Posted March 21, 200618 yr ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- State prosecutors said Tuesday they were dropping charges against a former Tampa teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student. The decision, announced hours after a judge rejected a plea deal for Debra Lafave, means the victim won't have to testify. Prosecutors and defense attorneys had urged the judge to accept the deal for the sake of the boy involved. A psychiatrist who examined the teenager told the judge at a previous hearing that the boy suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and does not want to testify. Marion County Circuit Judge Hale Stancil, however, said the lack of prison time for Lafave under the plea deal "shocks the conscience of this court," and he rejected it. Assistant State Attorney Richard Ridgway, in explaining the decision to drop the charges, said: "The court may be willing to risk the well-being of the victims in this case in order to force it to trial. I am not." Lafave, 25, already faces three years of house arrest and seven years probation in Hillsborough County, where she was charged with having sex with the same boy in a classroom and her home. She pleaded guilty November 22 to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery under a plea deal there. In Marion County, she was accused of having sex with the boy in a sport utility vehicle. Lafave said at a news conference later Tuesday that she has bipolar disorder, and her attorney said she was getting treatment. "I have a lot of things in my past that have unfortunately become public," Lafave said. Hillsborough County prosecutor Mike Sinacore has said the victim's family had anticipated a trial, but the media attention prompted the boy's mother to push for a plea deal. "There is no one that wanted to see Debra Lafave serve jail time more than myself," the boy's mother wrote in an e-mail to the Ocala Star-Banner over the weekend. But she said the welfare of her son was more important. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/21/teacher.sex.ap/index.html
March 21, 200618 yr Hahaah we had this discussion in Geography yesterday as a class with my hot Geography teacher. It was pretty ironic.
March 22, 200618 yr I'd hit it. What a whore. Why the hell didn't teachers look like that when I was in school? She can teach me. :thumbup :lol Sounds like Howard Stern. :lol
March 22, 200618 yr there is a teacher at my school that was fired from another school in broward county for sleeping with her students but the catch is that they were all 18. She now teaches at my school and is amazingly hott. Her number of Students that she has slept with is about 10 and rumor is that she had sex with a student on her desk. Im choosing not to give away the schools beacuse that could give away the person
March 22, 200618 yr Where are the pictures of her posing in a bikini sitting on a motorcycle? They were showing them all the time on the news when this first happened. She is so hot. EDIT: FOUND THE PICS!
March 22, 200618 yr Actually she technically did rape the kid. Statutory rape is still a crime and doesnt require force b ythe perp and consent on the part of the victim is irrelevant in those cases.
March 22, 200618 yr If she taught in West Virginia this wouldnt even be a problem. The bitch of all this is all of my teachers in highschool were dudes.
March 22, 200618 yr i always had the short chubby manly looking lesbians and the 300 pound tanks. yeah i didnt get laid but at least i got my education and im about to get my bachelors!!! and at the end of the day thats what really important. :banghead :banghead
March 22, 200618 yr yeah i didnt get laid but at least i got my education and im about to get my bachelors!!! and at the end of the day thats what really important. Sure, if you're gay. Or...were you on the chess team? :whistle
March 22, 200618 yr If this was a 27 year old male teacher having sex with a 14 year old girl they would have thrown the book at him. This should have been no different.
March 22, 200618 yr If this was a 27 year old male teacher having sex with a 14 year old girl they would have thrown the book at him. This should have been no different. agreed and well put. Sexism goes against men more then women in today's society lock her asre up
March 22, 200618 yr If this was a 27 year old male teacher having sex with a 14 year old girl they would have thrown the book at him. This should have been no different. agreed and well put. Sexism goes against men more then women in today's society lock her asre up Agreed. & just to make sure she behaves, I'll spend the first night in her cell with her, as an observer only of course.... :whistle
March 22, 200618 yr I want that video HC, so I can sell it on the internet. I'd be on her like stink on a monkey.
March 22, 200618 yr If this was a 27 year old male teacher having sex with a 14 year old girl they would have thrown the book at him. This should have been no different. agreed and well put. Sexism goes against men more then women in today's society lock her asre up It's amazing how many "I'd do her" comments followed, too. Even this post alone as garnered two of those. She's a hot woman. So freaking what? They're everywhere. She's still a child molester. Why is it sick and cruel when a man does it to kids, girls or boys, and then when a woman does it, who is hot (which is where the interest/story lies), it's awesome? "Oh, man, I'd pay hard cash to see her do it with little boys and girls." You sick f***s.
March 22, 200618 yr It's not like he was six. 14 is hardly a child. I'm pretty sure most of us wouldn't have been complaining if at 14 a hot 25 yr old was all over us. ABCNews.com is reporting that France thinks this is no big deal...which makes me wonder what the hell is going on over there in middle school.
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