LaFave wants contact with kids of family, friends

Tampa Bay Online TBO ^ | 10/27/09

[jwparkerjr]

TAMPA - A judge is set to decide Thursday whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children of her family and friends.

[jwparkerjr]

IMHO this is a large part of what's wrong our justice system these days. She was convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old student. Unless there's something we're not being told she was never a threat to the kids of her family and friends. Certainly those parents should have sense enough to keep an eye on her when she's around their kids. The system doesn't seem to have, or be willing to exercise, any common sense in order save themselves time and effort. Time and effort that could be used to address some of the real criminals that walk our streets.

I am not condoning what she did. But to make her have to have a court order to be with the kids in her family is a bit much in my humble opinion.

[Always Right]

[ElkGroveDan]

Just thought I’d take a moment to weigh in with “not guilty”.

[tet68]

She has paid her debt to society, I cannot see how
denying her relations with her own family has any
meaningful use. Leave her alone.

By the way, Not Guilty.

[nascarnation]

too bad Bill Clinton isn’t President
she’d be a lock to get a pardon

[Melas]

While I realize you’re joking, it seems that few understand the presidential power to pardon. Joke aside, the President of the United States of America does not have the power to pardon someone convicted of a crime against one of the 50 states. The presidential pardon extends solely to those convicted of federal crimes.

[RightFighter]

That woman could never be guilty of anything!

[Bigg Red]

Unless there’s something we’re not being told she was never a threat to the kids of her family and friends.

&&
Pedophiles cannot be trusted around kids.

[Bigg Red]

She has paid her debt to society,....

&&&
What? If I recall correctly, the slut never spend one moment behind bars.

[tet68]

I believe your memory may be faulty.

[jwparkerjr]

re: Pedophiles cannot be trusted around kids

The situation is not nearly as cut and dried this. I would have no qualms about having her around my children or grandchildren. She is such a marked person now that she doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of offending as long as everyone knows who she’s with and where they are.

The danger comes when you force them out of the community that knows them and what they are and into a community where no one knows the threat they represent.

I would not leave her by herself with a kid, but at a family gathering such as Christmas or Thanksgiving I would not be all that concerned.

Just my humble opinion.

[afraidfortherepublic]

How has Miss “too pretty to go to jail” “paid her debt to society”? She didn’t even have to go to jail. And she broke her probation already at her job. This woman has a screw loose, and I wouldn’t want her around ANY children — related, or not.

[dusttoyou]

That woman could never be guilty of anything!

And even if she was I grant her a personal pardon.

Can you imagine the bragging right her young dude has?

[tet68]

Sir, my profound apology, she never served time
in prison although much time was spent in jails
and courts.

I fail to see what purpose this serves.
She did not have a history of pedofilia.
I rather doubt she is a threat to any of her
family members who she is related to by marriage.

[CaptRon]

I would be more than happy for her to have contact with me.

And I AM of age.

And Laz's "I'd hit it" would be unfunny and stupid. Who wouldn't?

The real question would be would she allow it?

[TurtleUp]

The real question would be would she allow it?

I suspect she would allow it, even if I am nearly twice her age. After all, I am a kid at heart.

[Bigg Red]

If she was a man or was not a beautiful woman, I wonder how much criticism the court would be getting about this.

BTW, I am a woman. (And, one of these days, I will get around to changing my dang screen name.)

[Raymann]

Well, when I see a story like this, I think (and I'm sure most men here think also) would something like this have screwed me up if I were that 14 year old?

I don't know but on the other hand I can't see how it would have. And that's the thing, there was certainty an abuse of authority and she should be fired but where was the harm other then that?

But like you said, imagine it was a 23 year old man and a 14 year old girl. My visceral reaction would be to lock him up. That's a contradiction and like Ayn Rand said, if there is one then check your premises.

I don't know the answer, it could be differences between the sexes, it could be that a couple of years home confinement was too good for her. Whatever it is though, the laws is way to far behind.

BTW:

[JoeMac]

“By the way, not guilty’’. Clearly, inarguably,undeniably not guilty.