Arizona teacher sexually molested boy in classroom while other student watched, records say

SettingsCancelSetHave an existing account?Already have a subscription?Don't have an account?Get the newsLet friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutRecords obtained by The Arizona Republic add insight into Goodyear teacher Brittany Zamora's alleged sexual misconduct with a 13-year-old student.A link has been sent to your friend's email address.A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Goodyear teacher Brittany Zamora is arrested on March 22, 2018, on suspicion of sexual misconduct with her 13-year-old student. William Flannigan, azcentralAn alleged illicit sexual relationship between a Goodyear teacher and her 13-year-old student started with a message on a school app.Las Brisas Academy elementary teacher Brittany Zamora asked her sixth-grade students to message her on an online instruction app called Class Craft because she was going to be bored at school one day. But police say a message from one male student quickly turned into flirting and then evolved into a sexual relationship between the then-27-year-old and her barely teenage pupil.Records obtained by The Arizona Republic provide additional detail about Zamora's alleged sexual misconduct with the student. Video, police interviews and Zamora's arrest captured on body-worn cameras describe how Zamora and the boy had sex multiple times in her car and classroom — once with another male student in the room.The two even sexually touched each other while oblivious students watched a video, records show. She continues to be held in a Maricopa County jail on a $250,000 bond, according to public court records.The 13-year-old boy told a police interviewer he couldn't remember how their conversations evolved from student-teacher conversations to flirting and, eventually, exchanging I-love-yous.They talked frequently about what they wanted to do to each other, he told the interviewer. They would touch each other sexually in the back of the room while other students watched videos.Other times, the boy told the interviewer, Zamora "touched his stuff" at her desk while she pretended to look for something in a drawer. Goodyear police display notes that are believed to have been written by Brittany Zamora and the 13-year-old student with whom she is accused of engaging in sexual misconduct. (Photo: Goodyear Police Department)The friend recounted to police how rumors circulated about Zamora and the student in January 2018, months before her arrest. She asked if the parents would meet with her privately before putting her husband, Daniel Zamora, on the phone.He didn't seem to know his wife's relationship with the student went beyond a few text messages before the boy's father told him otherwise."This whole situation is crazy," Daniel Zamora told the boy's father. I'm hurt."Zamora's husband pleaded with the boy's parents to settle this without calling the police.