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...case was shocking, scandalous yet oddly familiar. Debra Lafave, 25, a stunning blond schoolteacher, faced charges in two Florida counties in connection with a sexual relationship she had with one of her students, a boy of just 14. Investigators said she had had sex with the boy in her classroom, at her home and in the back of her SUV. Last month charges were dropped in Marion County, where the SUV incident is said to have occurred, because the boy's family did not want him dragged through a tawdry trial. They had worked out a plea agreement in Hillsborough...
...MARCH 2006, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.: In a plea agreement, music teacher Carol Flannigan, 51, began serving a five-year prison sentence (to be followed by 10 years of sex-offender probation) for lewd and lascivious molestation of a student that began when the boy was 11. The relationship lasted 19 months, say police...
...SEPTEMBER 2005, WORCESTER, MASS.: Amber Jennings, 32, pleaded guilty to disseminating harmful materials to a minor (e-mails and nude photos and videos of herself and the teen) and was sentenced to two years' probation. A charge of sex with a minor was dropped. Jennings was the boy's freshman-English teacher; the two later became involved in a six-month sexual relationship that ended when...
...gangly, immature adolescent boy holds little appeal for the vast majority of women. But such qualities are precisely what these women find irresistible, says Dr. Gilbert Kliman, medical director of the Children's Psychological Health Center Inc. in San Francisco. Kliman has consulted on several cases involving female teachers and counselors who sexually assaulted young boys. "The fact that these boys were all at the dawn of their sexuality and were inexperienced seemed to heighten the interest of these women," he says. "They found the instructional quality of the relationship very appealing...
...socially naive and have a desperate need to be liked by their students, says University of Connecticut psychiatrist Catherine Lewis. That ultimately makes them unable to maintain proper teacher-student boundaries. And because they may lack the emotional maturity to negotiate age-appropriate relationships, being with a young boy feels less threatening to them. "They typically have had dysfunctional childhoods and poor relationships with their fathers as well as a pattern of abusive relationships," says Lewis. Whereas predatory male teachers often become involved with a series of young female students, female predators usually become fixated on one particular boy. "They...