Posted on 04/26/2006 7:58:45 AM PDT by SmithL
SEVIERVILLE - His mother suspected something "weird" was going on when she caught her son on the computer at 1 a.m. chatting with his teacher.
When asked what they were doing, the boy said he and Kristi Dance Oakes were "studying."
During the summer of 2004, Oakes drove the boy to and from his job at a Pigeon Forge amusement park, where she also was employed, because his car had broken down, the mother said.
On June 23, 2004, a police officer at 11:30 p.m. found a topless Oakes performing oral sex on the 16-year-old boy in her parked car near Douglas Dam.
"I put my trust in this woman," the mother said.
Oakes, 33, was charged with statutory rape. She admitted the act in a statement entered in court but was seeking pretrial diversion, a move that would have kept the conviction from ever being entered against her if she behaved during a probationary period.
On Tuesday, the mother received the satisfaction of knowing Oakes will stand trial.
Sevier County Circuit Court Judge Dick Vance denied Oakes' bid for pretrial diversion and set a June 21 trial date.
"I'm pleased with the judge's decision because I don't want her to do this to another child," the mother said.
District Attorney General Al Schmutzer Jr. had previously denied Oakes' petition for the judicial break. A state appellate court in January ordered him to reconsider his decision.
On Tuesday Oakes' attorney, Barry Valentine, stated reasons why his client qualified for the break. She has received therapy, has not been in any trouble since the incident and moved to New Market "to get away from all this," he said.
Oakes resigned from her position as a biological sciences teacher at Seymour High School soon after the charges.
Schmutzer argued against pretrial diversion, citing a prior incident in which the Seymour High School principal gave Oakes a warning after she was caught with another male student behind a locked door at school.
Oakes violated her position of authority as a teacher, Schmutzer said.
"A position of trust is something you hold in the community and you're held to a higher standard when you do something wrong," he said.
In making his decision, Vance opined Tuesday that although the incident that led to the statutory rape charge happened when school was not in session, Oakes was still an authority figure and breached her position of trust.
"Prosecution of this charge is warranted as a deterrent to other teachers who may similarly be tempted to be engaged in relationship with other students," he said.
Oakes, a married mother, is free on bond and could face a one- to two-year prison sentence.
Valentine declined comment Tuesday.
The boy turned 18 in March and is joining the Marines, the mother said.
Since you don't have to see her face given what she was doing, I will let this one slide.... Other way around, string her up ;-)
Statutory rape for getting a BJ off your teacher? How odd.
I would've thought a medal and the undying admiration of your classmates would be more appropriate! ;-)
When you're 16, a knotted fencepost looks good.
exactly HOW were they "teacher and student" on Jun 23, while both were employed at a commercial enterprise when school was not in session?
Jeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzz...........
Where were these teachers when I was 16??????
Hot enough for the kid.
"When you're 16 a knotted fencepost looks good."Come on now.You're exaggerating,just a liitle bit?
Does this qualify the kid to be a Democratic President?
Guilty.
Yea ugly teachers blowing you really impresses other kids...
Speak for yourself....even some 16 year olds have standards
The kid needs more help then her
http://www.wkrn.com/news/pamela-rogers-faces-new-accusations
NOT GUILTY..... Just too hot for it to be a crime.
heh
http://www.badjocks.com/pamela-myspace.htm
mirror of her myspace page.
I'd go Chuck Norris on this teacher and all the others that commit these crimes on kids if I could get my lunch-hooks on them.
Excellent question! This sudden rash of female teachers doing their 16 year-old boy students has left me both amazed and jealous. Why were my teachers so prim, proper and ugly, while today's seem hot, ready and willing? There is a definite sadness to being born too early. :)
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