Posted on 11/22/2005 11:05:28 AM PST by Rodney King
NOVEMBER 22--In a sweetheart plea deal, a former Florida middle school teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old male student escaped a jail term today. Debra Lafave, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and was sentenced to three years of community control, or house arrest, and ordered to register as a sex offender. Lafave's plea came on the eve of trial and was approved by the teen victim and his family (in a court affidavit filed today, the boy's mother wrote that a trial would "negatively affect my son's emotional and psychological well-being"). Lafave, who will serve seven years probation following her house arrest term, was facing a maximum of 30 years in prison. A probable cause affidavit prepared by the Marion County Sheriff's Office details the predatory behavior (in her classroom, an Isuzu SUV, and her Tampa-area home) of Lafave, who is pictured below in police booking photos. A supplemental report from the Temple Terrace Police Department (which you can find here) included the boy's graphic account of his trysts last year with Lafave. "With about a week left in school she became affectionate," he told cops. (15 pages)
What punishment would a male teacher have received?
As Johnny Cash would say
Life Without Parole
Does this mean the boy can't brag to his friends anymore about banging a 24 year old hottie when he was only 14?
She's not so hot without her clown makeup. If I were a guy, I'd avoid her like the plague. What a scuzzbag!
And some 4o something just got 30 years for doing it with her sons friends?? Why the huge difference?
Her lawyer should be very pleased; he told the media she was too pretty to be in prison.
She was ugly.
I can tell you're not a guy!
One sick lady. She was hired by the school district to a position of trust and authority and she abused that trust.
Honestly, would this be the woman you'd want to spend your life with? Have chilren with? Dude, your standards are way too low! Trust me, you can do a LOT better than that scummy loser.
And I still say she's nothin' to look at. She's creepy!
Former middle school teacher Debra Lafave leaves the Hillsborough County Courthouse Tuesday morning Nov. 22, 2005, after pleading guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery. Lafave, 25, whose sexual liaisons with a 14-year-old middle school student made tabloid headlines, avoided prison as part of a plea agreement reached Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
NO...
But I always had fun with the Miss Wrongs before Miss Right came along (23 years ago).
She looks sweet to me. Crazy, but sweet.
I wish I had your meds. These women are actually victims of reverse discrimination from retrograde feminist prosecutors. Their position is they couldn't convict men who statutory rape juvenile girls if they didn't go after women who have sex with young boys. Their real agenda is to try to force upon the people their fallacious claim that there are no real irreducible differences between the sexes.
Geez. Where was she when I was 14? As soon as I finished my paper route, we would sneak upstairs at a buddy's house and look through his Playboy magazines under the bed. Couple of times I damm near exploded on the spot.
A 25 year-old broad like that would have made those years a little easier for all of little punks.
Some guys get all the breaks.
DA740
I hear ya!
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