AUBURN – Former school teacher James Raymond was arrested Tuesday, charged with approaching a child at Wal-Mart in violation of bail conditions.

Already facing seven counts of touching children, the former Auburn music teacher was returned to the Androscoggin County Jail. He was charged with violating conditions of release.

An off-duty police detective shopping at Wal-Mart on Sunday reported he had seen Raymond speaking with a child under the age of 16.

With that information, police asked for help from Wal-Mart and were provided with store surveillance video footage. Police said that footage shows the 27-year-old Raymond with a child at the store.

A warrant was obtained and on Tuesday, police went to Raymond’s home at 115 Cook St. and arrested him for violating court-imposed conditions.

Since October, Raymond has been forbidden to have contact with children under the age of 18 except for family members. Those conditions were set after Raymond was charged with three counts of unlawful sexual touching and four counts of assault.

He was suspended and later resigned from his job after local police investigated a complaint by a 7-year-old girl at Park Avenue Elementary School, where he was a music teacher. He also taught at East Auburn Community School.

The girl reported to school staff in October that Raymond slid his hand up her skirt and touched her buttocks through her underwear.

According to court records, Raymond told police that he sometimes put his hand up the skirts of young girls in his class, that he had an attraction to female pupils from kindergarten age to third grade.

As the police investigation continued, police said, more victims were identified and more charges were added.

Raymond told police that 95 percent of the time he was satisfied to get a hug from students, but the remaining 5 percent of the time he sometimes failed to control his urges, according to the court documents.

In March, Raymond asked that he be allowed contact with children other than family members if he got written permission from their parents. The request was denied.

The charge for which he was arrested on Tuesday alleges that Raymond had contact with an underage person and that he went to Wal-Mart knowing that children would be there, both in violation of conditions set when he was released from jail.

Raymond was expected to remain at the Androscoggin County Jail until he appears in court again later this week.