Unlike the "cool mom" who got sentenced to 30 years in jail for having sex with a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old, a "cool teacher" received no jail time after having sex with her 14-year-old student. See? I told you the 30-year sentence was excessive.
A female teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with a 14-year-old student, avoiding prison as part of a plea agreement.Debra Lafave, 25, whose sensational case made tabloid headlines, will serve three years of house arrest and seven years' probation. She pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery. ...
The boy told investigators the two had sex in a classroom at the school, located in Temple Terrace near Tampa, in her Riverview town house and once in a vehicle while his 15-year-old cousin drove them around Marion County.
The best part? Prosecutors apparently bought the defense's argument that Mrs. Lafave was simply too attractive to be sent to jail.
After Tuesday's hearing, Lafave's attorney, John Fitzgibbons, said the plea was "a fair resolution of this case." Asked how she felt afterward, Lafave said "tired."Fitzgibbons said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave.
It doesn't really sound fair, but at least I won't have to worry about ever being sent to prison.
(HT: James Taranto, again!)
Michael,
One "or more" wrongs does not justify your statement nor make you right. Our system is flawed, this I will agree with, but I do not know of a better system throughout the world.
Cool Mom got what she deserved. Cool Teacher did not.
well, there's a question mark in our sex-crazed society's mind as to how disappointed a fourteen-year-old boy really would be to have sex with a Cool Teacher. But if I'm ever convicted with anything, I look forward to trying out the "I'm too pretty for jail" defence myself...