The husband of a former Arizona teacher in prison for sexually abusing a 13-year-old student vigorously defended his wife in the days leading up to his 2018 arrest and even spoke to the victim's parents. They pressed the government to resolve this heinous matter outside of court.
new documentary Photos released last month captured the moment Brittany Zamora's husband, Daniel, made an impassioned phone call to the student's furious father, pleading with him to forgive his wife and refrain from calling police.
“God preaches forgiveness,” Daniel Zamora told his furious father the night before his wife was charged with sexually abusing a sixth-grade student, according to video footage.
An enraged father named John fired back, labeling the sick teacher a “terrible monster”.
“Listen, I'm not going to settle this in court,” he said, according to the video.
“There is not enough money you can offer me to solve this problem. Your woman is a monster. She is a monster.”
Daniel appears unaware of the extent of his wife's disturbing behavior, but insists he is a “great teacher” and that he “made a huge mistake” by “investing” in his student. He claimed that he had done wonderful things for the children of Many years as an educator.
“Your wife decided to become a monster and prey on children. She mentally scarred my son,” the boy's father replied, and the husband, unaware of this, told his father I asked him to explain what he meant.
The emotional call came shortly after the boy's parents began monitoring the boy's phone with an app and discovered lewd text messages indicating a sexual relationship between them.
The victim told investigators that the then-married 27-year-old teacher at Las Brisas Academy Elementary School in Goodyear and the victim's 11-year-old friend were the “perpetrators” and had sex with her several times in her car and classroom. he stated. According to the documentary, he sometimes kept a “watch”.
Zamora, 33, also fondled the young victim in the back of the classroom while other students watched an educational video.
“Really like you, please make me sexier every day lol,” she told the teen in a racy text message, the doctor revealed.
“I want to fuck you, I just didn't have enough then, baby,” the boy replied.
The documentary also includes body camera footage of Zamora's arrest and police interrogation, as well as interviews with parents, witnesses and school administrators in the hours before the teacher's arrest.
The footage also reveals text messages between Daniel Zamora and his wife, in which the blindly devoted husband urges his wife to cry, apologize and be helpless under interrogation.
“Please do not acknowledge any relationship,” he texted his wife.
“Because we both know that it doesn't exist and that nothing happened. It's just a stupid fantasy sentence that's gone too far.”
Zamora was sentenced to 20 years in prison in July 2019 after pleading guilty to sexual conduct with a minor and reduced charges of child sexual abuse and public indecency.
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The victim's family filed a civil lawsuit against the Liberty Elementary School District and Zamora's husband, saying they knew about the sexual abuse before it became public.
The complaint also accused her husband of not reporting the abuse to authorities after learning of it. He settled the case for an undisclosed amount in 2019.
In May 2020, Zamora filed for divorce from her husband of four years, claiming that their relationship was “irreparably broken.”
After her arrest, Zamora told police she feared for her safety in prison, while sharing her love for her then-husband.
“I'm still little, they're going to tear me apart,” Zamora yelled at investigators, according to the footage.
“I have the best husband in the world.”
