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Teacher offered to "break" student of shyness before sex act, detectives say
St. Petersburg Times ^ | 4-3-08 | Rebecca Catalanello

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.



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To: mylife

“That was not a butterfly boy!”

Boy: “Duh....wuz it a taco?”


101 posted on 04/04/2008 5:28:31 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

102 posted on 04/04/2008 5:30:51 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

LOL!


103 posted on 04/04/2008 5:32:38 PM PDT by Levante
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To: wintertime
If parent send their kids into a prison-like situation, they shouldn't be surprised if their kids are molested by the guards.
104 posted on 04/04/2008 6:49:36 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: kingattax

She’s a ladyboy.


105 posted on 04/04/2008 7:31:26 PM PDT by shaft29 (Just your typical white woman.)
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To: smokinleroy

Was there also a tatoo of Willie Nelson?
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Yes but Willies beard is real, not ink..


106 posted on 04/04/2008 7:55:47 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: goldstategop

Not guilty.


107 posted on 04/04/2008 7:57:10 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: allmendream

LOL!


108 posted on 04/04/2008 7:57:48 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: SlowBoat407; martin_fierro
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109 posted on 04/04/2008 9:40:01 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Renegade conservative, now registered as a 'Rat, in support of Operation Chaos.)
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To: rednesss

On the other hand, she demonstrated that 14 goes into 28 more than twice.


110 posted on 04/04/2008 10:39:20 PM PDT by Erasmus (It takes branes to make an alternate universe.)
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To: DakotaGator

Shoulda known.

< }B^)


111 posted on 04/04/2008 10:40:13 PM PDT by Erasmus (It takes branes to make an alternate universe.)
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To: Erasmus

BUMP!


112 posted on 04/04/2008 11:37:32 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: TheBlueMax
I am disgusted with such behavior.

Fortunately in our school we treat each other with the greatest respect, and are very professional in the way we conduct ourselves.

God bless your daughter.

113 posted on 04/05/2008 5:27:57 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Oztrich Boy

They should do a parody of that scene where she’s a bassoon player instead of a flutist.

Of course they could cast Paris Hilton...


114 posted on 04/05/2008 5:33:44 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: mylife

You know what they say, “loose shoes and a soft, warm corn tortilla.”


115 posted on 04/05/2008 5:37:10 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: Erasmus

Math is a wonderful thing. Sure has changed since my school days ;-)


116 posted on 04/05/2008 7:44:01 AM PDT by DakotaGator
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To: river rat
I would have kept my mouth shut.

I do recall, rather fondly, a summer school health class I had to take. In retrospect; the teacher reminds me a lot (or visa versa) of Jerri (Seven of Nine) Ryan. And being summer and all, she dressed for the occasion. :)

117 posted on 04/05/2008 5:09:09 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Oztrich Boy
Not smiling makes you look guilty.

Smiling makes you look like you're not taking this very seriously. The jury isn't going to determine their verdict based on a mug shot anyway.
118 posted on 04/07/2008 5:01:43 AM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Aaron0617
Teacher offered to "break" student of shyness before sex act, detectives say

She was arrested AGAIN!! So many shy students so little time..

Teacher accused of sex with second student

119 posted on 04/15/2008 9:13:15 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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