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Stephanie Marie Ragusa, 28, of 15324 Lake Bella Vista Drive, Tampa, charged with lewd and laviscious behavior after a series (5) of incidents of sex with a 15 year old (edit:boy) who attended the middle school where she taught. Student was not in her classes, that matters apparently.

Linky from Tampa
 
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Another Student-Teacher Sex Scandal

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TAMPA -- Before a Davidsen Middle School teacher started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, she told the boy she could help him overcome his shyness, according to a new court filing.

When teacher Stephanie Ragusa, 28, left, broke her foot and was confined to a wheel chair, the boy was assigned to escort her around the school, detectives wrote in their request for a search warrant filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court.

Ragusa told the boy when they got into the elevator that she noticed he was "shy and she could break him of that," the warrant states. Then, it says, she invited him to go to her apartment after school instead of attending an after-school program.

At her apartment, they had what the boy described to police as "consensual" sex. Ragusa then took him back to school in time to be picked up by his step-mother.

The full story

What I don't understand is how (click through for the whole article to see this detail) she could afford a Lexus SUV.

For all the latest: http://badbadteacher.com/stephanie-ragusa/
 
Sources say 28-year-old Stephanie Ragusa was caught in the act Monday with one of the victims she was originally charged with having sex with.

The 15-year-old boy reportedly did not show up for school Monday, and when police went to check on him, they found him with Ragusa.

For a teacher, she sure isn't very bright, is she?:p
 
They have released some transcripts of conversations between her and one of her victims.

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79975

Tampa, Florida - Although Stephanie Ragusa smiled each time she was led of out jail, the 28-year-old teacher was worried about getting caught having sex with her student.

She was hesitant to talk about it when the victim called her. At the time, investigators were with the alleged victim, and taping the conversation.

"I get paranoid about it," Ragusa told the teen "People like to take you down. People like drama."

According to the police report, when Ragusa first hooked up with her alleged victim, she was in a wheel chair and he was her escort. The report says he pushed the wheel chair into an elevator at Davidsen Middle School. That's where Ragusa told the teenager, "I can see you're shy, and I can fix it." Police say later that day she took him to her apartment after school, where she performed oral sex and they had intercourse.

During the phone conversation, Ragusa admitted she knew what she had done was wrong.

On the phone Ragusa tells the teen it's illegal. When the alleged victim asks why, Ragusa says, "You're under 18 and I'm over 18, and I don't know, whatever."

In addition, there may be more victims. We've learned that police are investigating a rumor detailing four teenage males having sex with Ragusa.

She realized how potentially harmful this could be to her.

In the taped conversations she says "it would be all over the news and everything." When the teenager asks if she means it would be like what happened to Debra Lafave, another teacher who had sex with a student, Ragusa replies, "Yeah."

And just like the Debra Lafave case, investigators got the victim to describe details of Ragusa's body that he could only know if he saw her naked.

When the teen asks Ragusa what she remembers about it, she says "it was fun."

And it was "fun" that could and wipe the smile off Ragusa's face and put her in prison for years.

There is quite a bit of detail at this link including the PDF file with the entire transcripts.
 
It seems Ms. Ragusa was not exactly squeeky clean before she started having sex with her students.

TAMPA - Before she became a national spectacle, ridiculed and chastised for smiling eerily after her third arrest involving sex with a student, middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa had a history of breaking rules.

She stole money from one job, claimed on a resume to have graduated from college with honors when she had not and checked a box on an employment application that indicated she had never been charged with a serious crime even though she had been arrested on charges of aggravated battery and driving under the influence.

Ragusa still managed to become a teacher - and she still couldn't follow the rules.

She was disciplined for cursing in front of students. Parents remember her bringing a wine cooler to an eighth-grade party.

On March 13, Ragusa became the latest Florida teacher caught in a student sex scandal when she was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy. A month later, the 29-year-old was arrested again after investigators identified another victim, now 16.

What happened next seemed implausible.

Authorities say that two weeks after her second arrest, Ragusa drove her live-in boyfriend's white Dodge Ram truck to the 16-year-old's house and had sex with him while his friend sat in the next room. The friend took pictures with his cell phone of Ragusa kissing the teen.

