Charges against Debra LaFave, the the 25-year-old Tampa teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, were dropped by prosecutors in Marion County, Florida after a judge rejected a proposed plea agreement. From The St. Petersburg Times:
TAMPA – A few hours after an Ocala judge refused to accept a plea deal, Marion County prosecutors announced that they were dropping all charges against Debra Lafave, the former middle school teacher accused of sexual assault of a student nearly two years ago.
“The court may be willing to risk the victim’s well being in this case in order to force it to trial, I am not,” said Ric Ridgway, chief assistant state attorney in Marion County.
Earlier Tuesday, Marion County Judge Hale R. Stancil had rejected a plea deal that would have spared Lafave jail time in exchange for pleading guilty.
“Accepting the proposed plea agreement would undermine the credibility of this court, and the criminal justice system as a whole, and would erode public confidence in our schools,” Judge Stancil wrote in the order released Tuesday.
Marion County prosecutors then decided to drop the charges.
Debra LaFave did not escape punishment completely. In November 2005 LaFave plead guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery in Hillsborough County in exchange for a sentence of three years of house arrest and seven years probation. That guilty plea also required her to register as a sex offender, but she did escape any prison time. Prosecutors agreed to the plea bargain after the family of the victim implored them to find a way for the now 16-year-old boy to avoid what was destined to become a media circus. LaFave had faced up to 40 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Today’s action in Marion County, where she faced similar charges, ends the case for LaFave, who is now engaged to her high school sweetheart Andrew Beck.
It also marks a chance for the victim and his family to somehow find their way back to normal.
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I am 14 and I happen to Mac Lorry’s point. Is it really immoral, or is it just the way we’re looking at this? Scociety has ruled that this is immoral, and considering the way most peolpe look at this it is immoral. My parents have over a 10 year age difference and ist not immoral.
Let’s say that there is no legal age (18), In fact lets change the age to 14. If this had occured between this woman and this student, would there be any case, would there be any trial? no. Is this really such a big deal that it is wrong, in the sense of God, or wrong in the sense of scociety, or wrong in the sense of nature? For example let’s say there is no U.S., you are living in a village and this occurs between this 14 year old and this woman. There are no laws against it. There are no restrictions. What’s so bad? The kid wouldn’t be scarred emotionally because there is no law against it. So ask yourself is this wrong because of law or because of what nature intended for us to be and do?
id hit it.
id hit it.
I don’t know what your talking about I’m 18 and I wish she’s my teacher because i would let her bang the crap out of me and I would let her take advantage god dam.
That kid is a STUD in my Book.
I’m sure he enjoyed all of the 3 seconds that he ws in that Dumb broads Sweet Juicy Pussy too.
Forget about Psychological Scars, he is going down in the history books as a bigger stud than any homecoming King, or All Star Football Quarterback.
Synova – Your rath reminds me of a bull dyke that cant get a date and who has just ran out of batteries. Damn… chill out
Uh, the word is “wrath”. Anyhoo, the position of most men seems to be that women who object to this are ugly, jealous, etc.
Here’s the deal. If this were a guy, you people would be all over him. If this woman weren’t “hot” in your eyes, would it still be OK? Being attractive doesn’t give anyone a free pass to violate the law, whether you’re male or female. Like others here have said, this woman had a responsibility. I don’t believe her job description entailed sex with students. Period.
The sex might have been with his consent, but SHE was the adult here. You cannot overlook that or deny it or skirt around it. He was not 16 when this happened. She is in her 20’s, yes, but there’s some details no one seems to mention.
1) She was his teacher. Somebody who should’ve acted in a responsible, trustworthy way. Most parents don’t send their children to school in the hopes that they’ll live out some XXX porno schoolboy fantasy. School is for learning and she was there to provide that…not blowjobs to a student.
2) She was a married woman. Not only was she unfaithful to her husband, but with a KID? Of all the people in the world, a 14-year-old boy? With all the horny virile men in their 20’s, she had to do this with a minor. Not like she had sex with another teacher or member of staff…this was her student. She wasn’t a teenage girl.
