guilty, not guilty, hung jury
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.
guilty guilty guilty. that was easy
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.
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I have no data to refute her, nor does she offer any data, but I absolutely do not believe that this has been going on forever.
This could have happened on extremely rare occasions many years ago, but it has not been until the last 35-40 years that a sizeable portion of the female population has changed dramatically in its attitude toward sexual mores. It is astounding to me to see how rapidly our culture has descended since it cheapened the role of women.
A woman was once placed on a pedestal by the majority of men in society. Thanks to the feminist message and to the suseptibility of a large number of women to its dismantling of family values, there is nothing sacred anymore, least of all motherhood and female dignity.
guilty, not guilty, hung jury
Glad to see Arlen checking in on this one. Arlen,
what does Scottish law say about female teachers doing their young male students?
Guilty, community service, and do me now.
Her eyes freak me out!!
This may interest you:
The big list: Female teachers with students
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=39783
When I was in high school, I knew of one female teacher who used to bribe the male athletes to have sex with her, I knew of one male teacher who had sex with female students (probably a few others, but I didn’t know for sure), and one male teacher who invited boys over to his pool all the time (the teacher was openly gay) and had them steal his Corvette and remove the engine so that he could get a new engine from the insurance company, he also was paying for the college education of one gay football player. I also knew that the Catholic priest was getting the acolyte class drunk on communion wine and molesting them. It was all true, my dad was the desk sergeant at the police station, and the rest came from the son of the superintendent of schools.
capital punishment, guilty, lots of community service.
But, they have “education degrees” and as such, are the ONLY ones qualified to teach our children. Since I have multiple grad degrees in science, but no “education” degree, in my state I can teach doctoral students, but not high school students. That ‘bout sez it all!! Oh, they’re obviously teaching sex education, eh?
when I was 17 and 18, the 35-38yrs olds were easy pickins’.
And they had no strings attached which was nice.
lol
I am in 100% agreement with you......
I wouldn’t touch any of the three with yours.
Maybe she cut him off.
I was kind of hard to have teacher sex scandals at my high school. All of the teachers were these very old crabby asian ladies.
Two students did get caught having sex during lunch break in some bushes by the football field by campus security. My group of friends used to sit on the bleachers after lunch and we had seen them go back there regularly for about a month, rumors started to spread, and I think someone blabbed because the security was hiding out and busted them about 5 minutes after they disappeared back there. I saw them being marched to the principals office with her in tears. Can you imagine being the parents getting the phone calls on that one? Yikes.
c'mon ya can hotlink better pictures than that
also a better article - In 2 Weeks, 3 Teachers Jailed In Student Sex Cases
Guilty, Not proven, Innocent
Well, I may be a teacher, but I’m too old for this kind of stuff - so far I haven’t seen any grandma’s involved.
(And I teach college students, so if I ever did even for the slightest moment consider any non-professional interaction with a student, and I can’t ever see doing that, it would be legal ) =8-p
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