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Teacher Claims Insanity in Sex Case Monday, July 18, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A teacher will claim she was insane due to emotional stress and did not know right from wrong when she had sex numerous times with a 14-year-old student, her attorney said Monday. "What teacher in her right mind would do something like this?" attorney John Fitzgibbons said after a brief hearing for his client, Debra Lafave (search), a middle-school reading teacher....

Local10.com Florida Teacher Accused Of Sex With 14-Year-Old Boy Woman Faces Charges After Boy Makes Accusations POSTED: 4:22 PM EDT June 24, 2004UPDATED: 5:19 PM EDT June 24, 2004 TAMPA -- A Tampa-area middle school teacher is under arrest, accused of having sex with a student.Reading teacher Debra Beasley LaFave, 23, is a newlywed who is accused of performing oral sex on a 14-year-old student at Greco Middle School twice in the past month.LaFave (pictured left, in wedding photo) is being held in the Hillsborough County Jail on $15,000 bail.The 2002 graduate of the University of South Florida was married...

A 23-year-old female teacher in Tampa, Fla., was arrested Monday for the second time on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old male student. Debra Lafave, (pictured, left) was accompanied by her new attorney, John Fitzgibbons as she surrendered to Marion County deputies in Ocala. Lafave, who is married, is a reading teacher at Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, just northeast of Tampa. The new charges accuse Lafave of pursuing the 14-year-old student to Ocala, Fla., while he was visiting his 15-year-old cousin. Detectives said Lafave had sex with the student twice in Ocala - once in the back...