3) Like somebody above mentioned, she seems to feel justified in her actions. No one’s perfect but it bothers people when they see somebody who won’t take responsibility. She was the adult, she was in a position of authority, and she abused it. If her job or those students mattered to her…she wouldn’t have done that. If her marriage mattered to her…she wouldn’t have done that. She’s dumber than shit, too, if she thought no one would ever discover what she was up to.
4) When she was interviewed, she tried to make it sound like this boy initiated an unwanted encounter with her. Like he raped her or something. She said he fondled her and she protested, then started pulling out the excuses. “Oh, I’m bipolar. Oh, I was raped as a teenager”. Not only is she saying it’s his fault but she’s trying to cover herself by making excuses.
I wish people (men) wouldn’t be blind to a person’s character b/c of looks. If a good-looking coach or teacher has sex with a female student, he is labeled a sex offender, a pervert. You would want to put him away. Because the offender happens to be young, blonde, and “hot” in your eyes…somehow that makes it OK. Because after all, every boy wants to screw their teacher, right? She didn’t ruin his life but is she somebody you would trust with your 14-year-old sons? A minor is a minor.
No, most women aren’t jealous of this white trash. That is what men will say b/c they don’t want to hear different sides. You see a pretty girl and in your mind, that’s all that matters. The head upstairs doesn’t work anymore. You’re defending what she’s done. We simply have our own perspective about this and we feel that her actions were inappropriate. Being blonde or pretty doesn’t diminish the inappropriate actions of an individual. She has to live with the consequences of her actions. She isn’t a rapist in the literal sense, and she isn’t a murderer…but she did do something highly inappropriate with a young boy. She wasn’t a friend of his mom, or his brother’s girlfriend, or the sexy neighbor next door. None of which would be OK, but she was his teacher.
She lives in this country. She should know about people like Mary Kay Letourneau! Mary Kay’s only difference was her age, children, and the fact that she continued a relationship with Vili. Mary Kay seems to have mental problems and was the victim of incest. When Debra was interviewed, she seemed to be very indifferent about it, like, “Oh, well”. She might not be very bright but she understood very well that her actions were inappropriate. Didn’t bother her one bit. She probably has never had a real thought in her life about the feelings of others. She’s young, dumb, full of cum. Her role and responsibility as an educator flew out the window. She is beautiful but there’s something wrong when professional women can’t even be treated with respect b/c of people like this. As a young female teacher in a classroom of horny boys, she should’ve acted with self-respect instead of like some slutty “teacher” in a porno movie.
Gado made some really good points…..its mostly society bro….and their colloquial imposed double standards and sexual hang-ups….this was very obviously a victimless crime….ecstacy was the only outcome….she and he….his pleasure is obvious to everyone….he had his first orgasm inside of and in the arms of a beautiful blond diva…..and she expereinced the intensity of having an enthusiastic lover with a fresh charge of sexual energy on his batteries blow his “battery fluid” inside of her….in other words….they both expereinced arm candy….so what really is the problem here? Other than our societies bullshit sexual hangups.
Hey i understand everyones enthusiastic interest in ” little debbie’s” sexual initiative….when a woman that looks like and is built like her shows the kind of interest and sexual proactivity and persuit of a lover the way she did everyone perks the hell up and wants to know what motivated it……since it is rare in our fucking society to see such sexual interest exhibited by beautiful women.
Well guess what……women DO have biological urges on occassion ( oh my god !!!! )…..and they DO sometimes act on them ( oh my god !!! ) ….so to the media and press and our society I submit these three words of advice………GET OVER IT. And get a fucking clue.
As stated before if it had been any of us guys when we were in school, to have the chance to knock off a teacher that looked like this. we would be so damn popular. I am not convinced that this student did not attempt to bag this teacher, and succeeded on his own, with bad judgement on her part. Besides kids these days don’t look their age anyway, 14 could look like 19 or 20 now. Maybe he whipped out his package and she said “damn, your bigger than my husband! I gotta have it!”.
The whole thing to me is yes we have double standards, if it had been a male teacher with a female student, he would have be charged with everything under the sun, no question about it. I think the Judge thought about this case like most of us guys, and said to himself “damn, what a lucky kid!”.