A 38-year-old Bainbridge Island man was charged with second-degree child molestation Tuesday in Kitsap County District Court after police alleged he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old Bainbridge girl while living with her family as a nanny.

The man, who also works as a teacher in the Franklin Pierce School District in the Tacoma area, was arrested June 13 after an officer contacted him at Bainbridge Island Municipal Court, where the victim’s family was trying to obtain a sexual protection order against him.

The allegations of molestation were made in mid-May, when the victim’s mother told police her daughter was assaulted by the man when she was between 12 and 14 years old.

When interviewed by a member of the prosecutor’s Special Assault Unit, the victim said the man had been a nanny for the family when they lived in California.

When the family moved to Bainbridge Island, he moved in with them and continued to work as their nanny, she said.

The girl, now 16, also told authorities that he would come into her bedroom early in the morning before school and get in bed with her, and reach underneath her shirt and grope her.

It happened four times, the victim said, but stopped when she started to get up early for school to avoid him.

The teen also said the man had moved out and there had been no contact for a long time. The family thought he had moved away, until he suddenly started coming to the family’s church on Bainbridge.

At that point, the victim came forward and reported the molestation.

When contacted by police, the man asked for his attorney and would not speak to an officer.

He was booked into Kitsap County Jail June 13.

According to court documents, the man was also an adjunct instructor for Olympic College, where he teaches physical education courses. He had also been employed by the Sequim School District as an elementary teacher and a cross country coach, but left after investigations were done by the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction on complaints that he used excessive physical force against students in 2006 and 2007.

Conviction of second-degree child molestation can result in a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.