Sex teacher gets judge's OK for TV chat

[Buxom Wench]

I.....uh..... GIMME A FRELLIN' BREAK!!! :augh:
If it was a male teacher, he'd be in jail with no 'interview privileges'.
And, I'm sorry, Bi-polar disorder is NO FROCKIN' EXCUSE for her behavior.
She was horny, found a victim and that's what it is.
EGADS!!!!
(ok, I'll probably be blasted for that but...EEESH!)


Sex teacher gets judge's OK for TV chat

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/23/teacher.sex.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Sex teacher gets judge's OK for TV chat
Woman, 25, is under house arrest for having sex with boy, 14

TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- Debra Lafave, the former middle-school teacher who admitted having sex with a 14-year-old student, got a judge's permission to sit down sit down at a hotel for a national TV interview.

Lafave is serving three years' house arrest. She sought and was granted an exception to the guidelines of her sentence to meet NBC's Matt Lauer for an interview Tuesday. It will be broadcast later.

State Circuit Judge Wayne Timmerman accepted Lafave's guilty plea to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery in November.

He granted permission Monday for the interview, according to court records.

"Debbie really wanted to explain her bipolar illness in hopes that it might be beneficial to people when they hear about it," her attorney John Fitzgibbons said.

Court records show prosecutor Michael Sinacore didn't object because the 25-year-old was not compensated, a condition of her sentence.

Lafave's case made tabloid headlines all over the world after her sexual liaisons with the student were made public.

The boy told investigators the two had sex in a classroom at Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace near Tampa, in her town house and once in a vehicle while his 15-year-old cousin drove them around.

[Rhonda_Melones]

This really drives me up a wall. I don't know if it's the whole Mrs. Robinson complex or what but it is SUCH a double standard that male teachers repeatedly have sex with young girls go to jail for rape and female teachers who repeatedly have sex with young boys (or girls in one case I heard of) seem to be treated differently especially if they end up getting pregnant with the boy's baby! I think we all know about that LaTorneau lady who went to jail, got out of jail and married the boy but I think she still can't see her kids because she's now a registered sex offender but what about that other woman in GA who was forced to marry the under aged boy because she was pregnant with his kid? I mean if the tables were turned he would be thrown in jail for rape not forced to marry the girl (like the case in GA where the 18 yo was jailed for taping oral sex with his 16 yo girlfriend). The double standards REALLY have to stop!

[Vixynne Rose]

I'm disgusted by the "she really wants to take this opportunity to help people understand her bipolar condition" line.

My dad's bipolar. He's had electroshock therapy that left him glassy-eyed and confused for days. He's on such strong medication that I barely recognize who lives behind his eyes most of the time. He doesn't go on talk shows to "explain" his condition. Those of us who want to grasp bipolar (or manic depression as it used to be known) are well able to go read a book, a medical website, or talk to a licensed professional to answer our questions.

It's a publicity stunt, plain and stomach-turningly simple. She gets to parade in front of cameras, dab a kleenex at her delicately-running mascara, and tell America what it's like to live in her tortured mind. Feh. She's full of it.

She got horned-up for an underage boy and got caught. Period. She's not "special" for this; she doesn't deserve fifteen more minutes of fame to wring her hands on some seedy talk show--she's a felon, not a celebrity. And I agree with what others are saying about the double standard; I'm not sure how it came to pass, but yeah, our society does tend to paint female sex predators differently from male ones, unfair as that is.
I wonder how the boy she got caught with feels about her TV appearance. :roll:

[Mistress Lisette]

I'm disgusted by the "she really wants to take this opportunity to help people understand her bipolar condition" line.

My dad's bipolar. He's had electroshock therapy that left him glassy-eyed and confused for days. He's on such strong medication that I barely recognize who lives behind his eyes most of the time. He doesn't go on talk shows to "explain" his condition. Those of us who want to grasp bipolar (or manic depression as it used to be known) are well able to go read a book, a medical website, or talk to a licensed professional to answer our questions.

It's a publicity stunt, plain and stomach-turningly simple. She gets to parade in front of cameras, dab a kleenex at her delicately-running mascara, and tell America what it's like to live in her tortured mind. Feh. She's full of it.<snip>
I agree 100%. One of my sisters is bipolar and she's just trying to live her life as best as she can, not wanting to "explain" her condition, either. (My other sis is paranoid schizophrenic. I wasn't kidding when on the other thread I said I was considered the "normal" one! :lol:)

[Ysobelle]

I'm not sure how it came to pass, but yeah, our society does tend to paint female sex predators differently from male ones, unfair as that is.


I'm gonna take a wild guess it's for a few reasons: there are FAR fewer of them, and they're less likely to kill their victims. And they're more likely to BE the victim in the first place.

And it's far easier for a man to rape a woman than the other way around. I'd imagine there's less physical violence, if nothing else, though the emotional scars could be just as hideous.

[Buxom Wench]

I'm gonna take a wild guess it's for a few reasons: there are FAR fewer of them, and they're less likely to kill their victims. And they're more likely to BE the victim in the first place.

