Posted on 11/22/2005 11:05:28 AM PST by Rodney King
NOVEMBER 22--In a sweetheart plea deal, a former Florida middle school teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old male student escaped a jail term today. Debra Lafave, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and was sentenced to three years of community control, or house arrest, and ordered to register as a sex offender. Lafave's plea came on the eve of trial and was approved by the teen victim and his family (in a court affidavit filed today, the boy's mother wrote that a trial would "negatively affect my son's emotional and psychological well-being"). Lafave, who will serve seven years probation following her house arrest term, was facing a maximum of 30 years in prison. A probable cause affidavit prepared by the Marion County Sheriff's Office details the predatory behavior (in her classroom, an Isuzu SUV, and her Tampa-area home) of Lafave, who is pictured below in police booking photos. A supplemental report from the Temple Terrace Police Department (which you can find here) included the boy's graphic account of his trysts last year with Lafave. "With about a week left in school she became affectionate," he told cops. (15 pages)
All Freeper babes are hot, didn't you know that?
Or 28...
If my daughter said a male teacher was hot, I'd say fine that's typical teenage crush-but the moment I heard he was laying a hand on her or speaking to her innapropriately, I'd castrate the bastard.
The evidence of a loss of virginity is always expressed by a permanent change in the physicality of the female. A change in physicality is almost always associated with a psychological change (would any of the ladies on this thread like to refute this implication?). A fourteen-year-old is a minor, and is not generally viewed in the eyes of the law as a responsible party to consensual sex with a person having attained adulthood. As such, in a case like this, the adult male is legally responsible for the change in status from virgin to sexually experienced female. Is a 14-year-old girl psychologically prepared for this change in both her physical and psychological makeup?
Conversely, a 14-year-old male person experiences no obvious physical changes (unless the female is a carrier of an STD) when he loses his virginity to an adult female. His physicality remains constant and any psychological change is less pronounced as a result.
The adult male who has sex with a 14-year-old female runs the risk of getting her pregnant, in which case the minor female will be faced with a difficult decision: Carry the baby to term or have an abortion. Either decision will be life-altering in the extreme and the adult male will have been legally responsible for the state of affairs within which the young lady finds herself. The 14-year old male having sex with an adult female runs no such risk: The adult female may become pregnant as a result of her liason, but she will herself be responsible for the state of affairs.
These are my thoughts. I see the adult-male/teenaged female scenario as the more socially and morally egregious of the two circumstances, therefore I have little problem with any perceived inequity in justice administered between the two.
I do believe an adult female should be legally accountable when she lures a teenager into sexual activity.
I'm open to refutation and/or flaming.
At least she'll be paying taxes on the big money she'll be pulling in while on probation.
Many of the posts on this subject just affirms for me the nagging feelings I have about conservatives not being that different from liberals when it comes to issues of morality.
Fornication is WRONG according to the Bible.Conservatives-most of them that is-consider the Bible to be the foundation of Western values and an eternal moral code.
Yet,just like the liberals do,many if not most conservatives wink and giggle at perverts like this teacher and think its the funniest thing to come down the pike.Situational ethics?Moral relativism?
Conservatives the upholders of traditional morality?Don't make me laugh.
At 14 I was not the same person as today. All I said is she's quite attractive and at that age it wouldn't have taken much for her to have her way with me. Not once did I say that it would have been OK or right to do so.
I want you to point to the post where I said what she did was OK.
This is true! Freeper babes are the hottest! And they have brains and high morals! What more could you FReeper dudes ask for? On your knees for the FReeperettes and commence worshipping!
Not sure if you knew but one of the rules of Lafave's probation is that she not profit from her notoriety as the.... 'hot for teacher teacher'.
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Most dudes at 14 worth their salt would'v done'er. I know I would have. At 14 I was a raging bag of hormones.
I'd of shown her whose boss.
Man, she has some dead eyes.... cold as ice.
"What punishment would a male teacher have received?"
Also, what punishment would an overweight plain jane, an ugly woman, or a black woman, would have received?
But you're not a guy dear.....granted this gal is temporary material
Vive la iniquity!!!
This gets to the heart of the matter. This whole issue peels back a little of the curtain that hides the shaky foundation on which feminism is balanced for the moment:
That men and women are not complementary, but identical, and experience the world and their interrelationships in the same way, and therefore must be treated exactly equally under the law.
This starving punk got served a sizzling Ruth's Chris steak a few years before society said he was old enough to enjoy it responsibly. 3 or 4+ times. I'm sure all us guys are so thankful that society protected us from such damaging trauma when we were 14!
That would be Ma'am to you......honey! :)
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