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.
You’re an idiot who evidently cannot overcome his teenage fantasies. She raped the kid. She abused her position as a teacher to do it. She deserves prison time regardless of how pretty she is.
Don’t know what world you are from, BUT there is no possible way ANY teenage boy was raped by this girl!! Get real.
I’m with the other posts that this biy will have max bragging right til he’s assumed room temp.
“Boys and girls are psychologically different. “
Yes they are; girls mature psychologically faster.
“But as a former 14 year old boy, I think I can say with authority that I myself would not have felt in the least bit violated had a teacher like this one seduced me.”
And as a 14 year old boy you are not mature enough to make that decision. By LAW Also in practice.
“Boys do not associate sex with love; to them, sex is conquest, and “conquering” a grown woman is the ultimate sign of masculinity.”
So the middle age adolescents on here are trying to establish their masculinity?
” But the simple fact is that, for most teenage boys, being seduced by a lithe honey blonde would be a dream come true, not a nightmare”
Drinking a keg is also a dream for young kids. The point is we are supposed to protect kids while they learn and become adults. What happens when he gets HPV or gets her pregnant? Rape is rape and condoning it is contemptible.
Why aren’t teachers going for 18 year olds? Probably because most 18 year olds are mature enough to know they don’t need a middle age sex partner.
Then no one under the age of 18 should ever be charged as an adult for any crime that they have ever committed while a teenager if they aren't capable of understanding the ramifications of those actions.
“Don’t know what world you are from, BUT there is no possible way ANY teenage boy was raped by this girl!! Get real.”
He was 14 and she was 24 at the time of the crime. Thats statutory rape.
“I’m with the other posts that this biy will have max bragging right til he’s assumed room temp.”
Hopefully he will mature more than it appears several people here have.
True. But take these comments with a huge barrel of salt. They are mostly in jest and do not really reflect the writer's opinion in reality. If it were their son, the comments would be a lot different, I'm sure.......
“True. But take these comments with a huge barrel of salt. They are mostly in jest and do not really reflect the writer’s opinion in reality. If it were their son, the comments would be a lot different, I’m sure..”
Probably true but there are people in this country working to reduce the age of consent. Their ideal is a bathhouse full of 12 and 13 year olds.
I’d prefer to give my children time to mature and learn what is best for themselves and not subject them to the perverted fantasies of some freak.
Except for when it comes to crime and punishment, in which case women should be treated dramically less harsh than men for the same crimes.
Must be nice to be an attractive American female these days. Every advantage under the sun, with no consequences or accountability!
I get a kick out of the exhusband who has made money off of her by writing a book and now back on all the usual Nancy Grace/Greta shows spouting how she should have not been given a light sentence! He’s making off of her. He should want her out of jail! What a hypocrit!
“He’s making off of her. He should want her out of jail! What a hypocrit!”
Originally I felt sorry for him but have come around to think they were meant for each other.
We here a lot of it here since its local.
lol... You don’t really expect anyone to take you seriously do you?
It wasn’t all that long ago that marriage between people of 14, 15 years was not considered unusual, but encouraged. Of course we had a rural agrarian economy and needed more help on the farms, plus people died rather early in life as compared to today................
“lol... You don’t really expect anyone to take you seriously do you?”
She’s the one in jail so I would assume the Judge agrees with me. The kids parents agree with me. Oh and the law agrees with me.
But the strip club crowd apparently agrees with you. I could give a rats behind what you think.
“It wasn’t all that long ago that marriage between people of 14, 15 years was not considered unusual, but encouraged. Of course we had a rural agrarian economy and needed more help on the farms, plus people died rather early in life as compared to today”
Yes it was once accepted. In many states its still legal to marry with the parents permission.
One major difference in those cases is marriage and not casual sex. In those days it was also not uncommon for the father to respond with a shotgun.
I chased my daughters last boyfriend off with an iron pipe.....
“I could give a rats behind what you think.”
likewise.
This incident will renew interest in his book and get him more facetime on TV, so he's in a win-win situation.......
That not birds, it's the echoes of thoughts bouncing around an empty void looking for some place to land.............
Hey she crushed his manhood, what man could survive his wife preferring a 14 yr old.....yikes.
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