So far, few people have publicly defended her or offered any explanation for the crimes with which she is charged. Ragusa's father declined to comment; other family members could not be reached. Of the friends contacted by The Tampa Tribune, only one agreed to go on the record.

Any insight into Ragusa's personality and mindset come mostly from a litany of problems spelled out in arrest reports, court documents and school district personnel files.

Last week, a transcript of a secretly taped conversation between Ragusa and one of the teens was released to the public, offering a glimpse of Ragusa's understanding of the rules about teachers having sex with students.

"No one would understand," she told the teen. "Let's put it that way. ...You can't explain it to anybody in any way where they would be like, 'Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's OK.'"

Later in the conversation, she adds, "I don't agree with, like, I don't know, society's and people's judgment about this."

Bay Area Native

Ragusa grew up in the Tampa Bay area. She adored her parents, Angela and Ricardo Ragusa, friends say, and was protective of her older brother, Christian, who is autistic. She attended St. Cecelia's Catholic School in Clearwater.

The Ragusas were a tight-knit family, friends say. In 1994, they rallied together when Christian, then 17, was transferred from LaVoy Exceptional Center to Chamberlain High School in Tampa as part of Hillsborough County's push to mainstream special education students.

Saying he was too violent, the district eventually decided to return Christian to LaVoy. Angela Ragusa, an adjunct professor at Hillsborough Community College and Florida Metropolitan University, thought the move would be too disruptive. The family fought the transfer in federal court, but eventually lost.

Ragusa graduated in 1997 from Clearwater Central Catholic High School and attended Florida State University until the summer of 2000. That's where Darren Muse of Tampa met Ragusa. He recalled a cute but awkward girl who tried hard to impress others with unbelievable stories.

"She seemed as though she'd try anything to get people's attention - even if she had to ruin her career doing something immoral - just as long as people would look at her," said Muse, who remembered meeting Ragusa at a fraternity party in the fall of 1997. "To the Stephanie I knew, that would be an acceptable trade-off."

A Downward Spiral

Muse said Ragusa told him she disappeared from Florida State University in the middle of the semester to travel with bands such as Sugar Ray. He didn't believe her. She also tried to convince him once that she was the cousin of a girl he knew, but it wasn't true, he said.

Ragusa left FSU and returned to Tampa, where she enrolled at the University of South Florida and graduated in 2002 with a degree in political science.

During that time, her mother's health deteriorated, and Ragusa's life began a downward turn.

At 22, she was arrested for stealing from her job at the Pottery Barn in Citrus Park mall. She admitted that she credited her charge card with a nearly $300 customer return. Because it was her first offense, Ragusa was allowed to participate in an intervention program. After three years, the charges were dismissed.

On March 15, 2003, her mother died of cancer at age 60. Stephanie was devastated, friends say. They describe Angela Ragusa as the family rock, taking care of everyone's needs.

Now 23, Stephanie attempted to fill those shoes, but found herself stumbling.

For a few years, Ragusa seemed to drift, her friends say, as she dabbled in journalism, worked on her master's degree at USF and volunteered with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Tampa Bay. She was nicknamed "the cat lady" because at one time she owned about a dozen cats.

She flirted with sports reporting for a couple of Web sites and wrote an article about a boxing match for the Tribune.

On Oct. 21, 2004, she was charged with aggravated battery after her 24-year-old boyfriend, Michael Zak, told authorities Ragusa hit him repeatedly with a golf club at the Plantation Palms Golf Club in Land O' Lakes after he accused her of cheating on him. The charge was dropped.

Less than a year later, on July 15, 2005, Ragusa was arrested by Tampa police at 2:30 a.m. in Ybor City for suspicion of driving under the influence. She refused a breath-alcohol test, records show. The charge was dismissed at trial.

Problems In The Classroom

In 2006, Ragusa turned her attention toward becoming a teacher. Records show her time with the Hillsborough County Schools district was turbulent from the start.

She wrote on her July 2006 teacher application to become a Hillsborough County teacher that she had never been charged with a serious crime. A routine fingerprint check uncovered her criminal history a month later. Ragusa acknowledged her previous arrests and was allowed to continue teaching after meeting with a school investigator from the professional standards office.

When applicants fail to disclose information on their resume, they usually are given a second chance if the falsehoods are considered relatively minor and if they admit it, a school district spokeswoman said. Since Ragusa's arrests, the district has decided to review its procedures for hiring teachers.

