Posted on 12/06/2007 12:18:24 PM PST by Snickering Hound
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested on charges of violating her probation, state records show.
According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other subjects with a teenage waitress at a restaurant where both worked. One of the terms of her probation was that she was not allowed to have unsupervised contact with minors without permission.
Lafave, 26, is serving three years of house arrest and seven years of probation after pleading guilty to having sex with the boy in a classroom and her home in June 2004.
She was arrested Tuesday morning and released from jail on her promise to appear in court. It was not immediately clear when that hearing would occur.
Defense attorney John Fitzgibbons said he was disappointed that Lafave's probation officer ordered her arrest for what he called an "insignificant" violation. He said Lafave and the 17-year-old girl had a "typical workplace conversation that women have with their women colleagues."
"It was a workplace friendship — no more, no less," he said.
State attorney's office spokeswoman Pam Bondi said prosecutors would not comment on Lafave's arrest until the hearing.
Probation records show Lafave worked at a Tampa-area restaurant until last month, when her probation officer ordered her to quit. She now works as a receptionist at her mother's barbershop.
Fitzgibbons said he and his client were surprised by the arrest. "I don't think anyone felt this was a huge issue," he said.
He said Lafave has done so well on her first two years of house arrest that he plans to ask a judge to convert the final year to straight probation, which is less restrictive.
Other terms of her probation include sex offender treatment, random drug testing and 200 hours of community service, which she has completed.
Lafave pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery in November 2005. She could face up to 15 years in prison for a probation violation.
Yeah the problem with her being soooo not guilty is that no red-blood male child or man would be able to say no, and they ALL want it.
That's funny, you forgot your sarcasm tag. LOL
She always reminds me of a Robert Palmer song. (She’s so fine, ain’t no tellin’ where the money went. Simply irresistable).
Nein, mein Herr.
What I said, using the German because of their reputation for various varieties of statism, was to draw attention to your blind acceptance of law. because it is law.
Did nothing of either the non-violent protests or Nuremberg ever get taught in any of your classes? Did none of your educators ever mention America as a land of principles versus the European history of a being lands of law?
Was nothing mentioned of the dangers of allowing legal rationalism (Google it) to supplant American historic experience/success as a land of principles rather than a land of laws as legal rationalism postulates?
Well, they are structured so that 16 & 17 year olds aren’t in jeopardy. but we have run into situations where for example a boy turns 18 and the girl is 17 and they get arrested and he carries a statutory rape conviction around for the rest of his life, not to mention going on certain sex offender registries.
There are some things that are very wrong about our laws, but most of us on this site would agree that just because they’re going to do it anyway is not a reason to condone bad behavior.
“What I said, using the German because of their reputation for various varieties of statism, was to draw attention to your blind acceptance of law. because it is law.”
Its a law I agree with. Are you saying its ok for adults to raid middle schools for their latest sexual conquest?
I agree...... thank you.
#1 - Ral Raupman
#2 - Obsessive-Compulsive government employees cain't use their blank taxpayer-funded checkbook to prosecute if the "victim" is 18 years old.
Ahhh, so if this beautiful woman had seduced you and she was into S&M or had some other really nasty sexual fetishes you wouldn't have felt violated? You are making a blanket statement based on how hot this woman is and are acting as if every sexual encounter is a light-hearted romp in the hay.
Hell, I’d feel weird if my wife did any of that stuff to me, and we’ve been married fifteen years. I really am kind of stuffy about sex these days.
When I was a teenage boy, however, the mere fact that a grownup woman was after me would have been enough. Most teenage boys have serious teacher crushes at some point; to have one of these fantasies come true in real life would have been like winning a lottery jackpot. My ninth-grade science teacher, for example, was the talk of the locker room. She was so cute and voluptuous that even if she’d offered to give one of us a kimchee enema, I have no doubt every one of us would have taken her up on it, if only for the chance to see her utterly spectacular body.
Again, I’m not saying that any of this is morally right or anything. I’m just telling you how it is. Teenage boys are just like that. Have we learned nothing from thirty years of Van Halen?
“Are you saying its ok for adults to raid middle schools for their latest sexual conquest?”
I did not so say, not could that have been assumed from what I posted.
What I did say, was that to assume that a teen aged boy is somehow “damaged” by sex with a teacher who all agree is very sexually desirable (note I said nothing of her other lacks, judgement being the first issue) is a stretch worthy of the comic book character “PlasticMan”.
When the law is used by FemiNazis, lawyers, and the child advocacy community to criminalize human behavior which has been well recorded at least as far back as the time when Moses wrote the basics of what became Mosaic Law, then the law has fallen into the hands of asses.
That, Dear Sir, is how and why the cartoon of nine robed judges behind a court bench came to be the symbol of “assinine”.
When “Da Law” mandates the shenanignas this case has produced, hte resulting affront to common sense degrades the essential respect for the law which must be a part of this Republic if we are to remain free.
Despite “Da Law” and the abovementioned assorted, sordid conspiracy of socialists, there is a difference between male and female.
This case is a perfect case in point of why the socialism driven, social engineering of the Democrapic Party, has made the courts a source of jokes for the late night show hosts.
If a commonly agreed upon young female teacher allows a callow youth to mount her, that may be said to have convicted her of the charge of stupidity, adultry, and baaaad judgement.
It should not be used as an excuse to allow the 900# gorilla of government to create a legal circus which can only cause all who watch to lose respect for their government.
That loss is the goal of the Gramscian impaired, you know.
Read Antonia Gramsci and I am sure you will see his communism stained hands in this circus, busy guiding the hands of the consortium of Nasties I defined earlier in this post.
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