Debra LaFave Free From House Arrest

Florida Tampa Florida teacher who confessed to having sex with a 14-year-old student is no longer under house arrest despite objections from prosecutors.

by Associated Press

Published: Fri, July 11, 2008 - 9:51 am CST

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Tampa teacher-turned-sex offender Debra
Lafave is free from her house arrest.

The 27-year-old Lafave is the middle-school teacher who avoided
prison by pleading guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old student.
She finishes her house arrest sentence Friday but still has to
serve seven years of less-restrictive probation.

Her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, says she is doing well in her
treatment for a mental health disorder, has completed community
service and paid all her fines.

Lafave has served more than 2 1/2 years of house arrest. A judge
released her from it early over the objections of prosecutors.

Her story captured headlines worldwide, and Fitzgibbons once
told reporters that she wouldn't be safe in prison because she's
too attractive.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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igotbanned83 Says:

Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Im just trying to figure out three things:

A.) Why is she not being ridiculed in the same way that a Man would be if the roles were reversed? Many have talked bad things of this lady, and justice has been served, supposedly, yet not in the way it would have been had the roles reversed. Everywhere there would be talk of “kill him, hang him” yet with her, its diff.

B.) Where were these teachers when I was in school?

C.) What did she see in a 14 yr old boy? TONS of girls who are 14 could pass for 18, so sometimes its a teency bit understandable. I say a teency bit strictly from a physiological standpoint. But who has ever seen a manly looking 14 yr old boy?