Working in a restaurant?.................
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.
How many times are they going to arrest that poor girl this week?
Not guilty!
I think she deserves to be spanked.
Working in a restaurant?.................
This girl is going to be 18 in two weeks.
Check out the optical illusion in #5. See if you can spot the motorcycle.........
LOL!
What motorcycle?
I still think she needs to be spanked.
I would think that a person on probation would adhere to the terms of the probation.
Would you feel the same way if the original offense had been a man having sex with a 14 yo student?
This is just so stupid. Why are they wasting time and resources on persecuting this woman? What teenage boy would not treasure the memory of sex with this hottie for the rest of his life? There was no “crime” here.
Oy, not this again: MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT THE SAME.
Get it?
Someone’s got to do it.
its a shame that women get off so easily. they need ot make an example out of someone and get the same treatment men do.
rape is rape. doesnt matter what gender the offender is.
No its not a strip club. but that may be her next job.
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