Posted on 07/08/2004 5:33:18 AM PDT by presidio9
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 authorities Monday, accompanied by her attorney.
Yes, and the truth is,.. it has a good chance of destroying his entire life with how he relates to women.. He may never look at his own mother or any other loving woman with the same trusting innocence again. Not what you would think of on first blush, it is a very, very sad situation..
i bet the poor newlywed husband feels pretty abused....
She looks so normal.
She wasn't a good role model. Took away the boy's innocence and cheated on her husband. I don't care how beautiful a woman is; a man respects her when she says "no" to his advances when its inappropriate. A man wants to look up to a woman. And there is the husband. I don't know if she was getting back for an affair or neglect in her marriage or simply because she could but she wasn't really thinking about her marriage vows when she was getting it on with a teenage boy in various compromising situations. A marriage is reposed on trust after all but unfortunately sometimes human nature gets in the way of good intentions.
Oh, to have had a junior high teacher like her. She could have really straightened me out.
The face that launched a thousand ships. One look and you know she was born to break men's hearts...
She could have straightened Morford out.
....you noticed that too.....
Always has been. Dealers, blockade runners, cattlemen, con-artists, foreigners, tourists, real estate scammers, swamp dogs, crackers - they're all here, always have been.
You're probably right on that count, because I would find her guilty of statutory rape. I find this women, and what she did to a child, disgusting.
I'm no prude, but this is just not right. How would you men with daughters feel if a hunky male teacher did this to your 14 year old girl?
I had a teacher who was in Playboy.
Agreed. A hunky guy would be lynched doing it to a teenage girl but boys are expected to sow their oats and become a man. The old double standard.
I would kill him.
But in case you haven't noticed, there is a difference between males and females. A male reaches his sexual peak at a much younger age than a female.
I'm sorry, but you DO have to admit there is a double standard in this area....
Hey, I posted a Kenneth Starr editorial on Clinton from today's Wall St Journal fully 20 mins before this and thus far this thread has received 5 times the number of posts.
Me too, except it was 25 years previously, and she hadn't aged terribly well.
I had one who was in Playgirl.
Nice trick. Now that she has turned herself into "the authorities", will she have the responsibility of handling her own case? And how does one change oneself from a lowly teacher's aid into "the authorities"? What was her lawyer's role in this transformation?
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