Reply #115: Update

[JayS]

June 30, 2004, 7:07AM
Teacher accused of sex with student
Woman faces charges in two counties
Associated Press
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2654189



TAMPA, Fla. -- A 23-year-old middle-school teacher was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old student in a classroom, at her apartment and, once, in a vehicle while the teen's 15-year-old cousin drove.

Detectives said that the cousins provided matching statements incriminating Debra Beasley Lafave and that the 14-year-old described Lafave's apartment and her tattoos and birthmarks.

Lafave, who teaches reading in the Tampa suburb of Temple Terrace, was arrested there last week on lewd and lascivious battery charges, accused of having sex with the teen earlier this month at her apartment and in a portable classroom at Greco Middle School.

She was out on bond on those charges when she turned herself in Monday in Marion County, about 80 miles north of Tampa, where the cousin lives. Marion County authorities say Lafave had sex with the student in the back of her sport utility vehicle while the cousin drove them around the Ocala area. There, she is charged with lewd and lascivious battery and exhibition. She was released on $25,000 bail.

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