The King County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking the arrest and extradition of a former French Immersion School of Washington second-grade teacher on two counts of child molestation, stemming from allegations she groped the breasts of at least two 8-year-old girls prior to her termination.

Florence Fournier-Montgieux, 31, was a visiting teacher through an exchange program partnership between the Bellevue school and Embassy of France, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court, until her termination in February for hitting students with notebooks and being verbally abusive toward them. A police report states two 8-year-old girls, who had been students of Fournier-Montgieux, reported in May the French national had felt their chests under their shirts on several occasions while at the school. A mother of one of the alleged victims told police “other parents completely dismissed the allegation and believed Florence did nothing wrong,” the report states.

Fournier-Montgieux returned to France in March, and the King County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking her extradition back to the United States to face two counts of first-degree child molestation.

KCPO spokesman Dan Donohoe told the Reporter it will be up to the Department of Justice and French authorities to determine whether she can be brought back. France has an extradition treaty with the United States, however, the country has been historically reluctant to place its citizens into the criminal justice system here. The police report states French Immersion School Director Veronique Dussud did notify the French embassy of the sexual abuse allegations against Fournier-Montgieux.