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.
Now that's what I call stamina!
To really give a valid opinion we need a bikini shot!
What an idiot. She deserves what she gets.
You may have "had" them at 14, but they "said no" to kids that age back then. Before the media were polluted with "free speech."
LOL! high five!
Nope. She's going down. She's not blonde.
Their sexual relationship lasted from October, 2006 to May 2007
Now that’s what I call stamina!
LOL YOU KNOW TEENAGERS!!!
ROFLMAO!
Apparently the answer to that equation would be 5.
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
Disgust is the correct emotion. But we should all come to grips with the fact that "education" is not a profession.
The unions took over the "teaching" profession and turned it into "education". Consequently, "education" changed from a profession into just a job.
Professions, by their numerous unwritten codes of behavior and standards ruthlessly rid themselves of those who do not live up to those codes and standards. Jobs, through the unions, protect and promote those who do not live up to the published codes and standards. Plus, jobs often embrace the unwritten behavior of "whatever I can get away with".
Into this witches brew mix a massive amount of federal and state government control and you are guaranteed to develop and coddle scum as employees.
Until we remove unions and federal/state governments from our schools and return them to true local control, we will see more and more disgusting "educator" behavior.
Sadly, my immediate advice to your daughter is; "If you don't like pigs, get out of the pigsty."
They know right from wrong. Wrong is the fun one... /s
And high five back from another Firefly fan!
What a sick woman. I hope she gets a long sentence.
Here's your Bikini shot:
Bikini Nuclear Test Shot
How do you know?
I'd hit it!
Must have he wasn't shy about telling about it. What kind of kooks are they putting in schools.
Just goes to show that increasing teachers’ pay (to where they can afford to drive a Lexus) will not necessarily improve the quality of education -— except maybe SexEd.
She must not have been a very good math teacher, or else she would have known that 14 will get you 20.
Or that 14 only goes into 28 twice, not 5 times.
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