Arrested: Andrea Cardosa, 40, turned herself into police after a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Andrea Cardosa, 40, was arrested Monday when she turned herself into the Riverside County Sheriff's Office - more than two weeks after she was publicly accused by Jamie Carrillo.
Police began investigating Cardosa, an assistant principal at Alhambra High School in Los Angeles County, Ms Carrillo - now 28 - posted a YouTube video in which she accused Cardosa of abusing her for several years, starting when she was a 14-year-old student in 1999.
The video included a recording of a phone call in which Cardosa appears to admit having a sexual relationship with Ms Carrillo when she was teenage student.
Ms Carrillo posted the clip on January 17 and it made national headlines. Cardosa resigned from her job at the school the same day.
Since then, a second former student of Cardosa's - 18-year-old Brianna Govea - came forward to say she was sexually assaulted, a well. That abuse, Ms Govea claims, took place from 2009 until 2010.
Police say that after her arrest, Cardosa admitted to abusing Ms Carrillo. It's not clear whether she talked about the allegations levied by Ms Govea.
© KTLA'I want her to pay': Jamie Carillo says she came forward only because her daughter is now the same age she was when the abuse began.
Ms Carrillo said she came forward now because her own daughter is 12 - the same age she was when she first met Cardosa. She said she couldn't bear the thought of someone like Cardosa preying on her daughter.
Ms Carrillo said the assaults took place when Cardosa was her women's basketball coach in middle school.
The January 17 YouTube video titled 'a call to my childhood rapist teacher' has been viewed almost 1million times before it was taken down.
'I kept thinking about my own kids and how I wouldn't want anything to happen to them,' Ms Carrillo said during a press conference shortly after the video was made public.
Carillo claims the abuse started in 1999, when she was only 14-years-old and in eighth grade.
'I was only 12 years old when I met you. Do you realize that you brainwashed me and you manipulated me and that what you did was wrong?' She said in the video.
'Yes. And I regret it... I just wanted to help you,' the shamed educator responded.
'How is having a sexual relationship with a student helping?' Carillo fired back.
'That wasn't anything that I intended,' said Cardosa. 'And I didn't know what happened.'
'You should be so ashamed and so disgusted with yourself,' said Carillo.
'I am. I am,' Cardosa admitted.
'You ruined my life. You ruined my childhood. Do you realize that?' Carillo said aggressively. 'You sicken me. You sicken me. And every day when I think about what you did, you sicken me.
'I regret it every day,' the woman laments. 'Every day.'
© FacebookSpurred forward: Carrillo's YouTube video (below) encouraged Brianna Govea (above) to come forward with her abuse allegations.
Govea's alleged abuse took place as recently as three years ago, she charged, while she attended Thomas Rivera Middle School, in Perris.
The young woman accuses the woman of 'grooming' her with candy, lunch trips and movie tickets, by calling her special and making sexual advances before finally sexually assaulting her.
'I'm not trying to hide my identity, I'm going to be brave,' she told KNBC. 'Tonight, all I want to say is when I first heard that video, there was no doubt about it. My world spun because I can see myself in Jamie.'
'This alleged action took place in another school district, without any report prior to her employment to the Alhambra Unified School District,' she added.
Govea filed lawsuits against two separate school districts.
Cardosa is expected to be arraigned Thursday on five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and 11 other counts of abuse.
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