RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A California woman who confronted a former teacher who allegedly sexually abused her as a student, and posted a video of the conversation on YouTube, has inspired a second victim to come forward.
Jamie Carrillo recorded a telephone conversation with Andrea Cardosa, a Alhambra school administrator who Carrillo says sexually abused her for several years, beginning when she was a 12-year-old student at Chemawa Middle School in Riverside, according to media reports.
Carrillo then posted a video of the emotional conversation on YouTube, and it quickly went viral.
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“You know that I am completely messed up? That I have so many issues because of you?” Carillo asked Cardosa in the video.
“I only – I just wanted to help you,” Cardosa responds.
Now, after the video created a media firestorm, a second alleged victim has come forward and other details are emerging about Cardosa, who has since resigned from the Alhambra school district.
“The new claim comes from an unidentified victim and alleges that Cardosa molested the student while serving as a temporary teacher at Riverside High School in California, which she left in 1999,” SmashPipe.com reports.
“Cardosa has not been located since last Friday … and she has not been charged with any crimes,” according to the news site.
ABC reports that Cardosa resigned from Riverside High School in 1999, but school officials won’t discuss the reason why, although that’s about the time the alleged molestations occurred.
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Carrillo’s attorney, David Ring, told the media at a press conference Monday that Cardosa was investigated for the alleged abuse of Carillo in 1999, but was allowed to quietly resign with a positive recommendation from the district instead of facing criminal or disciplinary action, the LA Times reports.
“They call this ‘passing the trash,’” Ring said.
Carrillo contends Cardosa continued to molest her until she graduated from high school, and drove a wedge between the teen and her family.
“She told me that my family didn’t love me. That nobody cared about me, that she was my only friend and the only person who cared about me,” Carrillo said at the press conference, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Alhambra school officials told the newspaper that school staff received an email with a link to the video Friday, and immediately contacted Alhambra police, who verified Carrillo’s accusations before forwarding the case to Riverside police.
Alhambra school officials told the newspaper that Cardosa was hired this school year based on a clean background check and “stellar recommendations.”
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