Debra Lafave – I Spoke Too Soon
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Just recently I posted about how Debra Lafave has served two full years of house arrest successfully and was expected to ask for the remainder of her sentence to be converted to probation. My comment that she has served thus far without incident was spoken too soon. Lafave was arrested this morning for a probation violation.
You might remember Debra Lafave as the Hillsborough County English teacher who admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old student. She entered her guilty plea on November 22, 2005.
She was arrested today by the probation office, though details about her violation have not yet been made public. A local press conferences is expected in about an hour. I will try to update at that point.
While I’m normally rather unrelenting when it comes to child exploitation of any kind, this new case is ridiculous.
Those on parole are normally expected to report employment changes to the parole officer, especially while under house arrest. Since officials in this case were aware of Debra’s employment, part of the blame belongs to them. Maybe all of it.
Just about everyone knows that restaurants regularly recruit teenagers to staff their establishments. How does one work side by side with a minor without establishing contact?
Restauraunt employees are expected to communicate and work as a team. Waitresses, hostesses, kitchen employees and management are always communicating with each other in order to expedite hot food and cleanliness expectations of the customer.
This case is a sham, as it would appear at this point that parole officials are either dumber than a rock, unrealistic in their expectations, or simply fell asleep at the wheel.
The Parole Officer could have rejected this employment arrangement altogether, knowing that contact with minors was an unrealistic expectation of this kind of employment. Instead, thousands upon thousands of tax dollars will be spent prosecuting a case where the arrangements were dubious from the start.
Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice
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