Brittany Zamora is 27 years old. The teacher from Arizona taught sixth grade.
She is no longer a teacher, and not likely to be a teacher ever again.
Not after allegedly engaging in multiple sex acts with a 13-year-old student, some of which took place within a classroom.
Sexual predators exist in all walks of life, unfortunately, but few have the degree of access to minors that a teacher does.
Brittany Zamora, seen above looking very unhappy in her mugshot, was arrested last week for a series of alleged sexual encounters with a 13-year-old student.
According to the boy’s statement to police, it all started when Zamora began flirting with him in a classroom chat.
Over time, during which one assumes that she groomed the boy to feel more comfortable with her inappropriate overtures, she sent him nude photos of herself.
From there, things escalated.
Between February 1st and March 1st of this year, this extremely inappropriate relationship between a 27-year-old teacher and her 13-year-old student became disturbingly physical.
According to the Arizona Republic, Zamora and the unnamed student had sex on three occasions during that time.
Zamora also reportedly performed oral sex on the student in her car … and in a classroom.
During this, she sent messages that have since been preserved, with statements like:
“I [want to have sex with you] baby! I want you every day with no time limit.”
She also wrote: “If I could quit my job and (have sex with) you all day long, I would.”
This pattern of statutory rape was discovered by the student’s parents, who had installed an app on his phone so that they could spy upon his activities. (That tech is abhorrent and often used for the worst reasons, but this time, it was helpful)
From there, parents contacted the principal.
Hours later, Zamora was arrested. This all took place last Wednesday.
There is a twist to this story, however.
Because there was someone else who knew about this illicit and illegal relationship for some — unknown — period of time before the arrest.
Brittany Zamora’s husband, Daniel Zamora, whom she had known since she was 15 — not much older than her victim.
Daniel reportedly called the boy’s parents multiple times and pleaded with them to not go to police with the report of Zamora’s actions.
Bizarrely, Daniel allegedly made an offer to the boy’s father that the two men could resolve the situation through a fight.
Statutory rape cannot be resolved through, um, trial by combat or whatever it was that Mr. Zamora, clearly desperate to spare his wife from prison, was envisioning.
Some who have read the story have responded with shock and anger that Zamora’s husband was apparently aware of the affair, and some asked how long he had known.
The answer is unclear, but many assume that Brittany Zamora told her husband when she realized that she was caught. Better to hear it from her … we guess?
It is refreshing, at least, to see people respond with anger to news of this twisted crime instead of with jokes or expressions of envy.
Statutory rape is statutory rape, folks.
Zamora made an appearance in court on Friday. She’s charged with multiple counts of sexual contact with a minor, child molestation, and transmitting obscene material.
Another student admitted to having witnessed the sexual relationship between teacher and student, and also admitted that Zamora had sent him an illicit photo, too.
Some have observed that they believe that these illegal relationships in which teachers prey upon their students are happening more frequently.
It may be, however, that since modern relationships so often happen through technology, these crimes have been happening for generations, and being caught more often now because they leave an electronic trail.
The world can be a frightening place.
