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"Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?"Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with their students, such as Debra Lafave (pictured). The article is "Why Did the Teacher Have Sex With Her Student?"Jay writes: My wife and I both had problems with the article, but it was interesting that we had two different problems. Here are some of...

TAMPA - Teacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave gets to spend her final three months of house arrest on probation instead. A judge ordered Tuesday that the 27-year-old former middle school teacher will be released from house arrest on July 11. She'll serve straight probation instead, which is less restrictive and doesn't require her to wear a monitoring bracelet. She was sentenced in November 2005 to three years' house arrest and seven years of probation for having sex with a 14-year-old student. Prosecutor Mike Sinacore objects to Tuesday's decision. He says the victim's family objects, too.

I've little sympathy for Debra Lafave (pictured above), who at 23 statutorily raped a 14-year-old boy. She got the female sentencing discount and did not go to jail because she's a woman. A five-year study conducted by a Kansas State University professor found that male teachers are likely to get 15 to 20 years in prison for sexual relations with students, whereas female teachers usually are placed on probation or go to prison for one to three years. Paul Logli, president of the National District Attorneys Association, says: "There is no question it's more likely that as a case winds...

<p>Tampa, Florida - According to records with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Debra Lafave was arrested today for violating her probation. The violation listed says she talked to a coworker who was 17 years old on various occasions.</p>

In an blockbusting EXCLUSIVE interview on Dateline NBC, correspondent Matt Lauer sat down with Debra Lafave, the 23 year-old teacher who had sex with a 14 year-old boy on several occasions which made national headlines. For some ungodly reason, NBC decided this was a groundbreaking story that needed to be told to America. I have one question… Why is Debra Lafave on television? There have been notable people who have earned the right to recognition. Sport’s heroes, movie stars, business and religious leaders, respected politicians and cultural groundbreakers have all proven worthy of the media attention paid to them. That...

Editor's note: The newest edition of Whistleblower magazine pulls the covers off the shocking number of cases of lust-filled teachers, especially women, who have sexual relations with their students. Find out more here! The father of the 14-year-old Florida boy who had sex with teacher Debra LaFave is outraged the woman is getting off the hook without any time in prison. "I think she should have gone to jail, I've stuck by that all along," said the boy's father, whose name was withheld during an interview last night on the Fox News Channel. "It's a horrible, ugly thing that she's...

Debra Lafave's charges in having sex with a minor have been dropped, and her excuse was bipolar. Was it really bipolar syndrome that coerced the sexual act, or was it a little girl dying for attention? Debra Lafave is the 25 year old school teacher who had sexual intercourse with a 14 year old boy in her classroom, her house, and even in her car. Debra was eventually apprehended and charged with statutory rape against the delinquency of a minor. The odd fact is Ms. Lafave blames a psychological disorder known as bipolar syndrome, a disorder that some would call...

State prosecutors decided Tuesday to drop charges against a former teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old 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 teen-ager 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...

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student was once the sweetheart of local Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, friends of hers told ABC Action News, and a former lesbian girlfriend of hers is now in the hospital because of the stress surrounding the case.

TAMPA - Before she could plead not guilty by reason of insanity to charges she committed lewd or lascivious battery on a teenager, Debra Lafave pleaded guilty. But, she will not go to prison. The former Greco Middle School teacher, accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy, came to a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday. As part of the agreement, Lafave, 25, will serve three years community control (house arrest), and seven years probation. The judge said Lafave could have been sentenced to decades in state prison. "I accept full responsibility for my actions," Lafave told the court. Prosecutor...

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...

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida teacher charged with having sex with a minor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior as part of a plea deal. The deal provides that Greco Middle School teacher Debra Lafave, 25, will not serve time in jail in connection with multiple sex acts with a 14-year-old student unless she violates the terms of the plea agreement, which include seven years of probation. "I accept full responsibility for my actions," Lafave said during Tuesday's trial in Tampa. "To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hell hole is...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The 24-year-old Florida middle school teacher accused of having sex with one of her students appeared in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing. Debra LaFave is accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy at least two times in Ocala, Fla.

Tampa, Florida - A Riverview woman is upset not only because her boyfriend dumped her for another woman, but because of who that woman is and the time she may spend around her child. That woman is Debra Lafave. Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. It is a confusing story that involves the ex-girlfriend of Lafave's current boyfriend, Andrew Beck. We learn about the triangle from court documents. In a motion for protection, the ex-girlfriend says Lafave came to the restaurant she works at and told her, 'I’m Andrew's first love and he would do anything...

NEW YORK If Debra Lafave is convicted of sexual misconduct and lewd exhibition, the middle school teacher will be part of a frightening trend: A report to Congress Wednesday found that one in every 10 school-age kids endures sexual misconduct by a teacher or other school employee. Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student at least five times at her home, at school and in the back of her SUV. The student identified butterfly and Chinese letter tattoos on Lafave's body for investigators. The 23-year-old reading specialist at Greco Middle School near Ocala, Fla., turned herself into...

TAMPA - Everybody knows about Debra Lafave. They know about her alleged trysts with a 14-year-old student. They even know what she was wearing that day in the portable classroom. But few know about the graphic photos police took of the former Greco Middle School teacher. On Tuesday, Lafave's attorney filed a motion to block public access to six photos taken of her last year, saying officers violated Lafave's constitutional right to privacy when they shot close-ups of her genitals. Hillsborough Circuit Judge Wayne S. Timmerman is scheduled to hear the motion next week. "We don't believe that the search...

This story gets increasingly more curious. When it broke two days ago the common comment was - this 23 year old teacher must have had severe emotional or psychological problems to be chasing 14 year old boys down to have sex with in their cousin's car. She was also newly married to a handsome husband and supposedly was a dedicated teacher. The Tampa Bay Tribune has the first of any background stories I have seen on LaFave. From initial appearances it does not seem readily obvious that she was someone who had suffered from some sort of pattern of abuse....