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3 Female Teachers Charged With Having Sex With Students
KNBC ^ | 3-26-08

Posted on 03/26/2008 2:49:43 PM PDT by kingattax

TAMPA, Fla. -- In the past two weeks, three female teachers have been arrested in the Tampa, Fla., area, accused of having sex with male students.

First came the arrest of a middle school math teacher, Stephanie Ragusa, 28. She was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old, authorities said.

Investigators monitored phone calls between teacher and student in which Ragusa allegedly acknowledged having sex with the boy.

Last Thursday, high school honors English teacher Mary Jo Spack, 45, also was arrested. She is accused of meeting a 17- and an 18-year-old student at a liquor store and leading them to a motel room, where more students allegedly joined the party.

Spack was reportedly overheard having sex with one teen in the shower, police said.

"I just can't believe it's happening," said one unidentified Tampa-area parent. "I don't know what to think, or what's going through their heads."

And on Monday night, substitute teacher Lisa Marinelli, 40, a married mother of two, was arrested by sheriff's deputies and charged with unlawful sex with a minor. The 17-year-old victim told detectives he had sex with Marinelli 10 times. Authorities said they believe the boy.

"There's phone records, the text messages, the underwear, their statements," said Pasco County sheriff's detective Michelle March.

The arrests stirred memories of another notorious Tampa teacher, Debra Lafave. In June 2004, the middle school teacher was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old male student in her car, her condo and her classroom.

The combination of Lafave's pinup girl looks and the young age of her victim made the story an instant national sensation.

Therapist Karen Duncan specializes in treating sexually abused women and children. She believes it's not that female teachers are abusing their students more frequently, but rather we are more aware of it when the crime happens.

"That the cultural belief, you know, that boys can't be victims, therefore females can't be offenders, has been starting to be challenged (more) now than it was 30 years ago," she said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: naughtyteacherlist; publikskoolz; teacher; teachersgonewild
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To: kingattax

(L-R): Guilty, Hung Jury, Not Guilty.


21 posted on 03/26/2008 3:01:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

>>“There’s phone records, the text messages, the underwear, their statements,”<<

Well, thirty years ago we would have had the underwear and their statements. And I don’t know that the underwear would have done much good back then.

Also, I DO think it is happening much more than it used to. Our culture is considerably coursened in the last few decades. It is really a different world with a different attitude towards sex, homosexuality and sexual deviancy. Although males that have a taste for the flesh of minor boys seem to be vilified more than ever, the rest seems to be one big party.


22 posted on 03/26/2008 3:03:12 PM PDT by RobRoy (I'm confused. I mean, I THINK I am, but I'm not sure. But I could be wrong about that.)
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To: kingattax
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
23 posted on 03/26/2008 3:03:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: buccaneer81

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"not proved, not proved, not proved"

24 posted on 03/26/2008 3:03:36 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: kingattax

That is a stretched “wide screen image” of a normal tv picture. They are all lots thinner than they appear in the pictures.


25 posted on 03/26/2008 3:04:13 PM PDT by RobRoy (I'm confused. I mean, I THINK I am, but I'm not sure. But I could be wrong about that.)
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To: SolidWood
I never had a teacher who looked that "innocent"

I would imagine any kid running up to puberty and beyond would have a hard time concentrating in her class.

26 posted on 03/26/2008 3:05:31 PM PDT by Popman
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To: JRios1968

Every adolescent male’s dream...

At least until they learn all there are strings (ropes)
attached to the consequences of their acts

And that the wages of sin is death...


27 posted on 03/26/2008 3:07:41 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: kingattax

they need to allow teachers to marry and females need to be allowed to teach.


28 posted on 03/26/2008 3:08:50 PM PDT by Bostton1 (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have!)
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To: kingattax

Guilty, Trannie, Probation


29 posted on 03/26/2008 3:10:48 PM PDT by montag813
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To: kingattax

Guilty, Guilty, Undecided.


30 posted on 03/26/2008 3:11:18 PM PDT by RU88
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To: reagan_fanatic

LOL


31 posted on 03/26/2008 3:11:32 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Forget "Who is John Galt?" I want to know "Where is Galt's Gulch?")
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To: kingattax

geez


32 posted on 03/26/2008 3:14:35 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: JRios1968

All Guilty.


33 posted on 03/26/2008 3:14:48 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Who dat?

Obvious question: Did they have sex because they were screwed up, or did they become screwed up because they had sex?


34 posted on 03/26/2008 3:15:07 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: JRios1968

Guilty if paper bag was used, Probation, Not Guilty


35 posted on 03/26/2008 3:16:18 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: kingattax

Left to right: Guilty, firing squad at sunrise.

Need more evidence.

Clearly innocent.


36 posted on 03/26/2008 3:17:08 PM PDT by BJClinton (Obama's mentor: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=617eK2XIaLk&feature=related)
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To: Popman

The face of innocence.


37 posted on 03/26/2008 3:19:16 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When you choose the lesser of two evils, you still have evil.)
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To: SolidWood

Guilty, Guilty, Community Service


38 posted on 03/26/2008 3:23:26 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: RobRoy
She believes it's not that female teachers are abusing their students more frequently, but rather we are more aware of it when the crime happens.

I disagree. Just about everything in our culture has become highly sexualized with even perverted sex being glorified, and we're supposed to believe that doesn't have an affect on the actions and thoughts of people??? I guess it's easier to say this has always happened than it is to admit there's something seriously wrong with our culture. That would be JUDGING, and we can't do that, can we?
39 posted on 03/26/2008 3:23:48 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (<----- Typical White Person)
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To: kingattax

Ten times and then he decided to go to the cops?


40 posted on 03/26/2008 3:24:56 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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