Free Republic

Most people know the movie "Brokeback Mountain," due to be released on DVD Tuesday, for its central romance between two cowboys. But one group of viewers can't help also noticing the tragedy lurking in the film's background -- the story of the wives left to cope with their husbands' love affair. "I was kind of nervous about seeing it, because I was afraid that it would bring up some old feelings," admits Linda, a 52-year-old East Bay resident who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her family's privacy. "It's an awful thing to go through." For members...

CNN Breaking News ALL charges against Debra Lafave have been dropped. Devoloping

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....

Riverside, N.J., Feb. 21, 2005 — Sources say the 14-year-old boy having an affair with a teacher is cooperating with police, but is reluctant to divulge details for fear of getting her in more trouble. Action News has been told the boy is in love with the teacher, who is ten years older, and that the two even talked of marriage. Gail Nottie/STORE OWNER: "I can't understand it, I can't see what a women would see in a child." People are still in shock about the arrest Friday of a substitute teacher at Riverside High School for allegedly having an...

A Warren County elementary teacher faces a maximum 100 years in prison if she's convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy. Only news two was in Fentress County as 27-year-old Pamela Rogers Turner was arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape. District Attorney General Dale Potter said that Turner, a physical education teacher and coach at Centertown Elementary, had an ongoing sexual relationship with a male student. Potter said that some of the incidents even took place at school and at the boy's home, where...

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...

n a case eerily similar to a notorious Washington state prosecution where an older woman had sex and children with a teen boy, a Spring Lake woman has been charged with three counts of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Authorities believe Stephanie Elizabeth Bissell, 34, is pregnant with the boy's child. Bissell, 214 N. Park, was arraigned Friday in Ottawa County's 58th District Court on three charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, all involving the same 14-year-old boy. Bissell demanded a preliminary examination and bond was set at $3,000. If convicted, Bissell faces a maximum sentence of...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- An English teacher and cheerleading coach in Douglas County has been suspended without pay after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage male student. Authorities say they suspended the teacher identified as 27-year-old Kari McCarley at Alexander High School last week after another teacher overheard the boy talking about a relationship with McCarley. McCarley was released from jail on bond.

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...