Ragusa had said on her resume she graduated from USF with honors and misspelled "summa cum laude," writing "suma cum laude" instead. There were no honors, the university said.

Problems surfaced during Ragusa's first year in the classroom. Child welfare investigators were called in September 2006 to look into accusations Ragusa physically restrained a female student to keep her from leaving the classroom. School officials referred Ragusa to an anger management class. She completed the program and was allowed to transfer from Madison Middle School to Davidsen Middle School in December 2006.

Within a few months, she started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, according to an arrest report. During the same year, she pursued a second relationship with a 15-year-old student, the report said.

Ragusa received a letter from school officials in January, reprimanding her for using profanity while speaking to students and sharing with them what she did over the weekend.

"Your actions continue to be of concern, and have been determined to be a pattern of behavior that demonstrates a loss of effectiveness," wrote Linda Kipley, general manager of professional standards. Kipley put Ragusa on notice: any more problems and she would be terminated.

The next month, Ragusa took a leave of absence. She told one of the boys she was accused of having sex with that it was for medical reasons, records show.

Personal Turmoil

Ragusa's personal life appeared equally chaotic.

She filed a petition in September 2006 for a temporary injunction against Zak. She wrote in court records that the pair broke up in May 2006, but that he wanted to get back together.

Ragusa accused Zak of leaving messages on her telephone in which he threatened to physically harm her. Zak also made threats to "blackmail" her by giving incriminating information about her to her bosses or authorities, she said in court documents.

The case was dismissed after Ragusa missed court appearances. She wrote that she was unable to attend hearings because of her school schedule.

A year later, Ragusa won a petition preventing her current boyfriend, 26-year-old Tony Irvin, from having contact or coming within 500 feet of her.

After winning the petition, though, Ragusa called and repeatedly sent text messages to him, Irvin said in court records. He pleaded not guilty to battery domestic violence. The case was later dismissed.

On Ragusa's Reunion.com profile, when asked what she thought she would be doing 10 years from now, she wrote on June 12: "I am way too old to be saying this, but I don't know. I hope I have a family as wonderful as the one I grew up in."

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/11/na-ragusa-no-stranger-to-turmoil/

Yowza :eek:
 
There's the problem. She went to catholic school. From my experience, they seem to have twisted ideas in those catholic schools about sexuality and what's acceptable.
 
There's the problem. She went to catholic school. From my experience, they seem to have twisted ideas in those catholic schools about sexuality and what's acceptable.



LOL Truer words were never spoken. I was raised Catholic until my parents divorced and my mom went to remarry. They told her she would have to get an annulment which meant her first marriage never happened in the eyes of the Catholic church. Only problem was that first marriage produced 6 kids which would mean we were all illegitimate. She told them where to shove their annulment and that was the end of our Catholic church days. To quote my mother "fucking hypocrites".:D
 
Dumb Bitch is still smiling in court!

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TAMPA – A Hillsborough County teacher accused of having sex with at least two underage students was still smiling when she was arraigned before a judge on Monday morning, and she entered a not-guilty plea in connection to the newest charges against her.

Despite the charges against her, Stephanie Ragusa smiled when she appeared before Judge J. Rogers Padgett to be formally charged. She also entered a plea of not guilty in two of the four cases she's been accused in.

Investigators say Ragusa had sexual relationships with at least two underage boys. She was first arrested in March on charges she allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old boy, and more recently she was accused of having relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

She was arrested twice— once on April 15 and again on April 28— in connection to her alleged involvement with the second victim.

Ragusa's appearance in court on Monday was in connection to the alleged relationship with the second victim, who has since turned 16.

Prosecutors say Ragusa allegedly had sex with the first victim several times between October 2006 and May 2007. They say she and the second victim had sex at various times between February 2007 and March 10, 2008.

After that, they say Ragusa continued to have sex with the second boy while she was out of jail on bond in the previous two arrests, and detectives say the third arrest came after she was caught at that same boy's home.

Ragusa is being held without bond in the Hillsborough County Jail. A new disposition date has been set for July 15.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
 
Thanks Mo4 once again classic example of recidivism rate of pedophiles. Judging by the smile on her face, she probably will not stop until the system stops her.
 
Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
She's writing to Hulk Hogan's 17 y.o. son Nick....

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-bk-nick-hogan-teacher-060808,0,750950.story

From article:
A former teacher accused of having sex with students sent a letter of support to the jailed son of Hulk Hogan, authorities said.

Stephanie Ragusa, who is also in jail, sent the letter June 2 to 17-year-old Nick Bollea, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

The letter was intercepted by Pinellas County sheriff's deputies after they recognized Ragusa's name, the jail's return address and her docket number on the envelope, authorities said. Bollea, who is serving an eight-month sentence on a charge of reckless driving with serious bodily injury, was later given a copy of the letter.

Ragusa, 29, is facing charges of lewd or lascivious battery and unlawful sexual activity with a minor. The telephone at the office of Ragusa's attorney rang unanswered Saturday.

Wonder if she's looking for some fresh meat......
 
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Former teacher Stephanie Ragusa pleaded guilty today to having sex with two middle school students.

Ragusa, who taught at Davidsen Middle School, faces up to 10 years in state prison and 10 years of probation when she is sentenced June 15.
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Ragusa was arrested in March 2008.

She was rearrested the next month and accused of having sex with the 16-year-old student.

In that case, which had not been set for trial, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe had granted a defense motion to suppress racy text messages Ragusa exchanged with the boy.

Tharpe agreed investigators improperly obtained the texts from Ragusa's cell phone records.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/12/121044/ragusa-court/
Prosecutor Rita Peters said Ragusa had intercourse with the 14-year-old on three occasions between October 2006 and May 2007. Evidence in that case included a phone conversation police recorded with the teen's consent. During the phone call, Ragusa could be heard urging him to keep their encounters secret, Peters said.

Peters said the encounters with the other teen began when he was 15. They ended when she was arrested in April 2008 as she was leaving his home. Evidence in the case included DNA matches, several amorous letters Ragusa wrote and gifts she gave him, the prosecutor added. The gifts included a key chain with her initials on it.

Peters said investigators also found a will in Ragusa's handwriting that named the teen as executor.

Shackled and dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Ragusa entered her guilty pleas just before a jury was to be picked at her trial.

Ragusa repeatedly glanced at her father, Ricardo Ragusa, as details of the charges were read aloud in court. Tears welled in her eyes, and she shrugged her shoulders, ducked her head and hid her face beneath a veil of long, dark brown hair.
[...]

Ragusa has been in jail since her arrest, and defense attorney Robert Herce said she has spent more time behind bars than several other teachers in Hillsborough County, Florida, who have faced similar charges.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/florida.teacher.student.sex/index.html?hpt=T2
 
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"I never intended to harm anyone."

In a Hillsborough courtroom Monday, Stephanie Ragusa asked the judge for mercy.
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Judge Chet Tharpe sided with the victims in this case, calling Ragusa arrogant and selfish. "You have disgraced yourself, family and the teaching profession," Tharpe said.

He sentenced Ragusa to 10 years in prison and 15 years of strict probation - the maximum allowed by the plea deal.

Ragusa's attorney said, his clients behavior before the trial didn't help her. "The big aggravating factor while out on bond for a sexual offense was that she has got caught at one of the kids' house."
[...]

The sentence was a stunner, especially in light of cases like Debra LaFave. She is the teacher whose lawyer called her too pretty for prison after having sex with a student. She was sentenced to just three years of house arrest.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/custom/story.aspx?storyid=135020&catid=20
Ragusa herself stood before the judge and, in a quivering voice, thanked her family and friends for support before apologizing.

"I stand here today willing to take responsibility for my actions," she said. "I'm sincerely sorry for the pain and aggravation I have caused to the victims and their families."

But her words were not enough to sway the judge to lighten her sentence. Judge Tharpe blasted Ragusa as "arrogant" and "selfish."
[...]

"I honestly believe, Ms. Ragusa, that you are a sexual predator and I honestly believe that you are a danger to the children in this community."
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/ne...stephanie-ragusa-gets-decade-in-prison-062810
 
Well I guess they just don't find Stephany the pretty type huh?/




&& jeez what a train wreck! and here I am thinking I was bad with a long list of stupid shit and accomplishments.
She needs to get her life back on track and wake up to the 30 yr olds her own age. Let the minors reach puberty, shiiit. :dong:
 
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