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Sheriff's Office report: Island teacher admitted inappropriate behavior with student
The State ^ | 14 December 2013 | Rebecca Lurye

Posted on 12/15/2013 12:58:06 PM PST by Gamecock

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC — A Hilton Head Island High School substitute teacher admitted she sent an inappropriate picture to a student, kissed him and asked him to buy marijuana for her, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report released Saturday.

Margaret Ann LaMantia, 23, was charged Tuesday with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and disseminating harmful material to a minor, according to the jail log.

During an investigation of the incident, LaMantia, a long-term Spanish substitute at the school, told deputies she and a 16-year-old male student in her class began talking around Nov. 25. They continued communicating through social media over Thanksgiving break, according to the report on the incident.

She admitted to using the SnapChat phone application to send him a risque picture because the student "was persistent and kept asking for it," the report said. She told deputies she was unsure if she sent him other "inappropriate" pictures.

The app allows photos to be viewed for a few seconds before they are deleted. However, the student reportedly saved several pictures from LaMantia using the application SnapCapture, which does not alert the sender their images are being saved.

After Thanksgiving, the two began talking in LaMantia's classroom after school, sometimes about marijuana and sex, the report said.

She allegedly offered to tutor him, the student told the Sheriff's Office.

LaMantia told deputies she may have "alluded" that something could happen between them.

On Dec. 6, LaMantia allegedly asked the student to buy her marijuana for a friend who was going away, the report said.

About 6:30 p.m., she picked him up from his job and the two drove to Folly Field Beach to talk, the student told deputies. There, the two kissed for a few seconds and the student briefly touched LaMantia over her clothes, she told deputies. The student said he asked for oral sex, which she refused, the report said.

LaMantia told him they were not "going to do this," and dropped the student off at his parent's house about 9 p.m., according to the report.

The student, however, told officers she invited him to a party in Georgia, stating, "If you go to the party with me, we can spend some time alone."

On Tuesday, the student's father learned his son had been fired from his job because his employer smelled marijuana, the report said. The 16 year old then informed his dad of the Dec. 6 incident, prompting the man to file a report with the school resource officer.

LaMantia, who is no longer an employee of the Beaufort County School District, remained in the Beaufort County Detention Center on Saturday,with bail set at a total of $25,000.

The district completed its own investigation of the incident, but reached Thursday, spokesman Jim Foster would not provide details.

The Sheriff's Office initially declined to release the full report, citing its ongoing investigation.


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KEYWORDS: arth; governmentschools; publicschools; southcarolina
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To: loungitude; Godzilla
Extra nuclear Guilty!

Godzilla is SO going to rag you about that comment.

;-)
41 posted on 12/15/2013 6:33:08 PM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: RandallFlagg; loungitude
Godzilla is SO going to rag you about that comment.

Indeed


42 posted on 12/15/2013 6:36:43 PM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Godzilla

LOL!!!


43 posted on 12/15/2013 6:37:28 PM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Gamecock
She admitted to using the SnapChat phone application to send him a risque picture because the student "was persistent and kept asking for it," the report said.

Gee, why didn't I think of that when I was in high school.

Oh, that's right, all my teachers were like 85 years old.

44 posted on 12/15/2013 6:44:33 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: KAESNO2

Remember, “A 2 at 10, is a 10 at 2!”


45 posted on 12/15/2013 9:35:09 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: Chode

I think she was found guilty, but her lawyer avoided jail time by arguing that she was too pretty for jail.


46 posted on 12/15/2013 9:41:16 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Gamecock

She teaches Braille?


47 posted on 12/15/2013 10:13:37 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (A Communist is nothing more than an honest Democrat...)
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To: Moonman62
yeah, i guess she pled out to a no jail plea
48 posted on 12/16/2013 6:31:12 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Gamecock

OK, so this was, by my way of thinking, just about the pot deal.

Hon, you’re in south carolina. Find a bluegrass band. They have weed.


49 posted on 12/16/2013 12:13:19 PM PST by dmz
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To: Tax-chick

T-C, these are ‘special’ threads. They’re not about the topic.

They’re about whether or not the poster would have sex with the offender, and as you can now see, some here need a few beers.

Pretty much every schoolteacher/sex thread is really about how hot the teacher is.

This one piqued my interest because it seems there was no conusummation. Leading me to believe, she teased him only enough to score some weed for her.


50 posted on 12/16/2013 12:17:24 PM PST by dmz
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To: dmz
... she teased him only enough to score some weed for her.

Teachers are some of our best people ...

51 posted on 12/16/2013 1:55:23 PM PST by Tax-chick (New computer, unnngh. I just wanted the old one to keep working!)
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To: KAESNO2

I think you mean a couple of kegs


52 posted on 12/16/2013 4:25:14 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: metmom; wintertime

What, again?


53 posted on 03/22/2014 2:32:03 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Gamecock; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

54 posted on 03/22/2014 2:44:35 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Tax-chick

They are just commenting on her surface. It is something of a FR tradition, as it the question, “Would Laz hit it?”

Given this subject falls into the ‘hefty heifer’ category, Laz’ reaction could be debated.


55 posted on 03/22/2014 5:58:27 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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