A middle-school reading teacher whose sexual liaisons with a 14-year-old student made tabloid headlines broke off plea negotiations with prosecutors and will claim insanity at a December trial, her attorney said today.Debra Lafave, 24, was under such emotional stress that she didn't know right from wrong when she had sex with a 14-year-old student numerous times in June 2004, attorney John Fitzgibbons said after a brief court hearing. A Dec. 5 trial date was set.
Recently married, in good health, with no kids - yet somehow there was enough stress in her life to make her commit statuatory rape with one of her students? Multiple times? And hide it well while she was doing it? Mmm-hmm. Sure. Her ex-husband believes she's not the woman he married, but I believe he feels she's guilty of deception and idiocy, not insanity.
Posted by kswygert at July 27, 2005 10:37 AM