Posted on 03/21/2006 11:29:17 AM PST by Abathar
OCALA, Fla. -- A Florida judge said a plea deal for a Tampa teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old would "erode public confidence in" schools.
Marion County Circuit Judge Hale Stencil has rejected the plea deal for Debra Lafave, 25. The judge said the deal would undermine the credibility of the criminal justice system.
Prosecutors and the defense lawyer had urged the judge to accept the deal for the good of the boy. A psychiatrist told the judge the boy suffered extreme anxiety because of intense media coverage of the case and does not want to testify.
Lafave was charged in two counties where she's accused of having sex with the student.
A judge in Hillsborough County accepted a plea deal there in November and sentenced Lafave to three years of house arrest and seven years' probation. She pleaded guilty in November to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery for having sex with the boy in a classroom and her home.
Good point!
Prolly safest if he tells her first!
lighten up, I was just kidding.
257 posts on this subject and only 1 pic of Lafave? You guys are losing it.
Slick Willie, is that you?
I'm a male, and I've never understood guys who haven't got an eye out for a wife, to whom they will be sexually faithful. This kid has the deck stacked against him in that department.
And I'll have to say that infantile attitudes like yours do nothing to help him learn to act like a man.
I'd be just as pissed if my 14 year old son was molested by some teacher, male or female. Do you have sons?
The choice of exclamation could have been better, but you must admit, it fulfills the fantasies of a lot of 14 year old boys. Think of her as a kind of slutty social worker.
The adult, of course.
When I was 14 I would have walked three miles uphill barefoot on broken glass to ... well.....
Its because you tell us how your feeling, over and over and over and over.........:-)
Yes,
girls are very different about sex.
But they like it just as much and need it too.
Just like boys.
Believe me.
Really,
Honest....
You'll see ;)
Ah -- i see the misunderstanding then.
No, I'm actually the one blaming the boy. He is no "victim", in my opinion. He knew what he was doing, and he willingly took part. Like when a kid goes and gets drugs from a dealer. The kid is not a 'victim', he's a 'perpetrator'.
I'm saying I hate when people act like 14 year old boys are 'victims' of older women.
Not only that he will have skewered perception of women,but from now on all the 14 and 15 year old girls he dates will be expected to "get down tonite"or else.
In the boy's case,expectations of a "date"have been altered significantly.
Well,
if you'd pay attention, we wouldn't have to keep repeating ourselves.
BTW,
did you take the trash out?
Dang. At fourteen...I thought anything, including playing tiddlywinks was about sex.
It is just too crazy, and many guys know just what I mean. I wouldn't go back there for ANYTHING...better to be older and wiser...:)
I was a man when I did wrong; I did it of my own free will and accord, and I regret what I did.
A boy-turned-adult should not have to regret his actions not really of his own free will and accord.
Yes you are correct. but there is also more:
Matthew 18:6
18:6. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.
I'm referring to the fact here that her being older than him won't make him regret it. He is not a 'victim' of an older woman. Yes, he is a 'victim' of sexuality . . . but that's not the story here, I think.
If the kid was seduced than he is the victim of the seducer. He is indeed a victim because she used here position of power, age and beauty to seduce him. The devil is good at finding aluring forms to make us fall.
se·duce
Pronunciation Key (s-ds, -dys)
tr.v. se·duced, se·duc·ing, se·duc·es
1. To lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct. See Synonyms at lure.
2. To induce to engage in sex.
3.
1. To entice or beguile into a desired state or position.
2. To win over; attract.
I had posters all over my bedroom walls of different rock stars for a reason.
Boy, God was playing the best practical joke in the world when he invented two genders and let one believe they invented sex.;)
Sure,he will walk around with his feces eating grin and all but don't you think his sexual development will be somewhat twisted,at least looking at it from Judeo-Christian standards?
I remember walking around for a week with a grin on my face cause I cheated on a Latin test and thought I "got over" on the system.
But WHO did I really cheat by this feel good act?
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