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TAMPA - A judge is set to decide Thursday whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children of her family and friends.

TAMPA - The ankle monitor has come off. Schoolteacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave no longer will have to provide Florida Department of Corrections officials her daily schedule, and they no longer will keep minute-by-minute track of her whereabouts. With Lafave having served more than 2 1/2 years of a three-year house-arrest sentence, a judge commuted the final five months to probation. She will remain on probation for seven years. Probation officials were to remove Lafave's electronic ankle monitor at their Plant City office this morning, said DOC spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger. Shortly before 10 a.m., officials in Plant City said Lafave already had...

TAMPA - Teacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave gets to spend her final three months of house arrest on probation instead. A judge ordered Tuesday that the 27-year-old former middle school teacher will be released from house arrest on July 11. She'll serve straight probation instead, which is less restrictive and doesn't require her to wear a monitoring bracelet. She was sentenced in November 2005 to three years' house arrest and seven years of probation for having sex with a 14-year-old student. Prosecutor Mike Sinacore objects to Tuesday's decision. He says the victim's family objects, too.

TAMPA -- In just one hour Wednesday afternoon, 97 patrons of Danny Boy's Restaurant in Sun City Center signed a petition asking that Debra Lafave return to work. Lafave quit the restaurant last month while a probation officer investigated whether she had an inappropriate and private conversation with a female co-worker who is a minor. Ed Leary, 78, one of the organizers of the petition drive, said the group now is trying to figure out where to send the petition. He guessed it would be forwarded to the Florida Attorney General's Office. Lafave, 27, was arrested Tuesday and charged with...

A True Crime Update on current ongoing true crimes plus some old ones pop up again. Seems beautiful sexy teacher Deb LaFave is back in the news. She had sex with a young boy and was supposed to keep a low profile. Well she didn't. Plus more on the kooks in the Westboro Church, and, no surprise, Aruban murderer Joran Vandersloop gets off again. The Omaha mall shooting, a toddler that saved her mother's life, and Mike Huckabee's hero, an Arkansas rapist who, once Huckabee jumped through hoops to free him for one rape, promptly went out and raped and...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested on charges of violating her probation, state records show. According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other subjects with a teenage waitress at a restaurant where both worked. One of the terms of her probation was that she was not allowed to have unsupervised contact with minors without permission. Lafave, 26, is serving three years of house arrest and seven years of probation after pleading guilty to having sex with the boy in a...

In an blockbusting EXCLUSIVE interview on Dateline NBC, correspondent Matt Lauer sat down with Debra Lafave, the 23 year-old teacher who had sex with a 14 year-old boy on several occasions which made national headlines. For some ungodly reason, NBC decided this was a groundbreaking story that needed to be told to America. I have one question… Why is Debra Lafave on television? There have been notable people who have earned the right to recognition. Sport’s heroes, movie stars, business and religious leaders, respected politicians and cultural groundbreakers have all proven worthy of the media attention paid to them. That...

Editor's note: The newest edition of Whistleblower magazine pulls the covers off the shocking number of cases of lust-filled teachers, especially women, who have sexual relations with their students. Find out more here! The father of the 14-year-old Florida boy who had sex with teacher Debra LaFave is outraged the woman is getting off the hook without any time in prison. "I think she should have gone to jail, I've stuck by that all along," said the boy's father, whose name was withheld during an interview last night on the Fox News Channel. "It's a horrible, ugly thing that she's...

Debra Lafave's charges in having sex with a minor have been dropped, and her excuse was bipolar. Was it really bipolar syndrome that coerced the sexual act, or was it a little girl dying for attention? Debra Lafave is the 25 year old school teacher who had sexual intercourse with a 14 year old boy in her classroom, her house, and even in her car. Debra was eventually apprehended and charged with statutory rape against the delinquency of a minor. The odd fact is Ms. Lafave blames a psychological disorder known as bipolar syndrome, a disorder that some would call...

State prosecutors decided Tuesday to drop charges against a former teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. The decision, announced hours after a judge rejected a plea deal for Debra Lafave, means the victim won't have to testify. Prosecutors and defense attorneys had urged the judge to accept the deal for the sake of the boy involved. A psychiatrist who examined the teen-ager told the judge at a previous hearing that the boy suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and does not want to testify. Marion County Circuit Judge Hale Stancil, however, said the...

CNN Breaking News ALL charges against Debra Lafave have been dropped. Devoloping

TAMPA - An Ocala judge rejected a plea deal that would have given house arrest to Debra Lafave, a former Greco Middle School English teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. “It is the opinion of this court that accepting the proposed plea agreement would undermine the credibility of this court, and the criminal justice system as a whole, and would erode public confidence in our schools,” wrote Marion County Circuit Court Judge Hale Stancil Tuesday. At a hearing earlier this month, Stancil read a prepared statement that suggested he was not inclined to support the deal. Prosecutors...

Dang Van Dinh, a male chemistry teacher at Orlando's Boone High School, was ordered to prison for five years for having sex with a 15-year-old girl. But Debra Lafave, a female teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old student in suburban Tampa, was merely placed on house arrest for her crime.

CNN) -- A judge in Marion County, Florida, on Thursday rejected a proposed plea deal for Debra Lafave, who pleaded guilty in another county to having sex with a 14-year-old student while she was a teacher. "The agreement went below the guidelines, and I'm not willing to go below the guidelines," Judge Hale Stancil told CNN, without elaborating. The trial in Marion County for the 25-year-old former reading teacher is set for April 10. Lafave faces similar charges in Marion County because one of the alleged sexual incidents took place there. For the Hillsborough offenses, Lafave was sentenced to three...

NOVEMBER 22--In a sweetheart plea deal, a former Florida middle school teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old male student escaped a jail term today. Debra Lafave, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and was sentenced to three years of community control, or house arrest, and ordered to register as a sex offender. Lafave's plea came on the eve of trial and was approved by the teen victim and his family (in a court affidavit filed today, the boy's mother wrote that a trial would "negatively affect my son's emotional and psychological well-being"). Lafave, who...

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida teacher charged with having sex with a minor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior as part of a plea deal. The deal provides that Greco Middle School teacher Debra Lafave, 25, will not serve time in jail in connection with multiple sex acts with a 14-year-old student unless she violates the terms of the plea agreement, which include seven years of probation. "I accept full responsibility for my actions," Lafave said during Tuesday's trial in Tampa. "To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hell hole is...

Tampa, Florida - A Riverview woman is upset not only because her boyfriend dumped her for another woman, but because of who that woman is and the time she may spend around her child. That woman is Debra Lafave. Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. It is a confusing story that involves the ex-girlfriend of Lafave's current boyfriend, Andrew Beck. We learn about the triangle from court documents. In a motion for protection, the ex-girlfriend says Lafave came to the restaurant she works at and told her, 'I’m Andrew's first love and he would do anything...

NEW YORK If Debra Lafave is convicted of sexual misconduct and lewd exhibition, the middle school teacher will be part of a frightening trend: A report to Congress Wednesday found that one in every 10 school-age kids endures sexual misconduct by a teacher or other school employee. Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student at least five times at her home, at school and in the back of her SUV. The student identified butterfly and Chinese letter tattoos on Lafave's body for investigators. The 23-year-old reading specialist at Greco Middle School near Ocala, Fla., turned herself into...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The 24-year-old Florida middle school teacher accused of having sex with one of her students appeared in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing. Debra LaFave is accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy at least two times in Ocala, Fla.

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student was once the sweetheart of local Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, friends of hers told ABC Action News, and a former lesbian girlfriend of hers is now in the hospital because of the stress surrounding the case.