And it's far easier for a man to rape a woman than the other way around. I'd imagine there's less physical violence, if nothing else, though the emotional scars could be just as hideous.

I have no stats or proof but here's my theory on this.
If you think about the ages of the boys being molested by women, they are at the ages (early teens or even younger) where their bodies are just experiencing alot of new sexual feelings (not sure if that's the correct phrasing). Their hormones are bouncing around like a 'tennis ball machine gone haywire'. It wouldn't take much to get a male aroused and then once there, the molester would be able to do as she pleased. Plus, I'm sure these women are finding the most vulnerable, isolated and lowest esteemed males. I mean, think about it, here's this boy, shy, alone, maybe picked on by others and then, along comes this older woman paying all sorts of "special attention" to him.

It just sickens me wether its a man or woman doing the molesting. Its not about the sex (for the most part), its about the power.

The teacher in this story is just trying to find excuses. She's a coward, and is taking the coward's way out.

Sorry, rape of anyone has a way of bringing out the protector in me and it also makes me ramble when my thoughts turn passionate on a subject.

[Torra]

There is a definite double standard here, but it doesn't extend just to rape and it's not new. Look historically at some cases where women got off because they pleaded pregnancy. I understand they are allowed a light sentence due to the desire to leave the innocent child unharmed, but as soon as she gives birth, she needs to go to jail. Just my 2 cents.

As per the issue of whether or not it's easier to rape women: I would say it's no easier or harder. It depends on the temperment of the people involved. As Bux pointed out, it's about power, not sex. So if there's a woman who is using sex only as a way to exert power over someone else, male or female, with no regard for the other person, it's rape. It doesn't matter if it involves the more conventional ideas of "force." The psychological force exerted in this particular situation would, in my opinion, exceed that of physical force. You already have the female teacher in a position of power that kids are trained to respect. So it would not be hard for her to cross the line and disregard the fact that a teacher is supposed to use that power to protect the interests of the students.

[DoñaNina]

Um... I'm bipolar.

It never made me want to have sex with a fourteen year old.

[Vixynne Rose]

Um... I'm bipolar.

It never made me want to have sex with a fourteen year old.

Exactly!
And this former teacher's little spotlight moment on a talk show is not going to make anyone more compassionate toward being bipolar, either...I'm betting a lot of people will come away thinking that all child molesters ARE bipolar, or that being bipolar makes you more likely to do these things. I don't have any scientific data to back me up, but that just doesn't sound likely to me.

I hate that we as a society like to lift up the rocks and poke around at the disgusting things we find under them, in the name of entertainment. Because that's what her appearance on a talk show is: shock value entertainment, not education, and certainly not prevention.

Gah. I'm ranting. I'll stop now. :mmph:
::sits on hands::

[DoñaNina]

Gah. I'm ranting. I'll stop now. :mmph:
::sits on hands::

Go on and rant. I have NO IDEA how being bipolar has anything to do with wanting to have sex with a kid. It doesn't work that way. I better not get shit from people about this because of that woman, because I would never DREAM of doing that with a child. It's disgusting she would even TRY to make that connection.

[ProfessionalPirate]

My personal opinion on this is pretty straight. Child Molestors and rapists need a swift and simple punishment. They need to be "removed from the human gene pool" - however that be accomplished, whether through lock and key or 100K Volts on "Sparky", (yeah, I know its 'cruel and unusual' - but so is molestation).

I see absolutley no difference between male or female offenders - the act is the same whomever did it and there is absolutley explanation for it - certainly not one allowing one a public medium to "explain" a get-out for that individual.

She, as with all these kinds of people, male and female, need to be locked away for good, and in solitary confiement the entire time if I had anything to do with it.

PJ

[Selena]

I'm disgusted by the "she really wants to take this opportunity to help people understand her bipolar condition" line.

My dad's bipolar. He's had electroshock therapy that left him glassy-eyed and confused for days. He's on such strong medication that I barely recognize who lives behind his eyes most of the time. He doesn't go on talk shows to "explain" his condition. Those of us who want to grasp bipolar (or manic depression as it used to be known) are well able to go read a book, a medical website, or talk to a licensed professional to answer our questions.

It's a publicity stunt, plain and stomach-turningly simple. She gets to parade in front of cameras, dab a kleenex at her delicately-running mascara, and tell America what it's like to live in her tortured mind. Feh. She's full of it.

She got horned-up for an underage boy and got caught. Period. She's not "special" for this; she doesn't deserve fifteen more minutes of fame to wring her hands on some seedy talk show--she's a felon, not a celebrity. And I agree with what others are saying about the double standard; I'm not sure how it came to pass, but yeah, our society does tend to paint female sex predators differently from male ones, unfair as that is.
I wonder how the boy she got caught with feels about her TV appearance. :roll:

I, too, agree 100%. You have put it to words so well, I have nothing to add.

[crimsonpirate78]

hang the bitch and get it over

[MoonWench]

It's because of people like her that I have to fight to keep working if my being bi-polar comes out.

Oh and the thought of raping anyone makes me sick!