Los Angeles Unifed responded Friday to the revelation that another teacher, this one at a Pacoima elementary school, faces charges of sexual abuse by condemning the allegations and saying the teacher had been removed from the classroom before his arrest.
Paul Chapel, a third-grade teacher at Telfair Elementary School, had been charged with 15 counts of lewd acts and continuous sexual abuse with three girls and one boy, each younger than 14, between Sept. 13, 2010, and April 15, 2011, according to a Sept. 28 complaint from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
The district, in a statement released Friday, said that it learned "complaints against the teacher were lodged in the spring of last year," adding that Chapel was removed in April. The district did not disclose the amount of time that elapsed between learning of the allegations and his removal.
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