Hot For Teacher II

What the hell is going on down there in Florida? We all remember the case of Debra Lafave, the former middle school teacher who plead guilty in 2005 to statutory rape charges, for her affair with a 14 year old male student back in 2004. Now another teacher in Florida, 29 year old Stephanie Ragusa, has been charged with Lewd or Lascivious Battery and two counts of Sex with a Minor. Investigators say that Ragusa engaged in oral sex and sexual intercourse with the then 15 year old male victim. During the relationship, Police say Ragusa had sex with the child 20 times and she even served the minor alcohol. The young victim positively identified two tattoos that Ragusa has, which can only be seen when the defendant has no pants on. In an earlier post, I suggested that Lafave only got a slap on the wrist for her crimes because she is a woman, and her victim was a male teen. I also stated that there were many jokes about the case suggesting that the boy victim was "lucky". If the perpetrator were male and his victim a female student, the public outcry and court sentence would have been harsher. Is this fair? I think not. This time around in the Ragusa case, I suggest that we take it more seriously and hope the court imposes a harsher sentence. This and the story links below, are examples of the overall decline of our education system and terrible acts being committed in our schools. It sure feels like we are leaving some children behind.


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