2. Margaret De Barraicua
This
Sacramento teacher was 30-years-old when police found her in her car with a 16-year-old male student in 2005. The arresting officer reported steamy
windowsand two people moving around inside. Oh, and De Barraicau’s infant son was strapped into a safety seat in the back. No big
deal. She pleaded guilty to four felony counts of
statutory rape in November 2005 and got a year in jail.
This reading teacher from Temple Terrace, Fla. got jiggy with her 14-year-old student in a portable classroom in 2004. The cops caught wind of the affair, which Lafave denied. But when a convenience store camera caught them together, her case got thin. She was sentenced to seven years’ probation and had to register herself as asex offender.
4. Carmina Lopez
To call any of the women on this list a “cradle robber” would just be redundant. But for 32-year-old elementary school teacher Carmina Lopez, there is no better descriptor. The Palm City, Cali. instructor met her would-be beau when she was 28 and he was, um, 11. A 2009 pre-trial hearing revealed that Lopez would buy him gifts in exchange for intercourse. As of this writing, Lopez is still awaiting trial.
5. Jennifer Mally
In 2008, when investigators left the room after questioning her about a fling with a 16-year-old student, Mally, a 26-year-old high school English teacher and cheerleading coach, called her husband. “I know what I’m doing,” she told him. “I watch CSI.” So apparently the smart perps on CSI plead guilty to three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and serve six months in a concrete cell.
6. Pamela Smart
This is a good one. 23-year-old Pam Smart had an affair with Billy Floyd in 1990, a freshman at the New Hampshire high school where she worked as a media director. She and her adolescent beau conspired in murdering her husband. (Not-so) Smart said Floyd and his friends acted alone. The police didn’t buy it, and she’s been locked up in upstate New York since 1991 for accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. On the bright side, she actually got a movie deal out of her story. Sort of. She was the inspiration behind the 1995 Nicole Kidman flick, To Die For.
When a father saw his 15-year-old son zipping up his pants as he crawled out of this 40-year-old substitute teacher’s car, the jig was up, so to speak. In March 2008,Florida authorities charged her with having unlawful sex with a minor, but in court, things got even weirder. It came out that Marinelli gave the teen her underwear as a memento, and would routinely send him sexts like these ones: “How about a quickie 2 morrow afternoon ” and “U can meet me at home at 3. Real men only need 20 min! We will be alone cause there is a field trip.” She pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor and in April 2009, was sentenced to one year of house arrest. She was also required to register as a sex offender in Florida.
The 26-year-old Tompkinsville, Ken. middle school teacher was fired when it came out that she was having an affair with an eighth grader. She and the 14-year-old skipped town in January 2006, along with Comer’s 4-year-old son, and wound up in Mexico, trying to get married, when the cops found them. The teacher pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree sodomy and one count of custodial interference and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before her sentencing, Crazy Comer abruptly changed her story, accusing the 14-year-old of abducting her, holding her at gunpoint, and forcing her to drive to Mexico…then breaking a guitar over her head when she attempted to escape.
Long live the Hulk! This 28-year-old Florida math teacher was already wrestling charges for shacking up with her students when the press blew up over her love-letter affair with 17-year-old Nick Hogan, son of Hulk, while the mini Hulk was serving time in 2008. She’s still awaiting trial on multiple charges of felony sex with a minor and lewd and lascivious battery.
10. Lisa Lavoie
The troubadour. Lavoie, a 24-year-old Massachusetts elementary school teacher, took a little joy ride with one of her eighth-grade students in early 2009. The 15-year-old’s parents caught wind and called for an investigation that led to an East Coast manhunt for the road trippers. West Virginia finally nabbed them on February 23, 2009. In June, Lavoie was indicted on six counts of statutory rape and one count of enticing a minor, and was later charged with three counts of aggravated rape and abuse and three more counts of statutory rape.
11. Elizabeth Stow
Another teacher who really made the rounds with her students, this 26-year-old first-year English teacher from California was arrested in April 2005 when school officials caught wind of her steamy relationships with a handful of her 17-year-old students. Stow pleaded no contest, and in November was given a suspended sentence of nine years and ordered to serve one year in a county jail.
12. Traci Tapp
What is it with these wrestlers? New Jersey gym teacher Traci Tapp had a fling with15-year-old star wrestler Jason Eickmeyer in 2003. Turns out Tapp, known to the student body as the wannabe cool teacher who liked to show up at parties and play drinking games, had a history of these student affairs. In February 2006 she pleaded guilty to “harassment by offensive touching” but served no time. She was fined $225, and her story landed in the January 2009 Rolling Stone piece, “Sex, Lies and Phys Ed”
Beth Geisel was a boozehound. She was also a Catholic-school teacher in Albany, which canned her for having naughty time with her 16-year-old student. That tryst earned her felony charges of third-degree rape and two charges of endangering the welfare of a minor. She tried to play the victim, crying blackmail and claiming the students took advantage of her. But it didn’t help that she was known by the student body as the, er, party teacher. In September 2005, Geisel was sentenced to six months in jail.
14. Shannon Best
Finally, a lesbian. 33-year-old North Carolina social studies teacher Shannon Best had relations with her 18-year-old female student in 2008, and once caught admitted to a month-long affair that included kissing, fondling sexting. Yes, sexting. She got 45 days in jail, 18 months of probation, and a $250 fine. But at least she didn’t have to register as a sex offender. Mothers, lock up your daughters.
15. Pamela Rogers Turner
A Tennesse elementary school teacher arrested in February 2005 for frolicking with 13-year-old student. She got off relatively easy with a plea deal and an eight-year suspended sentence. Too bad she got picked up again in April 2006 for sending the lucky teen sexual pictures and videos, resulting in seven more years in state prison.
16. Rebekah Todd
Students at White River High in Buckley, Wash. described this 25-year-old gym teacher as “cool” and “hip.” She drank with them at parties and showed striptease videos in class. But she took it a little too far in March 2007 when she was arrestedfor going down on a 17-year-old football player. She pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree sexual assault and wound up with six months in jail. Just a few months in, she asked to be released because she was pregnant with her husband’s child. Lucky guy.
17. Jennifer Lea Burton
Same old story, minus the snack pack. A 39-year-old gym teacher in Orangefield, Texas had a three-month relationship with a 14-year-old female student in 2008. Burton was indicted on three counts of felony sexual assault and three counts of improper relationship between an educator and a student. She’s still awaiting trial, but felony sexual assault is punishable by up to 20 years in the slammer.
18. Nicole Long
By the time the 29-year-old Ohio high school teacher went to court on charges of sexual battery of her 17-year-old former student in 2006, she was seven months pregnant with her victim’s child. She pleaded guilty in January 2006 to third-degree sexual battery and was sentenced to 45 days in a county jail.
19. Abbiejane Swogger
This 34-year-old Pennsylvania teacher’s aide got caught red-handed in a hotel room chock-full of weed, beer, condoms and…teenaged boys. Whoops. By the time Swogger made it to trial, she had racked up 39 separate charges, including providing crack cocaine to minors. In May 2009 she was sentences to up to six years’ probation and an ensuing 36 years in the clink. She’s a registered sex offender for life.
20. Cara Dickey
Dickey, a 29-year-old high school teacher from Buffalo, was equal parts Kevorkian and pedophile. She went missing with one of her 14-year-old students in June 2008, and when the cops finally found her sleeping in her car (the kid was at the mall) it came out that Dickey had supplied him with rum, Tylenol, and NyQuil as part of an assisted suicide effort. The judge gave her four years in March 2009 for second-degree statutory rape.
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