Posted on 04/04/2008 2:17:40 PM PDT by kingattax
TAMPA -- Before a Davidsen Middle School teacher started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, she told the boy she could help him overcome his shyness, according to a new court filing.
When teacher Stephanie Ragusa, 28, left, broke her foot and was confined to a wheel chair, the boy was assigned to escort her around the school, detectives wrote in their request for a search warrant filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court.
Ragusa told the boy when they got into the elevator that she noticed he was "shy and she could break him of that," the warrant states. Then, it says, she invited him to go to her apartment after school instead of attending an after-school program.
At her apartment, they had what the boy described to police as "consensual" sex. Ragusa then took him back to school in time to be picked up by his step-mother.
Over the next several weeks, detectives wrote, Ragusa and the boy spoke over the phone. One night, while the boy's parents were sleeping, the teacher picked him up around the corner from his house and they had sex in the back seat of her silver Lexus SUV, the report states.
Their sexual relationship lasted from October, 2006 to May 2007, detectives said.
The last reported sexual incident between the two took place the night of the boy's eighth grade dance. The boy said he skipped the dance, got a ride from Ragusa to an after-hours party, then got a ride with her to Gant Road, where they had sex again, detectives say.
The boy described to detectives two tattoos -- a flower and possibly a butterfly -- in Ragusa's groin area that they said would be visible only without clothes, as well as a gecko on her back. Hillsborough Sheriff's detectives requested the search warrant to obtain pictures of Ragusa's body as well as DNA samples and fingerprints from her Lexus.
Ragusa, who was hired by the school district in 2006, faces five felony charges of lewd and lascivious battery, one for each sexual act involving the 14-year-old, who deputies say turned 15 over the course of their relationship. Ragusa, of Lake Bella Vista Drive in Tampa, was working at Martinez Middle as a math teacher when the charges against her were filed. She has been suspended from her teaching job.
Is she smiling like that for a mug shot? What a piece of work.
did it work?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Argh! Guilty!
"I've just been busted for statutory rape? Heyyyyyy, guess this means I'm going to DisneyWorld!"
She must not have been a very good math teacher, or else she would have known that 14 will get you 20.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Dude... Wait, what?
apparently, but now SHE’S shy a job and a paycheck.
” [He] got a ride from Ragusa to an after-hours party”
Uhm okay, “hey, put away the weed, that tool brought a teacher...”
What teacher goes to an after party? What kid brings a teacher to the after hours party for an 8th grade dance?
Seems like the public schools are packed with child molesters, leftist propagandists and psychotic chidren these days. I wonder how this came about.
Not Guilty.
Hmmmmm...bet she knows how many times 14 goes into 28.
lots of ‘shy’ kids there at disneyworld she’s thinking
You know, my daughter is a seventh grade teacher, and you won’t believe the crap she, and most good looking female teachers in her school take, from their male counter parts joking about what they might be doing after school. This type of conduct makes her, and me, frankly, just sick with disgust, that someone in a profession of trust could so casually disregard their positions for a “fling”.
The boy described to detectives two tattoos -- a flower and possibly a butterfly -- in Ragusa's groin area that they said would be visible only without clothes, as well as a gecko on her back.
She still has her Lexus SUV though.
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Whoa! Gnarly!
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