big mistake, but that she loved the kids,’ according to the documents.
Daniel Zamora also allegedly suggested that he and the boy’s dad ‘meet up’ and ‘settle this,’ but the parent turned down his offer and hung up on him.
Zamora and her husband, who she has known she was 16, married in 2015. They don’t have any children.
‘From the moment we first saw each other, we had been falling for one another. So, it was only appropriate to ask Brittany [to marry me] while falling; a.k.a. skydiving,’ Daniel wrote on a blog about his over-the-top marriage proposal.