Would any of you think I was pathetic if I told you I had a google news alert set up for "Debra LaFave?"
This just in....
Posted on Wed, Aug. 04, 2004
Tampa teacher pleads not guilty to more charges of sex with student
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. - A 23-year-old middle-school teacher pleaded not guilty to two more charges of having sex with a 14-year-old former student, her attorney said.
Written pleas were filed on Debra Beasley Lafave's behalf Tuesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery in Hillsborough County, said her attorney, John Fitzgibbons. She pleaded not guilty last month to similar charges against her in Marion County.
Her scheduled court appearance Thursday was waived.
In a case that garnered international attention, investigators say Lafave had sex with the boy at her Riverview town house, in a portable classroom at Greco Middle School and in the back of her sport utility vehicle while his 15-year-old cousin drove them around the Ocala area.
The teen told investigators that he and Lafave got to know each other during a class trip in May, and their sexual relationship began June 3. She was arrested June 21.