GLENDORA – Two Glendora High School graduates have talked to Glendora police officers about a former teacher, whom they accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with each of them when they were minors.

Police investigated the allegations of one young woman and presented their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which declined to file charges in December because the one-year statute of limitations had expired, according to Glendora police Lt. Brian Summers.

One of the women, 20-year-old Amy McElroy, says her former teacher Paul Zigan engaged in unwanted physical contact and also sent her inappropriate texts and emails over the summer in 2007. She said she also babysat for the teacher and his wife while in high school.

The other woman, a 19-year-old who declined to give her name, said she ended all contact with Zigan after he sent her a late-night text in 2009 asking her what she was wearing. On several occasions, that woman babysat for the high school teacher and his wife. She graduated from Glendora High in 2010.

While the 19-year-old told her parents immediately after receiving the late-night text and wrote a letter to the school district, McElroy didn’t break her silence until this past summer when she filed a report with the Glendora Police Department.

When a reporter visited Zigan at Glendora High School on Monday, he declined to comment.

McElroy says that although it took her years to come to grips with what took place and it’s too late to seek legal remedies, she felt it was her responsibility to inform current students.

“I will do whatever I can that is legal to get him out of there, or at least to inform those girls that they are in danger,” the UCLA student said. “I don’t think it’s fair for them to be in (the classroom) blind.”

The school district forwarded the allegations to the Glendora Police Department in late July and the police report was taken shortly after, Summers said.

He declined to release results of the department’s investigation because formal charges were not filed.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office couldn’t confirm the declination to file charges because that information is not considered public after a 60-day period, according to spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales.

Summers said McElroy was the only person to file a complaint about the teacher, though officers did make contact with the 19-year-old woman as part of their investigation.

Glendora Unified School District officials would not say if they had investigated or disciplined Zigan, but confirmed that he is still teaching at Glendora High School.

“It’s been our practice in the past that any allegation of employee misconduct, we forward those allegations immediately to Glendora police,” said GUSD Director of Personnel Dominic DiGrazia.

According to the district’s response to a Public Records Act request submitted by this newspaper, there have been no “reportable acts of teacher misconduct” in Glendora Unified since the 2006-07 school year.

School districts are required to report allegations to the state’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing under specified conditions, according to the response.

The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which reviews all complaints from school districts regarding allegations of teacher misconduct, did not conduct a review of Zigan’s credential between 2009 and January 2012, according to official documents.

McElroy said her relationship with the teacher began innocently in 2007, during the summer after her freshman year. Their correspondence started after McElroy wrote the teacher a letter thanking him for helping her with her studies during the school year. That summer, she said she visited Zigan’s Glendora High School classroom because a friend had summer school classes.

Zigan, who teaches history, told McElroy that she smelled good and that he loved her and once had the teen girl sit on his lap after a summer school class, according to the police report. He wanted her to help him program a cell phone, according to the report.

McElroy, a high school valedictorian, also told police the teacher groped her, kissed her on the cheek and would give her hugs lasting up to 15 minutes, according to the police report.

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