It's affected his behavior and his schooling. "It's affected him individually," Steve Weinberger, an attorney representing the family, previously told The Republic about the victim. The boy's parents are seeking $2.5 million in damages, according to a civil lawsuit filed against Zamora, her husband and the school district last month. She's scheduled to appear in court in May for a status conference on the case. Zamora has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including molesting a child and sexual conduct with a minor. Zamora was placed on administrative leave.Īt her initial appearance in court, Zamora told the commissioner she would "love to go home, to be released. "His childhood is already (f-king) gone," the boy's dad told them. The parents met with school administrators and an officer the next morning. Goodyear police came to their house that night after the principal called the police. "Do you understand?"ĭaniel Zamora pledged to stay with his wife, though. "She had another 13-year-old in there watching the whole (f-king) thing," the father said to Daniel Zamora. The boy's father urged Daniel Zamora not to incriminate himself - to leave her. He tried to defend her, saying she was a good teacher who would do anything to help her students. Zamora's husband pleaded with the boy's parents to settle this without calling the police. I understand as a parent you have to be livid and hurt. "I've never heard of anything like this in my entire life. "This whole situation is crazy," Daniel Zamora told the boy's father. 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. "AHe asked when they could have sex again. "Hey bby," he wrote to Zamora as his parents watched. Screenshots of their conversation were turned over to police and then provided to The Republic as part of a public records request. The parents had their son message her like he normally would. The boy had deleted the messages, though. The boy admitted to his parents it was his teacher and they had had sex. Then she spotted Zamora's Instagram handle. She thought he was just chatting with a girl.
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She later told police he suddenly wanted to shut his door at night and began showing more interest in girls.Ī cellphone monitoring app - Sentry Parental Control - alerted the mom March 21 the word "baby" was repeatedly coming up in a direct message conversation on Instagram. Mom grows suspicious, discovers Instagram chatĪccording to another police video interview, the boy's mom noticed her son was acting differently.