Four senior Los Angeles Unified administrators, including two principals, have been removed from their jobs pending an internal investigation into how they handled sexual misconduct allegations at an elementary school in Wilmington, the L.A. Daily News reported.

District officials confirmed that the administrators were removed from their positions Friday morning, but would not give a reason. The L.A. Times said, however, that high-level district officials confirmed the removals were part of the district's investigation into the handling of allegations against Robert Pimentel, a teacher at De La Torre Elementary School in Wilmington.

The four administrators and two principals include Linda Del Cueto, the senior instructional administrator for the North Educational Service Center in the San Fernando Valley. Del Cueto was the superintendent for a district that included Wilmington when complaints against fourth-grade teacher Pimentel arose in 2009.

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Mike Romero, head of the adult education division; David Kooper, principal at Gulf Elementary in Wilmington; and Valerie Moses, principal at Los Angeles Elementary in Harvard heights were also removed and assigned to remain at home.

Pimentel, 57, is charged with sexual misconduct involving 12 children under the age 0f 14. Pimentel is pleading not guilty to 14 felony counts of alleged child abuse that occurred between September 2011 and mid-March 2012, according to the L.A. Times. He remains in jail at a set bail of  $12-million.

From the L.A. Daily News:

"In 2009, Del Cueto was the superintendent for the local district that included Wilmington, and Romero and Moses oversaw clusters of elementary schools in the region. At the time, Kooper was chief of staff to Harbor Area school board member Richard Vladovic. Before he joined the school board, Vladovic had served as local superintendent for that district and was the one who promoted Hinojosa to her principal's job at De La Torre.

L.A. Unified officials were apparently aware of the allegations against Pimentel beginning in 2002, as well as in 2008. Hinojosa and Del Cueto were among several other school administrators who attended an October 2009 meeting where parents came forward and said Pimentel had molested their daughters.

 According to attorneys, Del Cueto was involved in a mediation between parents and former De La Torre principal Irene L. Hinojosa, who was also aware of the sexual abuse allegations.

Both Hinojosa and Pimentel resigned last year.

The other administrators removed from their positions were also aware of the sexual abuse allegations in some way or another, according to parents and the prosecuting attorneys.

Romero is under scrutiny for mishandling claims against Pimento during an earlier period, and sources say a parent complained to Kooper either by phone or email about principal Hinojosa's lack of action against Pimentel.

In March 2012, L.A. Unified announced a new mandate that schools must notify all parents within 72 hours if a teacher is removed from a classroom due to sexual abuse allegations with students. The mandate came after a slew of sexual abuse cases arose in 2011, including the high-profile Miramonte Elementary case.

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Superintendent John Deasy ordered all schools to submit, and re-submit, every complaint against a teacher for sexual abuse to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing over the past four years.

The superintendent suspended Hinojosa last March in the midst of other sexual abuse cases in L.A. Unified, and after the Miramonte scandal, when he learned she had failed to act on the 2002 allegations against Pimentel.

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