The news both shocked and outraged: How did a suspected child molester land a job teaching children after being fired by a different school two months earlier?

As Bay Area educators and parents wonder how Ron Guinto was hired to teach at Mira Vista Middle School in Richmond after being fired by a nearby charter school following child sex abuse allegations last fall, the answers reveal loopholes in a new state law intended to protect vulnerable students.

Guinto, 32, has pleaded not guilty to 27 charges including allegations of kidnapping, forcible lewd acts on a child, sending lewd images to a minor over the Internet, forcible oral copulation on a minor and forcible sodomy on a child while working at the charter school, Making Waves Academy.

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