Debra LaFave: still too good-looking for jail

Debra LaFave - not willful enough

Debra LaFave must be back in the news, the Plains Feeder SiteMeter was unusually high yesterday. Evidently Ms. LaFave, a former teacher who admitted and was convicted of having sex with a 14 year old student, has been providently spared any prison time for violating terms of the house-arrest she received for her crime.

Its my contention that Debra is just too damn cute for prison. From Tampa Bay Online:

Conversations with an underage girl that included handshakes, hugs and slaps on the derriere were in violation of Debra Lafave's house arrest, a judge determined Thursday.

Still, Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett ruled, the violation was neither willful nor substantial. Lafave, therefore, will continue house arrest under the current conditions. Had the violation been more serious, Lafave could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Lafave, 27, smiled brightly as she walked from the courthouse Thursday afternoon, her parents and lawyer by her side. John Fitzgibbons, her lawyer, said he would resume efforts to get her final year of house arrest commuted to probation.

I note that Ms. LaFave has never had to appear before a female judge. It could make a difference, many of the female judges I've run up against have been cruel, heartless martinets.

Kelsey Peterson, a Nebraska teacher similarly accused of extracurricular sex with a 13 year old student, probably won't be so lucky. In my opinion, poor Kelsey just isn't good-looking enough, even by Nebraska standards, to avoid jail. I wonder how tall Kelsey is?

Debra LaFave busted for house arrest violation

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When the Plains Feeder's visitometer goes off the scale for no apparent reason, I check to see if Debra LaFave is in the news again. Sure enough, the too good-looking for jail former teacher sentenced to house arrest back in March of 2006 for extracurricular sex with her students has been arrested again.

This time it was for some sort of convoluted violation of the terms of her Florida house arrest. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, she violated Condition 69 of her probation, which states she cannot discuss "Non-work related issues such as family problems, friends, high school, personal life, boyfriend issues and sexual issues" with any minors.

Who cares? At least it is a good excuse for thousands of curious cats to search the internets for pictures of the sex-crazed schoolmarm.
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Local joke: I'll bet Omaha defense attorney James Martin Davis wishes his sex-crazed client, former Lexington Nebraska teacher, Kelsey Peterson, looked more like Ms. LaFave.

Google: Fred Thompson's Wife is not Debra LaFave

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As I mentioned in the previous post, the Plains Feeder has been getting an increasing number of hits from cats doing Google searches for Fred Thompson and his lovely wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson. This is all well and good, but...

Today, the Google Image searches for "Jeri Kehn" have produced results linking to one of the old feeder's posts about Debra LaFave, the naughty schoolteacher. This seems odd, since PF has published a nice picture of Fred and Jeri.

Could some twisted liberal geek that works for Googliath have tweaked the algorithm for this particular search? Official Google policy to obfuscate searches for Fred Thompson? Daily Kos readers skewing the results deliberately? Michelle Malkin suspects Google has a bias and ain't afraid to apply it to their search engines. World Net Daily and others agree.
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For some very nice pictures of Jeri with a smiling Fred Thompson, see this post by Riley at Virginia Virtucon, reporting that Robert Novak mentioned in his column that Jeri is supportive of a Thompson candidacy.
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Any guesses when Fred will announce? The Chuck Hagel announcement pool was a bust.

Arab - Israeli Agreement

Arab and Israeli Feedlot Visitors Agree

They both seem to be titillated by pictures of Debra LaFave. For the last 24 hours, the Plains Feeder has been getting an inordinately large number of "Google Image" hits from Israel and Saudi Arabia. They are all looking for pictures of Debra LaFave. Examples of these searches are shown above.

I guess this is good; it shows there are areas of agreement. Imagine, however, how much more nasty Ms. La Fave must look to a leering Arab than to a leering Israeli. The Arab isn't even supposed to think about such criminal salaciousness; the Israelis are as inured to nudity and sexual license as Americans. Nobody can leer like an Arab.
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Every now and then, the Plains Feeder gets a flurry of visitors seeking the picture of Debra LaFave astride a motorcycle. When this happens, I usually check to see if she has been in the news again. Since the former teacher copped a walk after confessing to having sex with one of her students, then gave an interview to Matt Lauer, she has been keeping a pretty low profile.

Maybe there's a LaFave buzz on the Middle East street.

Debra Lafave: "Matt Lauer wanted it and I gave it to him"

Debra LaFave on House Arrest

You remember Debra LaFave. She is the naughty school teacher convicted of seducing a 14 year male pupil, and, after some courtroom finagling was only sentenced to house arrest. My guess was she was 'too good looking' for jail. Well, Debra is back in the news, thanks to Matt Lauer, the Today Show host with no Katie Couric type ambitions. How did a chump like Matt Lauer get an interview with her? Like she said about her 14 year old victim, "He wanted it, and I gave it to him."

Miss LaFave was granted an exception to the otherwise onerous terms of her house arrest to go to New York City for an interview with Mr. Hairplugs himself. NBC even had to get a judge's permission for her to stay in a nice hotel in NYC, since she is officially a registered sex offender.

I can't imagine the hell she must be going through.
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Update: Read about the Lauer interview.
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Update: I have been watching the Lauer interview "Crossing the Line"on Dateline and Ms. Lafave seems well schooled in all the latest pop-psychology explanations, (wah wah childhood, etc.) besides the obvious one. She is just too dang naughty to be trying to teach school. It was bound to come to something bad.
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Addendum: Read the book Gorgeous Disaster by Debra's ex-husband Owen Lafave, which one reviewer says, "pushes the frontier of lurid to new continents". Debra Lafave herself can't profit financially from her story; a 'Son of Sam Law' applies. I guess 'profit' doesn't include expense-paid trips to the big city for glitzy TV interviews. Too bad Dave Berkowitz, the real Son of Sam murderer, can't get an interview with Matt. I bet he'd enjoy the trip.
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Be sure to read the comments!

Debra Lafave Walks

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From Central Florida's local6.com: Sex crazed school teacher Debra Lafave gets a walk for having sexual relations with one of her middle-school students. "She's just too damned good looking to send to jail; it would shock my conscience," said the Marion County judge.
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Update: The mother of Ms. LaFave's student victim is unhappy with the outcome. she is quoted by central Florida's WESH TV, saying "she knows of at least four other teachers in Marion County who pleaded guilty to the same thing. They didn't get prison time and they didn't get as much probation as Lafave." These sex crazed teachers must be like mice: see one, count ten.
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Updated: Get the story behind the interview: "Matt Lauer wanted it and I gave it to him".