By msnbc.com news services
LOS ANGELES -- A substitute teacher in the nation's second-largest school district was investigated three times for allegations of sexual misconduct with students before he quit in 2007 and started teaching in?another district, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The teacher, identified as 45-year-old George Hernandez, was never arrested or charged in the Los Angeles Unified School District cases.
The Los Angeles Times reported?that when the third investigation was completed, Hernandez quit teaching in Los Angeles and started working for the Inglewood Unified School District.
He taught there for nearly three years before police found a videotape they say shows him molesting a second-grade girl at an Inglewood?school.
Hernandez was charged with child molestation but he fled and is considered a fugitive.
"This guy should not have been kept in the district," Kathleen Carroll, an attorney who worked for the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, told the Times on Wednesday. "This is an outrage."
In recent weeks, several Los Angeles school district employees -- including?two former Miramonte Elementary School teachers?-- have been accused of lewd conduct. One of the former teachers, Mark Berndt, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of lewd conduct involving more than 20 students.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Read NBCLosAngeles.com?s coverage on the Miramonte abuse scandal
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