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The Lafave case: a timeline
By Times Staff Writer
Published March 22, 2006
JUNE 21, 2004: Greco Middle School teacher Debra Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. She is arrested and charged with committing lewd or lascivious battery on a person under the age of 16.
JUNE 25, 2004: Marion County sheriff's investigators issue a warrant for Lafave's arrest on two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. She turns herself in three days later.
APRIL 2005: Debra Lafave is divorced from her husband, Owen.
NOV. 22, 2005: Lafave pleads guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors in Hillsborough and Marion County. She is sentenced to three years of house arrest and seven years' probation. She is now classified as a sex offender.
DEC. 8, 2005: Marion County Circuit Judge Hale R. Stancil rejects Lafave's plea deal in Marion County and sets a trial for April 10.
MARCH 21, 2006: After hearing more testimony, Stancil again rejects Lafave's plea deal. Prosecutors in Marion County respond by dropping all charges against Lafave, allowing her Hillsborough plea deal to stand.
Compiled by Times researcher Cathy Wos, using Times files.
[Last modified March 22, 2006, 02:16:23]
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