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.
Well,
as a woman,
I find it very ironic that men seem to know so much more about us they we do. Then get all upset that we women don't like sex as much as they do...that we get all emotional and weird and why can't we be like that wonderful teacher etc etc...
Why can't we be like Jenna!
No wait...
We're supposed to be nuns...
No we're supposed to be....
SCHOOL TEACHERS!
One day
YOUR daughter may be someone's school teacher...
She's learning more than you realize.
Believe me.
Ok.
I don't see it, but ok.
Maybe in your universe. I have a 14 year old son. If one of his teachers or a friends' mom had sex with him I'd be pressing charges too. I don't consider myself to be a prude in matters of sex.
It the fact that one's a kid and one's an adult. That's disgusting and illegal whether its hetero or homo.
Amen.
I may be the exception in regretting that.
Believe me, you are not alone.
14 year old boys can get someone pregnant though, and ruin their lives just the same. The pregnancy issue aside, which isn't really relevant anyways, the emotional scarring that can occur by someone so young being put in that position can be harmful to normal emotional and psychological development.
Not saying it happens in every case, but some don't deal with it well.
Haven't you heard? You are supposed to be like nuns in public, but whores in the bedroom.
I want to see her on Surreal Life.
;-P
I just was this.
CNN Breaking News Lafave Charges Dropped
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600485/posts
"Not all conservatives lack a sense of humor."
Agreed. In fact, I'd say not all conservatives are knuckle dragging morons either.
An adult shouldn't have to regrets sins he committed when 14.
This woman robbed this boy of that clear mind.
was = saw
Spellcheck won't catch that.
Maybe she can hook up with that hot drunken slut from Louisiana, Trichelle, from the real world and its various iterations.
Really...tell it to Vili Fualaau...
Knock on wood, my daughter so far is more mature and level-headed than I am (no shock there, I'm sure)!
Don't get me wrong -- the teacher was a skank. Cheating on her hubby and all that, that is not acceptable. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just pointing out that calling these boys "victims" is not, to me, even close to the truth of the situation.
Ah!
I didn't get the memo.
Sorry,
It gets confusing.
14 year old girl--- NO SEX!
14 year old boy--- LOTS OF SEX!
Oh well,
If I were 14 again,
I'd be planning on the day I had my first class of highschool freshmen ;)
"She had a sense of humor in that they did it in the back of the car while his friend was driving. That's hot!"
lol... Who are you? Paris Hilton?
You have no way of knowing what the state of mind of this boy is, and therefore you cannot guarantee whether or not he now feels or will at some time in the future have feelings of regret, shame and remorse.
Only one contrary example need suffice to prove that lack of remorse is a universal given. One of my nephews at a relatively young age fornicated with an older married woman who was a youth group leader at the church, and fathered a child by her. He became so guilt ridden and remorseful that he was at the point of suicide for a time. This woman and her husband went off to another state, with no discipline at all from the feckless church, and will probably continue the same pattern. My nephew knows he is the father of a child whom he may never see again.
The 14 year-old in the news committed fornication with a married woman, which is a moral wrong, and I would guess that he is probably old enough to know that what he was doing was wrong, morally, if not legally. He was victimized by being enticed by an older woman to commit a moral offence who herself was comitting a criminal as well as a moral offense. The only way he will not feel some remorse and shame over what he did, even if he is not as culpable as her, is if he has no conscience.
Cordially,
She looks about 16 years of age in that picture..........
And I referring to your comment that your first hand knowledge of being a "man" that this kid will revel in memory for the rest of his life.
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