Charges Dropped Against Female Teacher in Florida Who Had Sex with 14-Year-Old Student
Marion County, Florida, prosecutors dropped charges Tuesday (March 21st) against Debra Lafave, a 25-year-old former teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old male student. The decision was announced hours after Circuit Judge Hale Stancil rejected a plea deal because it didn't include prison time, saying it, quote, "shocks the conscience of this court." By dropping the charges, the boy won't have to testify, and Assistant State Attorney Richard Ridgway explained, "The court may be willing to risk the well-being of the victims in this case in order to force it to trial. I am not." A psychiatrist who'd examined the boy said at a previous hearing that he suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and didn't want to testify. The boy's family had pushed for a plea deal because they didn't want him to have to take the stand.
Lafave was sentenced last November to three years house arrest and seven years' probation under a plea deal in Hillsborough County, where she was charged with having sex with the boy in a classroom and at her home, and that sentence stands. She'd been charged in Marion County for having sex with the boy in a SUV, and the plea deal sought would have had the same punishment.
In a news conference yesterday after the charges were dropped, Lafave blamed her actions on bipolar disorder, and said she is getting treatment. The attractive blue-eyed blonde apologized to the boy, and said, "I pray with all my heart that the young man and his family will be able to move on with their lives." She also placed blame on the media for overblown coverage of the case, saying the boy's, quote, "privacy had been violated," and looked to the future:
Do you think Lafave should have gotten jail time for having sex with her 14-year-old student?
Do you think a 14-year-old boy being molested by a woman is less harmful than a 14-year-old girl being molested by a man and should be treated differently?
What do you think of Lafave blaming her actions on bipolar disorder, blaming the media for violating the boy's privacy and blowing the story out of proportion, and calling herself a good Christian woman and the molestation a bump in the road?
posted by Pat Campbell @ 5:42 AM
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C'mon, Pat. I was in high school in the early '70's and one of my best friends nailed a hot, young teacher when we were about 15. We looked at him like a God walking the face of the earth and although he may have had some "reaction" to the experience, trauma certainly wasn't part of it. Sure, this babe shouldn't be teaching school, but "raping" a 14 year old guy is an oxymoron. I think the result of this train wreck is just about right.
OK Anonymous. Now lest flashback tto the male schoolteacher in Mass. who was sentenced to 9 years in prison for having sex with a 14 year old student (this with the student crying in the courtroom and insisting that it was completely consensual). Do you think his sentence was "about right"? If so you are guilty of having the same double standard as all of the other depraved people expressing sentiments similar to yours. If I get on a jury for the trial of a male sex offender I am voting for full aquittal, even if it means a mistrial. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as the old saying goes.
Now I will answer your questions Pat. This tramp does a great disservice to anyone who suffers from bipolar disorder. One of my friends is bipolar but she has no interest in pee-pants 14 year-old boys. She just doesn't want to admit she did what she did because she is a pedophile. Hopefully her and her new husband won't have any children (especially boys).
What she did should be a crime for everybody or nobody. There is no room for double standards in the justice system. I was sitting in a courtroom here in CA when a divorced father was ordered to register as a sex offender (life ruined forever, in other words) just because his ex found out about a few images on his computer and reported him. Well after that pedophile in Georgia, and now this, I have made up my mind what I am going to do about it.
There is now way this woman was going to get time. Her outer beauty hynotized all of the men involved. Now she will write a book, get a talk show and become very rich.
I don't think it's a crime if you are riped by someone so attractive. Do you hear the victim complaining?
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